Swimmers Get a Close Encounter with Great White Shark: They Had No Idea
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ต.ค. 2024
- In this Episode, we take a look at one of the most hair raising white shark encounters I've filmed this summer. When a group of swimmers is enjoying their day, a shark with a reputation for getting close to humans comes extremely close to the swimmers. It is a shark I am familiar with, featured in a previous video, this shark has an injury that makes you wonder if an injured shark is more likely to approach humans.
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CHAPTERS
00:00:48 Big great white shark approached by a paddleboarder
00:02:27 Big shark reacts to paddleboard. Tries to turn the tables.
00:03:24 Swimmers unknowingly approached by great white shark
00:06:53 I film a great white shark just feet away but can't see it
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Here's the previous video that discusses the shark that is injured and is showing a tendency to get close to humans. th-cam.com/video/XOXAlvM4j8E/w-d-xo.htmlsi=_RWOrreL82T6oaLW
thanks i didn't get notified by youtube about this video. it was an interesting watch.
Betcha, they won't be oblivious when they watch this
Your premise and hypothesis are faulty. To isolate the question you are asking , do injured sharks approach humans more frequently than non injured sharks? You would first have to control for the variable question: Are the injured sharks more likely to come the population of uninjured sharks that approach humans more readily or from the population of uninjured sharks that don’t approach humans so readily?
@@jdenmark1287 that's exactly what I was pondering - it seems plausible that more curious sharks are not only more likely to approach humans, but more likely to get close enough to boats to make injury a risk.
its most likely that this shark got injured because it curious of humans.
I think the work you've done documenting these types of encounters has done more for shark education and disproving the idea that these are all mindless man eating monsters, than anyone has ever done before. Keep it up
That close encounter with the kids was definitely a nail biting moment. Credit to the shark for not making this a Jaws moment.
I feel the same.
He was just swing by to ask a few people if they recognize this propeller.
"Credit to the shark"?
What a bizarre statement. If it was hungry it would have attacked. You do not give credit to a fish for not being hungry.
@@TheMalibuArtist It seems to follow the 'shark v shark' protocol where it tries to stay away from the toothy end of the other animal, and keep the potential threat in view. Didn't that biologist Erich Ritter say that sometimes humans can bring an attack up on themselves unintentionally, because they triggered the shark's instincts? Kind of like dogs will chase cars and bicycles; That being said, it looks like the shark is trying to assert it's authority over those two paddle boarders
@@USCFlash Living beings don't have to be hungry to attack. There are several possible reasons why it could be aggressive but the shark still didn't attack - so why not give it credit for that?
you should have a shark alarm / sign on your drone lol
I busted my ankle a few years back and for rehab I started swimming, after getting pool fit I started ocean swimming so I could stretch out further, I'd be careful about going out just past the breakers near the flags where all the people were, I'd do laps up and down the beach for a couple of hundred yards, I also got my dive certificate so had a good understanding about sharks. Lately there's been more attacks over here in Au so I was becoming a bit more vigilant always keeping an eye behind me and tried to be a smooth as possible with minimum splash. One day I was preparing on the beach with my fins to swim out around a deep water bouy that the surf boats were using about 300 yards out, just as I put a foot in the water the shark alarm went off and I went and talked to the patrol, they said a bull shark had been spotted out near the bouy, if I'd got in 15 min earlier I would haven been out there with it and a bully ain't what you want to bump into all alone. This spooked me enough to reconsider my fitness program to more gym orientated equipment lol
Daaamn, you're super brave to even have considered swimming out in the ocean like that :D I wish I had the balls to do it, so I stick with diving instead, at least you can see "more" of what might be lurking behind you :D
Those are the bane of shallow water bay fishermen around here. A coworker once got bit by a bull shark doing just that, fishing in the bays and estuaries this side of the big barrier islands comon out here. From then on, he was known as Sharkbait, and when he called me, a picture of a bull shark came on my phone.
Yikes! When you go diving, get those goggles that have eyes on the back of your head too!
I’m sure the salt water is nice to swim in for many reasons but not worth the risk…
@@miguelurrutdarkorangefan2750well if you are fishing in the water in or near an estuary, you needn’t wait until you are bitten to name yourself shark bait, or “a few sharks short of a happy meal”.
When I first moved to Australia from the UK I felt so confident swimming in the ocean. Now that I've lived here for almost 6 years and I've been paying attention to all the shark attacks, I really don't feel comfortable going past knee deep water now. The video of that guy that got eaten by a shark near Sydney a few years ago and the video of the Russian guy that got eaten in Egypt has really messed me up. Ignorance is bliss, I honestly wish I'd never done so much research on this stuff because now when I get in the ocean all I can see are flashes of people being EATEN by another animal, it's wild.
