Great White Shark Surprises Solitary Surfer at Trails. Surfing at the Bluffs Campground in San Onofre State Park San Clemente / Camp Pendleton in Southern California.
I was surprised because I've been surfing that spot for over 20 years and have seen many sharks glide by without the slightest interest in me. This location is a known Great White nursery, all the sharks I have seen have been less than 8 feet, most around 6 feet. None has ever given me a second thought and if they keep on going I've kept on surfing. Prior to this video, I was always on a shortboard which sits about a foot deeper in the water. It doesn't slap the water like the long boards do. Maybe the slapping noise caused this shark to investigate. In any case, I was definitely surprised when this one abruptly turned right at me. (I should mention that we do have very rare adult or sub-adult Great Whites in this stretch of coastline. I haven't seen one, but if I do, I'll be riding the next wave in.)
I think it’s fair to say that he was surprised that he saw a shark, not that he was surprised that there was a ‘shark in the ocean.’ Let’s be honest, they’re not exactly common to see are they?
Born and raised in Hawaii, I’ve encountered a shark several times when I surfed. Just gotta stay calm and hope the faka no bite you. One time I had to swim for canoe to canoe during practice. The canoes where about 100 feet apart and I had to swim to the other one and we’re at the entrance of the bay, the deepest part, and I hop off and as I’m swimming my coach yells there’s a tiger shark next to me, did my best to swim smoothly so it didn’t look like I was a dying or injured sea animal 😂
What a stupid comment. It's not like you see a shark every day. If you did, thousands of people would be dying every day. To say you were surprised doesn't necessarily mean you didn't think it was possible. My mother surprised me at 3am in the kitchen this morning because she is never up at that hour. Get it?
No seriously. I’ve surged there and the locals told me they’re very used to seeing the sharks or feeling them bump them but they just try not to react. Beautiful beach!! Great people too.
I’ll never forget the time in high school when me and one of my best friends decided to compete with each other to see who could swim out to one of the buoy’s first. The buoy was out farther than we originally thought so we decided to hold onto it and rest for a little, and as we were we suddenly saw and then felt a huge dark object beneath us. We panicked at first but then were relieved to realize it was just a sea lion! He decided to rest at our buoy and was actually very cute up close, but I won’t be swimming out that far ever again lol.
What do you kids think this is? Stranded deep? A buoy means you may want turn back with your boat. Are you Russian? Sounds like something a Russian would do. 🤔
One swam under my board while and surfaced not too far from us. I was 100 % convinced it was a shark. I had to get back to shore because it scared the living shit out of me.
@@Mr.SmileyGlow Same here. I lived in Florida for 8 years and one day when I was standing in waist deep water on Sanibel Island. I saw a couple fins sticking out of the water coming right at me. Before I could even turn around and head to the shore two dolphins came right up by my legs and brushed against me herding some bait fish. In that half a minute I really thought I was going to die or at least be maimed and crippled
I used to surf alone, way out the back of a beach in Port Stephens, Australia. I surfed this place for about 12 years. Then a guy doing research on Great Whites started pulling in and tagging Great White juveniles. In one month he tagged 48 of the buggers, and they were over 2 metres long. I was shocked. Then I started thinking where is Mum and Dad. Never surfed that spot again.
I used to surf alone sometimes off Perth beaches even into dark at sunset ...that was 70s and 80s..you couldn't pay me enough to swim off Perth waters now after so many people have been eaten in recent yrs
@@ACDZ123 shark population has decreased, you would've been more at risk in the 70s and 80s, goes to show how unlikely it really is to be attacked considering how many adult great whites you were probably in close contact with without knowing
@Jayke Brown yeah I don't know if that's correct that shark populations have decreased..sharks are protected these days unlike the 70s when they were hunted to the point of extinction. That's a big claim you're making
@@ACDZ123 First source I found from google states the following We find that, globally, the abundance of oceanic sharks declined by 71.1% (95% credible interval, 63.2-78.4%) (Fig. 1) from 1970 to 2018 So a 71.1% decrease from the 70s.
