Great White Shark encounter whilst Kayak Fishing, Urunga, NSW, Australia
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Had an awesome encounter with a very large Great White Shark in the kayak this morning. The footage kicks in after it had circled me once already and I decided to move away...unfortunately she decided to give chase, she was very curious. Such an awesome experience, I've caught small Sharks in the past, had juvenile Bull Sharks cruise past the yak in local estuaries...but nothing like this Beast. The last part of the footage was taken by Dave Barwise after I moved over near him, he caught some awesome footage of the Shark checking me out. Please excuse the language, panicked breathing and shaky footage...but I'm sure considering what happend you can understand my excitement and fear. Side note - please no stupid comments about killing sharks, I don't condone or agree to the culling of any Sharks. These type of Apex Predators are to be admired and respected, its their backyard...I'm only visting. Enjoy, KG 👍🦈 PS - the fishing was slow..so this was an exciting way to cap off the morning.
I look at and analyze and observe all animals and pets objectively, neutrally. No one is better or higher or lower then another.
Idk maybe get out his yard
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What’s wrong with it?
I shat in it.
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best part about it is I don't believe it to be a staged shark sighting like all the shark week bullshit.
great video and the 129 thumbs down are morons.
they can literally hunt you in a kayak.
RELEASE THE KRAKEN!
the shark shit himself at the sight of humans
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F men in the grey suit..
Chee Hoo!
For a moment I thought he was going to call the police.
Dude! He was barely following you......
This is typical fat white man behaviour!
You were followed, not chased.
Having said that, I would've had a frickin heart attack if that had happened to me!!
I know Ronnie Pickering so piss off or else
Especially if s/he’d already been circling.
From the underwater footage it looks like s/he was probably curious rather than aggressive as your silhouettes would’ve looked different to seals or other standard white pointer prey so maybe just trying to suss out what you were - just lucky s/he wasn’t curious enough to take a bump or a test bite ....
Lord help us!
Give it the fish. Throw your rod out there and get to shore!
These animals are unpredictable. Yet somehow some self-proclaimed shark experts on the internet know exactly how this shark was behaving after a couple google searches and some couch time watching Shark Week on National Geographic.
Was surely an experience ! Great you could have film it and post it. ;)
It’s worth trying. It won’t hurt anything. If you can’t buy them in your area... they are super simple to make. Just potassium perchlorate and dark aluminum dust. Be safe out there! When you’re in small craft... Never trust a shark. Even if they seem docile.
Would have been a great privelage to share the water with a magnificent beast like a White Pointer.
Would be both brown water worthy as well as stop and stare.
Row hard.
Done fishing today mate.
Row!
Hell no get away from me dude
Honestly, what scared me the most was the slapping of the paddle on the water. For some reason, my instinct told me I’ve heard slapping the water is similar to a wounded animal. For all I know, and if put in the same moment I might have easily done the same thing.
"Oi Gary, theres sum fuckin humans up here!
"get fucked, your pullin' me leg cunt. Never seen a real human"
"bloody oath mate! two of 'em, come an have a look."
Cheers Tim
2 . Stick together!
3. Don’t bang water!
I was almost attacked by shark too.
Fuck I hate sharks of all kinds.
That's what? 12-14 feet? There's a reason why I stay out of the water
Still, that's a big one, enough to cause serious problems.
Invest in an electric motor, either Torqueedo or Bigsby (cheaper)
It can get you out of trouble quicker.
Better to have one & not need it rather than need one & not have it.
What the fuck do you know asshole YouTube expert
because not for all the tea in china am i ever going to be out in the shark infested ocean pedaling around in a goddam bait bucket
i’m glad no one was hurt, but please leave me out of your darwin game
However yes, if he didn't panic and try to rush away and then splash water with a paddle to "scare" it...it might not have hung around as long
EST. Eight ft. Bull shark.
Was just about to step on it to retrieve my fish.
40 years fishing the Bay and it scared me how ferocious it was.... your MAD !!!!!
air ,(almost like a bus hit you) then coming down ( confused not understanding what happened ) and having one of your feet
land on the coarse skin of the shark, with your kayak now10 yards away and the monster swimming below , You better hope you had a leash
on your paddle in case you make it to the kayak . If your lucky, like I was , there will be a Thick Kelp Bed close by so you can
asses the damage to your body and to your kayak. When you decide to make a B line to the shore, you will feel alive.
And in my case frightened adding to that feeling . Making it to shore you might say " thats it, this is the second time i have
been knocked off my kayak By a Great White , I selling the Kayak " (After you repair it) Then in a short time the adrenaline will wear off and
you will realize that pain in your back is so bad you cant stand up .
Now I have seen several dozen juvenile great whites smaller than 8 feet , even had several 8' - 9' G.W.'sfollow me and circle . You ask how do
i know their length because my kayak was 12 feet long . The one that slammed into me was as big if not bigger than my kayak .
All I can say is there are more Great Whites now then they wanna admit, especially here in California. Your chances of
being attacked are good, if they habit your area. You know this. I was down 3- weeks because of my back .