Could his injury make it more difficult to hunt his natural prey? Making him more interested in “slower” easier prey. Sad about his injury, but it seems like often in the wild, animals are more prone to targeting easier perhaps more un-natural prey when sick or injured. Kind of scary he appears to be approaching humans with more frequency. I seldom comment on videos, but yours are truly amazing, beautiful, and informative. Thank you for all your great work!
I thought the same thing, thinking of the attack on Vladmir Popov where the tiger shark had a physical deformity that made hunting more difficult for it.
@@leelee2350 That was gruesome!
@@suzyjak6177 Yes, it was very sad for both the person killed and the shark which was later killed.
@@leelee2350what kind of physical deformity did the shark have in egypt? Read about rumors but no facts.
@@behnix7766 I can't remember the exact details, I think it was something to do with one of its fins that would affect its speed. When they autopsied it, it was very malnourished. The only "food" in it was body parts from Vladmir.
I honestly don't get why people swim so far away from the shore/beach. Especially knowing the presence of sharks in Malibu. You can take a dip in the ocean, cool down and thats it. Not swim 200+ feet away.
Because people are taught things about sharks that aren’t true. Like they mistake surfers for seals etc.
Sharks bite because they have no hands.
Literally. This is how they interact with the world, is with their mouth. So don't be something interesting to them, or else.
@@TheJustinJStop that old theory already! They have no interest is investigating things.They bite when they're hungry, as simple as that.The only reason they don't like humans is because of the clothes and wet suits. Not because of human bones as they say. They love to eat seals that have stronger and more dense bone structure than humans.
Go see my free diving alone
Once the shark realized those kids were too young to be the owner of the boat that him he continued his hunt elsewhere.
How would a shark have knowledge of human boat owners? How would it come to conclusions about the party(s) responsible for its injury?
@@jmalexander131don’t take life so seriously bro. It’s obviously a joke
I thought is was pretty...😅
Classic revenge story of Jaws franchise and Orca. He was making light of the potentially nail biting moment.
@@jmalexander131oh dear. Ol literal Jim over here.
Holy crap i thought I was going to pass out from holding my own breath watching how close that shark got to the swimmers. It's such a visceral reaction that I jad just watching that.
Thank you for sharing such breathtaking (literally) footage and please stay safe while doing this using yourself as the swimmer or boarder. 🙏
Hope this shark is fine 💗 thank you for your work, greetings from Poland 😍
My heart is pounding. Lucky day for the unknowing swimmers. They should buy lottery tickets.
Nah this sort of interaction will happen all over the world on a daily basis. Without anyone knowing about it.
If they had been attacked, they'd have been closer to lottery winning values, statistically speaking. Not that either chance would actually influence the other...
I would be out of my mind with fright if I saw that size shark below my paddleboard. 🤣
Another great, albeit hair-raising, Great White video. ❤🦈
I would imagine the shark with an injoury, may stay closer to shore while recovering, hunting easyer fish in shallows, may make it look like its aproaching people, but they are swiming along the coast hunting fish, people just happen to be in their way at some swiming and surfing places, is what i see happening.
Good theory
Maybe... or: that shark remembers the boat running him over and now has an eternal grudge against boats but not against humans but knows humans and boats are connected and is trying to piece the puzzle together to figure out how to exact his revenge.
And feasibly this injury is a consequence of a more curious shark getting closer to people.
I don't think animals are familiar with revenge/resentment/retribution.
Those are the domain of the human
That paddle boarder was way too close to that shark. He was practically on top of him. I understand being curious, but c'mon. I think that bothered me more than the shark approaching the swimmers.
I agree. But it is also demonstrative of how chill they can be around humans. I don't imagine a wild bear or lion would tolerate a human getting that close.
@@jogglehead Until they're not. Pattern behavior doesn't mean predictable behavior.
Agreed.
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Darwin Award nominees for sure
Thanks!
Oh man! Thanks so much. Seriously can't thank you enough.
Watched dozens of these videos in total awe and never commented, but it has to be said: Thanks for documenting these incredible encounters in a way no one did before. Amazing educational value, love your channel. Lots of love.
that is some incredible footage - I held my breath when the shark was almost in between the swimmers - I was afraid for the girl a bit on the side swimming but it shows how uninterested a GW shark is once he investigated and confirmed that it is human. As long as we don't overfish their prey I believe that we can coexist with respect for each other easily.
I love that you share these videos and show people that GWS are not the monsters people think they are.