I actually use this axiom to sort of build up my confidence I think of all the times I've been surfing, and assume I've safely shared the water with sharks plenty
@@arsaeterna4285 indeed, if you ever see people drone footage of the coast of California, you will regularly see multipule white sharks swimming around in the surf surrounded by people, those people just have no idea there is a white shark like 6 feet away from them. it's funny because people freak out when they know there is a shark in the water, but in relaity, there is probably one not far from you every time you go out there.
sh4rk b4it There is a lot of hate for sharks, and certainly, they do attack people (I’m an Aussie, and there are several fatal shark attacks here every year, and that’s excluding the many non-fatal), but the reality is, if those sharks wanted to actually eat the people that they bit, then there would be no actual body to recover. If a shark wanted to eat a person, it’d just fucking eat the person! Sharks are big, and have a massive bite force with hundreds of teeth that do a lot of damage, but if you actually see the shark before it bites you, you’re probably going to be fine, as it already knows you’re not dinner, and more often than not (even though it’s probably little consolation), once it’s taken an investigation bite, it’ll realise you’re way too lean, and far too bony, and it’ll move on...of course, that one bite may remove a limb. But hey, it’s got no hands to see if you’re a seal, or a turtle. Sharks are amazing creatures. We’re killing them in their millions, and they don’t deserve the bad rap.
Sharks overall kill around 5 people a year. Global population of surfers is somwhere between 17 to 30 million people. Doesn't seem like a huge risk to be honest. But hur hur, that one movie says that sharks are just evil, twisted killing machines so ocean must be a deathtrap because Jaws and every other movie with sharks is a perfect reflection of reality!
Hey, I could be killed by a stray bullet or in a car accident tomorrow. Might as well enjoy one of the things I love the most in life. If you've never been surfing, you're right, you can't understand
Does the risk of driving sound like a great risk? Or getting a drink on the van machine? Many many times more people die because of cars and vending machines than sharks.
I've been a scuba diver for over 20 years, I was a helicopter pilot for the Navy for several years, and I took up flying drones as a hobby a few years ago. If people had a clue, most would not get back in the ocean. Ignorance is bliss.
I had the exact same experience in the ocean once. I got “test bumped” by a shark before.... I was thrown off my air mattress many feet into the air.... I shit my bathing suit when I realized no one else was in the water with me...
@@Baneslayer where did this happen? I would have ran across the water 😂 Where i live the scariest things are some non harmful jelly fish in the ocean lol
Southern Cali beaches are pretty safe. I swim at Huntington Beach, Newport, and laguna all the time with no incidents. You make it seem as if it is Florida or Australia which do have a high amount of shark attacks.
Global Dayz really because there has been only one fatal attack of the west coat in years that happened in my hometown . Solana Beach Ca . Care of mistaken identity.
Also there’s a need of education about sharks guys. The major part of the shark attacks can be avoided in some ways, for example: swim or surf with at least one person if you’re not sure it’s safe, don’t go into the water if it’s dirty because of the rain, when you wait for a wave turn your board in different directions because from the bottom you look like a predator and not like an injured or dead animal in the surface, if there’s one close avoid slapping the water when swimming, the first is not to attract their attention. But if they come, you need to remain calm, you can change their curse by putting your hand on their nose and turn them to other side if not attacking, and if they attack, aim your fingers to their eyes because they are so sensible. Obviously there’s the need of being cold minded and everything.
@@rubencortes4793 exactly I live in south Florida and if you are educated on the habitat and animals, you kinda just go with mother nature. My back yard has gators too. We do have more incidents though, especially with all the species of animals. Florida fish and wildlife. Good to eat as well.