I reported my attack to the Life guard then to sheriff department , they wouldn't take the report because no county official
seen the attack even though my kayak was on top of my Rover with bite marks into it. It makes me think just how many
attacks aren't being reported. If I had a go pro I could've went to the media and they would have to accept that
Be careful , think about a boat.
the public isnt aware or informed . Even with the sharks bite marks on my
kayak they wouldn't make a report because no city official seen it or injury ,
I was thinking maybe if I had a go pro and it somehow stayed on after the
impact , I could've shown the video to the press of even to the sheriff or
life guard. Im not sure if it being a cloudy day had anything to do with it
and the fact the water clarity is has gotten so horrible in the last 9-10 years,
I was thinking the shark was looking up and thought I was a seal or something
I dont know . It was like a bus hit me , and I will not Fish from a Kayak in the
ocean again ..
Researchers believe that they developed this technique as a way of overwhelming the seals and penguins they prey on which are often so fast and manoeuvrable they can elude capture using standard attack strategies - this discovery of regional variations in hunting technique also caused a reassessment of how we assess shark intelligence, since it proves they’re a lot smarter than had been assumed, are capable of learning and adapting their strategies to different prey.
Never encountered a white pointer in the wild but used to live in French Polynesia and Hawaii and have swum with bull sharks, lemon sharks and even tiger sharks (in ocean passes WHILE they were being fed by locals) which was the most amazingly spiritual experience of my entire life - those sharks all have very distinctive body language when they’re about to attack, not sure about white pointers tho.
Dude! You are way off.
They chew on dingings n have no problem knockin over a yaker to get a bite. But hey, I guess I’m not a shark week expert like yourself. (No space huh? Wow, you’re full of insight, aren’t ya. Lol)
However I do think you're correct and it didn't seem anything more than curious, but correct for the wrong reasons.
Had the opportunity to stroke a reasonably timid white there, still I'll bet that was a pretty exciting encounter because it's not uncommon to get a few in the same areas and when it takes a good while to gauge its intentions you can't help feeling like you've just been added to the menu.
Great video.
Sort of seems like your a fucking asshole?
It's about the size of a man's little finger !!
All it knows is eating and shagging ..
I wonder which one he had in mind for you ?
The great white footage from the 1990s with the young woman's leg being taken off, she was taken onto the cruise ship that was nearby and emergency first aid by a medical staff onboard is what saved her life! She went into cardiac arrest a few times and they brought her back, such massive blood loss. She truly is lucky to have gotten to a hospital still alive and to be alive in general, so many fatalities that have occurred are from above knee bites/amputations/groin area when the femoral artery is severed (takes only a couple minutes).
For anyone who thinks sharks will not attack...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubjFzqw9QKM(I apologize for the narrator who does a terrible job of it, but good examples of bull sharks attacking)
The very first one is a shark expert getting attacked by a bull shark after he had swam with them many times and thought he was safe because of that...
I also just remember seeing the shark glide towards her, the shark was moving so little yet easily caught her. It made me realize just how useless we are in the water.
I felt that again a 1 year after that when snorkeling off the great barrier reef. And had a parrot fish that was keen on taking off my nose, and defending myself from a parrotfish made me realize this is definitely not our home, as much as it feels right and beautiful in many ways, it is there home, and they can move much easier through it.
I have dived with reef sharks and learned a thing or two about what it is like when you cannot see what is below the surface of the water unless you put your head down in the direction you are worried about. Lots of reasons why I would not be at all interested in swimming with anything bigger than a 5-6 reef shark...
If you want to see stuff of horrors that backs this up. Search on the internet for the great white attack from many years ago that happened in australia with a bunch of snorklers, a great white came into a bunch of boats where tourists where swimming around, exactly like this, slow, and not in any hurry. One woman swam for the boat, it trailed behind her, and as she reached the boat it clamped down on her leg, which came right off as the people on the boat tried to help her into the boat. I believe she survived, minus a leg, and she was lucky to survive at all. I can't imagine how they stopped the bleeding but they must have had first aid aboard. But yea, they will attack humans, they are curious, and they are hungry, that is how they survive, they eat, all the time... Nothing wrong with that, they are amazing beautiful creatures, but she would attack if she saw an easy opportunity...
Not necessarily .. if they are not eating or having sex then they are just doing nothing like this old chap ...
Case closed .
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The photo of the lemon shark, is that by Jim Abernethy?
You can always try shark diving. I go each year and I always see people who are nervous/scared. 10 mins later they're having fun. I have a few videos from my shark diving trips. This past March I was surrounded by 6-7 Bull sharks. Check it out.
Jaws is the reason why sharks have a bad rep. The media has brainwashed lots of people into believing that sharks are these man eating machines when in reality they don't even like the taste of us. Our blood doesn't attract them as well, it's all a myth.
Although somewhat useful and good in theory. They're kinda gimmicky and just for peace of mind. I've tried spearfishing with one and sharks honestly don't give the slightest fuck about it if you leave it on. You can see it bother them if you turn it on suddenly around them....so it's useful to have off and be ready to turn on, but at the end up of the day most of the time if you're gonna get attacked, you're not gonna see it coming. So it's useless