The shark swimming toward those girls actually made me nervous.
Yes, you may not be a trained, credentialed marine biologist, but WOW the work you're doing is amazing! There is no doubt that your body of work is now, and becoming more and more every day, groundbreaking in the field of shark studies. And THANK YOU.
Another fantastic video, but this one was a little scary too. It would be interesting to hear a reaction from those swimmers if they ever stumbled upon your video.
Yeah, this one had my heart pounding watching it live. Thanks!
More beautiful shark footage Carlos. 🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈
I noticed that mark on that shark's back and I thought "is that that shark that was hit by a boat?" and it was. The wound looks almost completely healed. Sharks do have amazing healing capabilities. Maybe this shark slightly struggles to find food and it could be more curious as a result? Oceanic white tip sharks are known to investigate anything out of the ordinary. Oceanic white tip sharks live where food is hard to find.
Even when the humans do everything wrong (splashing around like a dying prey item and not paying attention to the animal), sharks are very good at understanding people aren't food.
apples are food but youre not interested in apples when youre full
Imagine being those ppl that had zero clue about a big Great White being that close to them, only to be scrolling YT later and realizing that they are the ones in the video. I would imagine that would be a pretty big “Oh shit” moment lol!
Great work as always!
Great commentry. You're getting better with every video. Thank you.
Your videos are second to none. Absolutely the best. Fingers crossed we can save these magnificent creatures.
Great work, my friend. Thank you for putting out intelligent, content observing the natural behavior of sharks rather than sensationalized material.
Loved this video so much! I’m used to just watching your awesome instagram videos but you’re an amazing narrator and I am ready to watch your future shark documentary! I love how you are neutral as well in the way you describe their behavior. I hope you do get to find the injured shark again and we can learn more from him.
WOW!!! That was my worst nightmare! The very reason I do not swim in the ocean! Seeing your drone would fricken me out knowing what it means!! Good work!
I fear for the outcome of this particular sharks continued curiousity in humans in the water. I hope I'm wrong but it's because of your channel, that spotting atypical behaviour is now possible. Incrdible (and scary) footage. Thanks for shaing, Carlos.
Thank you for sharing. Very awesome footage 🤘💪
Incredible footage, great work as always!
Oh my gosh!!!! Is this a common occurrence to where Great Whites approach swimmers without the swimmers even knowing?? Because all you see on the media is how the shark, or Great Whites just swim up and attack swimmers all the time. Great video. Love all of your work. Thanks
I love these videos showing unaware people close to sharks, dude. Please keep them coming!!
Great images & smart observations and comments! Thanks
Breathtaking Footage 👍Thank You for sharing your Knowledge and Experiences with Us 🙏❤️🙏
Good to see the injury is healing up.
Another amazing video Carlos! Thank you again!
Amazing footage !
Thank you !
A drone with a speaker seems like it would be helpful. But knowing humans, panic may set in. Which as we know, may set off some of that ampullae. "Attention! Attention! Don't be alarmed. Please swim casually towards shore or towards the other swimmers in your party. There is a huge great white shark coming right for you! Please stay calm." :)
LOL
Holy sh*t I had my heart in my throat. That shark had a smorgasbord of easy pickings and still chose not to even try. Not the man eating monsters they are made out to be.
Yeah, for sure! Filming it as it happened was heart pounding too.
@@TheMalibuArtist I can't even imagine what you go through seeing that in real time and not knowing the outcome.
@@TheMalibuArtist What part of the world was this ?
Your videos a clearly reinforcing just why attacks are so rare.
This was insane! thanks for another great video
Wow. Great footage and a bit nerve racking this time since the shark was an injured shark.
just goes to show , white sharks are not all bad . great video .
I suspect the hungrier they are the less cautious they get. If a shark is wounded i suspect it's hunting is negatively effected. Great whites from what i've seen from a lifetime of watching various documentaries, seem to have "seasonal" or "regional" diets, and little interest in things outside of those prey items. But every video i've seen of the west/south coast of australia when male white sharks are involved they seem hyper aggressive toward people. I don't know... but it does raise questions. when are white sharks most dangerous to people? is it personality based? diet based? region based? gender based? aged based? health based? or is it just random predation or curiosity?
Mr Boat Prop wound might just be a curious shark. (btw it's amazing how much of that wound has healed) or he might be an injured and hungry shark... or he might be a mostly blind shark... or...
I love the content. this was an interesting video. it's really amazing how fast that shark closed the distance to those people. I get why you were getting nervous.
I recall watching a docco up at the Farallons by the team that filmed the white sharks up there. As they put it, some sharks are totally chill about humans being around 'em; some don't care; some are shy and some see the lures used to bring them to the surface and they just aren't having it.