Happened to me in South Africa.. Just a wee lad of 14 and learning to body board. Anyway, there was a great set out and everyone was heading to the beach. Got out and paddled to the waves and then suddenly saw a dark cloud go through a wave. Of course you think it’s your mind playing tricks on you… but it happened again. The shore line wasn’t close by so start booking it back and shouting at everyone coming in “there’s a shark there’s a shark”. Got the the shoreline and one of my buddies who had seen what I’d seen said. “Did you see it did you see it”!? One of the local walked by and said “you guys are idiots, that’s not a shark it’s a dolphin”
"Mark returned home, only to find out his wife was cheating with Dale the whale...with no friend to turn to, Mark filled up a tub with water...and commited suicide, the end" No man, glad you got out of the way, else it would be a lot harder watching the video :p
hey, that's funny (and sort of sad,) but I think your right, Mark (the shark - good name, you should do a kids book,) unfortunately, is a solitary creature doomed to roam the sea on his own :-( but he could have some cool adventures :-)
Hi Centre Mental, glad you're joining me on this one. Maybe we should do a kids book together!? We could in fact, but only if you can come up with another name that rhymes with shark. Also, kids would like a happy ending (not to be confused with the happy ending you would receive after a massage), so maybe you should lighten up, contact me and we'll make things happen!
@@blackporscheroadster-yw8hb I didn't mean it like that lol. Usually, the shark would be more cautious if the creature looks bigger or more intimidating.
Trust me buddy, you’ve been closer. That’s just the closest you’ve seen. They are all around us out there... thankfully sharks tend to leave humans alone for the most part.
Russian roulette. If I was a shark I would eat humans because they are so easy to catch. We are definitely good food for them. Perhaps at times they are focused on their usual food, but I would never gamble my life on it because you wouldn’t stand even a slim chance if it decided to attack. There are deaths and feeding on people from bears, people who think they really don’t want to eat us.
@@AndrewJamesMcQuinn usually that’s a last resort when animals are starving and all their prey are scarce. There’s a story from WW II where Soviet and nazi forces allied together temporarily to fight of man eating wolves. There were also other attacks on civilians the preceded the event. These incidents are collectively called the Kirov Wolf attacks. Supposedly, any dogs and cattle had dwindled to the point where the only widely available food source was…humans. Particularly children.
@@AndrewJamesMcQuinn sharks don't like the taste of humans. Usually they take a single bite, and quickly let go because we taste bad to them. Granted....a single bite can usually be pretty severe, especially if the shark is big. But, for the most part, sharks will leave humans alone unless A) they feel threatened, B) we accidentally STEP on them (more common than you might think on beaches), or C) they are SEVERELY hungry to the point where even eating something as disgusting tasting to them as a human, is better than starving.
@@Aizen2468 does that mean of the 700 men who died of shark bite from the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, that none were eaten? Just repeat bites?There are more than 300 eye witness accounts of sharks devouring them. So out of nearly 1,200 on board, 316 went down with the ship and 300 rescued. About half were dinner. Don’t kid yourself.
Danny Colón I understand that feeling the best thing to do to get over that feeling is to go out with other people and after a while you will calm down
Daniel Colón i used to feel that way too. First time i went out it never crossed my mind. Its honestly a relaxing, blissful experience. The only thing ive seen here in florida so far was a super tiny sea turtle right next to me.
Born and raised in Florida you're brought up knowing 2 things. 1) Respect the ocean, she'll always win. 2) Don't ever forget you're never alone in the ocean. ❤ She is beautiful ain't she
If you had to estimate a length and weight what would you think? I was thinking no more than 9' and around 500lbs, maybe 3 years old. Did he ever breach the surface or stay under the whole time? I had a brush with a juvenile white shark in 97, completely changed the way I feel about the water since.
@@lisamecham5712 Seriously, yes! I've grown to respect sharks quite a bit, even the smaller ones. I do a lot of diving and I've always got an eye out for them and a knife attached to me when I'm in the water. There's nothing like being brushed up against by a 500 lb mass of wet sandpaper while you're on your board, waiting for a wave. It's terrifying actually. Took me 7 years to go back in the water after. Now It's always on my mind when I go in.
I've been watching The Malibu Artist and he's shown plenty of footage with his drone how common sharks are swimming near people. I lived in Hawaii for 3yrs and I was always in the ocean. I've probably had quite a few sharks near me and I had no idea.