Those videos about australian white sharks are totally biased imo. That regiom is by far where more interactions between humans and adult gws happen. So, is statistically where most of the attacks happen. But if you think in all the close encounters happening every year (being not hundreds but thousans probably) and the amount of victims, you cannot think that there is an special reason besides just the number of interactions.
The only videos you can look at to figure out how those sharks really behave are non invasive ones. Drone videos basically.
I'm not saying all the factors you mention are not a reason to explaim if sharks attacks more or not, but I think the numbers are the main factor. The grown state of the shark is probably the most important from those you mention, but not sure if is a game changer. In the california coast there are many sharks big enought to kill a human effortlessly, and looks like it's extrely rare to happen.
The region is more a human factor I think. How those incidents are taken by the communities and the mass media here ane there.
Totally agree and great thought provoking questions. I also was wondering if the prop shark hadn’t been “chummed” and maybe has previously had some form of food related interaction with boats/humans.
As a biiiiig fan of everything sharks and this channel, your comment made me smile: I have asked myself the same questions!! Since always watching all these documentaries though and seeing how Carlos really contributes scientifically with the knowledge picked up from the drone, how coooool would it be if he flew to Australia to film Great Whites to see if there really is a big difference? I would stream the heeeelll outta that :D
Were you able to find those swimmers later to show them your video?
no. I was too far away.
@@TheMalibuArtistThat’s too bad. I’d love to hear their reactions.
How come you never show the shore so we can see where it is?
@@kellymahoney3847 He did that previously. Unfortunately the attention it brought was troublesome!
@@kellymahoney3847 read you question again and you'll find you answer ;)
Thank you. ❤
Love your drone videos
Great work, thankyou for sharing !
Tremendo documento! Gracias.
beautiful creatures.
Outstanding work! Thank you for this and all your videos
That boat injury is how villains are made...
Wow! Speachless.
Thanks for the footage.
Stunning footage...
Many thanks!
Wow! That is amazing. I'm glad we are coexisting.
Excellent work!
Amazing. Thanks for sharing
Woah, that's such amazing footage, that was incredibly close.
Do you usually film at the same beaches? Almost surprised how clueless they were about your attempt to inform/warn them about the shark, but i guess with how many people there are it makes sense that most won't recognize your drone.
the shark might have responded differently if the swimmers knew and panicked.
Awesome content! Thank you.
Jeeeesus that was a close one. The first thing I'd do if I saw a drone close would be to get back to the beach asap - but saying that I've seen your videos since more or less the start hahah
Thats consistent with my - relatively insignificant - contact with great whites in the water. Ive been under the surface of the water in shallow waters and twice had very large great whites cruise straight past me within touching distance without stopping or deviating from their courses, although in both cases the underwater visibility wasnt great so I dont know what they were doing before and after I saw them. In both cases I was busy getting out of the water after they passed me, so I wasnt exactly looking where they went at that point, anyway.
The rest of my contacts with great whites have been from the comfort of boat decks. While I love great whites, I prefer to see them from boat decks and not while Im in the water.
I used to live in a coastal town here in western australia. We had a dolphin observation group and one of the local big male dolphins - named Fin - had no dorsal fin. It was taken clean off fairly low down. Most believed a shark had taken it, but I actually observed him on a number of occasions surfing the propellor wave of motor boats in the estuary entrance and getting frighteningly close to the propellors. So I believe he lost his dorsal fin to a boat propellor, not a shark. That injury to that great white might be the result of the same sort of curiousity and the adventurous spirit of that shark. As an additional point, the pod that Fin was generally associated with was very familiar with people and would swim in close and fish along the estuary and canal walls. I have been circled by a number of dolphins on occasions while swimming with my dog at the local beach. I used to swim out with my (large) dog and float with him on my chest and that seemed to make them curious. On each occasion theyd surface behind me and swim around my on their sides within touching distance for a while. Sometimes when theyd swim off my dog would try to swim out after them.
Thank you for your videos.
Hello there. Amazing content
Have you considered putting some kind of alarm at your drone to alert people about shark position? Also to have a direct line with coast guard to inform.
I really like your videos, I can hear your passion and see the magnificent of the sharks.
Ooof, that was quite scary! I am glad nothing happened, and I hope the shark heals quickly and learns to stay away from humans, before anything happens (to it or to a human)!
The other close encounters were amazing, too! 🦈🦈🦈
That was crazy !!!
That was truly an amazing video
The way that shark just decided to let everyone live to see another day is well all I can say is thank you shark.
I’m wondering *why* an injured shark would approach humans over and over again. My heart was in my throat watching this video. Thank you for all the time and hard work you put into these videos Carlos. Once again, fantastic footage!
Thank you so much for the comment and support. I totally appreciate it Athena.
This was a fascinating video. I do wonder if Half-Fin's habit of approaching people is similar in motive to other injured predators; easier prey.
With the paddleboarders.... what an amazing, beautiful, scary!!! experience!! And the swimmers--holy moly!!!! My first thought on the injured shark was that it was acting like the injured lions etc. Because they can't hunt as affectively, they go after "easy" prey like humans. The injured shark could have easily taken one of the swimmers but it chose not to. Your videos have definitely proven that sharks are NOT the killing machines folks make them out to be.
is that injured shark getting closer each time though? As that would be a bit of a worry as it is getting braver
I don't have enough data to conclude that. I have to keep documenting it to find out.
@@TheMalibuArtist I notice a trend of these great whites figuring out which end of the watercraft is the front and back, and circling to the rear, to simply trail the kayak/boat/paddleboard. I imagine (with these sharks showing proof of being very close to boat props) that this is behavior learned by following fishing boats that leave snacks for these sharks in their wake. Seems like they're simply linking human watercraft (paddleboards or whatever) to potential food. Like bears in the woods when they learn campers keep tasty treats in cars and tents.
@@Point_ParticleI was also surprised how quickly it assessed which was the front of the slow moving kayak.
My blood pressure has increased significantly! ;)
going out into the water is a new level. good luck. there's a guy in australia that seems to have a friendly shark following his boat around. fascinating.
I love this type of video. It goes to show how incredible and non-aggressive sharks really are. If people got that close to bears or lions it probably wouldn’t end well. But these close encounters are fairly common with sharks without incident. However they need to be respected and that paddleboarder was way too close. It’s interesting to witness shark and human behaviour in these instances. Thank you for these videos 🙏 ❤
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Wait is that the same one that had wounds healing then got new wounds?! If so, its healing so well!🎉🎉
This shark is healing rapidly.
@TheMalibuArtist it really is! Salt water helps my skin so much, so ive always known it's healing, but my goodness🤯 thats basically magic, I cant believe how fast he's healing! 🙌
@@AKbaby89 To my knowledge, sharks have better healing capacities than humans - lucky them 😊
It's pretty obvious that these sharks associate watercraft with potential food opportunities. Not the humans aboard being food, but what commonly accompanies watercraft: fishing, or chummed waters for tourism diving, etc.
Well fishing craft will bring fish up, resulting in blood, vibrations etc being generated thru the water for decades now. I'd be willing to say that 'stealing a meal' from a fisherman is probably second nature to sharks.
Love your channel
Great work
I really didn't want to ruin the 420 comments but I wanted to say thank you for making these videos
I'm glad the Phoenix is still doing okay. I hope they'll continue to survive.
This was an amazing footage. I wonder why the shark was not interested in the humans. Those people were lucky.
you need to fit a little speaker that plays a warning message on that drone for the scary close situations....
Love your content ♥️🦈
I hope those people see this video! Holy crap! 😅
Sharks Happen another fantastic fact based channel on TH-cam.
Great video. I would think with all the technology that the drones will have something that you can show a video of yourself communicating to people. So that way you can communicate with people and day , shark. Maybe somebody should come out with that technology
Just ask the shark himself if he approaches human with more frequency because of his injuries! I'm sure by now that shark knows you and understands English 🙈😁. Great filming 🤗
as a surfer my whole life i will never go back in so cal waters surfing again after seeing this channel
You may need to put a led signboard on your drone that lights up "SHARK" when you want to warn someone.
great video,i think it is slowly guaging if they are a potential easy food source....do you think it could be maybe that the shark has learnt to find easy food sources after it's injury...methinks it's only a matter of time before that shark may test bite a human in that area
I absolutely love your work! Thanks so much for seeing these majestic creatures in a neutral way and documenting their lives. One q: where was this filmed (sorry if that’s obvs)? Thanks again and keep up the great work ✊🏻🦈❤
That was so scary!😮
That poor shark harmed by a boat propeller.
This happens far more frequently than people realize -- especially in certain areas like Cape Cod, Mass., Florida's central Atlantic coast, North Carolina's Outer Banks and certain areas of South Africa and Australia. If you're swimming in one of those locations, it's a safe bet there's at least one shark close by. It's also a safe bet they will want nothing to do with you.
Carlos, have you considered adding a speaker to your drone to alert swimmers of a sharks presence? 🦈 💙