I was out at Jax Beach FL as a teenager with my brother in the outside break on a pretty big day. While we we sitting on our boards with about 5 other surfers around us, I saw a bouy on a braided line being dragged by something underwater. We all just sat there watching that bouy going through the water coming in our direction. I saw the number on it as it made a first pass. Then it turned. Just at that moment a HUGE dorsal fin surfaced just like the one in all of the Jaws movies, then a pectoral fin about 10 feet behind it. After freezing in absolute horror, I looked left and right to my brother and the rest of the surfers. They had already turned to paddle and leave me. I remember everyone saying "dude, great white, great white." As I turned to depart, the fins went under as it was heading in my direction. The shore was about 300 yards away and I paddled so hard. We were all just thinking to outrun the next guy, but I was last and that bouy was coming for me, so I had a choice. Catch the wave and risk wiping out, or stop and hope it will go right past me, and wish for the best. Everyone was so far ahead and then they caught the first wave in the set leaving alone in the water. At that point, I knew I only had one true choice, to catch the next approaching wave and hopefully outrun it because the bouy was causing drag. So I paddled hard to catch it slashing like crazy in the water. I caught it, but the wave was roo huge to belly ride so I had to stand up. Then I dropped in the face of this huge wave and right at the bottom turn... BAM, I totally ate it. Those were the longest 30 seconds of my life and I prayed like I have never prayer before as I waited for the huge intense bite. After getting knocked around for a bit, I surfaced and gasped for air while trying find my board floating 8 feet away. I finally got to my board and got on. I was totally disoriented and I was looking around for the direction of land, while waiting to be eaten. THANK GOD I caught the white water of another wave and I took it most of the way in. By then, my brother, the 5 guys who were out there and the rest who were in the inside break were all standing on the shore with the lifeguard. Everyone was out of the water and EVERYONE thought it got me. It was like a Jaws movie. Everyone was hugging me and saying, "wow you made it!" So I told my uncle, who was a scientist, that we had seen a great white and he said, "there are no great white's in FL." I told him what we saw and the number on the bouy. My other uncle who was a marine biologist said he read about a group of marine biologists who were tagging Great Whites with numbered bouy's up north before the winter came. We later confirmed it was a GW that had been tagged. Osearch now uses digital tracking and data shows GW's regularly go offshore near Jax beach. Scariest day of my life.
Yeah.. I grew up in the ocean in so. cal boogie boarding as a kid to body surfing. Snorkeling. Scuba diving in Catalina and I’ve always kept my eyes open for sharks and as far as I know I’ve never seen one but that’s been my utmost fear anytime I’ve been in their territory.. very glad you’re ok. Stay safe & god bless!! 👍👍🤞🤞
I am fairly new to standup paddleboarding (started in Dec 2020) and you simply can't enjoy the experience of being on the water if you are afraid of what "might" or "could" happen. Don't get me wrong, there are moments when I get into my own head and start looking around my board and wondering, but I force myself to shake it off and stop thinking like that and within moments I am back in a blissful state of mind enjoying the sun on my skin, the fresh salt air in my lungs and the feeling of the cold water rushing over my feet on the board. Nothing quite like it. I did surf as a kid with my older brother at Bolsa Chica and we did see a shark silhouetted in a cresting wave not 30 or so feet offshore as we sat resting on the sand having just come out of the water...Not sure what type of shark it was. I was 13 years old....my big brother who has surfed all over the world didn't seem bothered and his not freaking out about it affected me in the best way. He has his share of shark stories with many happening in Mexico. One in particular event which he told me about and which I still remember clearly was when he and a buddy were surfing at Estero Beach when his friend yelled out, "Look behind you!"...My brother turned to see a dorsal fin which he thought to be about one and a half feet high cutting through the water not 10 feet behind him and following him.....he calmly paddled towards shore and the shark lost interest and swam away. My brother's respectful and calm attitude about sharks or any other ocean predators or dangerous animals was something that rubbed off on me and I appreciate it to this day. He told me once that people who use the term "shark infested waters" might as well also say "people infested cities". They are always present whether we see them or not and I am glad they are. They are magnificent beautiful creatures....all kinds of sharks..
If you ever SEE a great white, it's terrifying, but you're probably gonna be fine. If a great white wants to hurt you, you will not see it. Granted, I would've paddled like hell too hahaha.
Thinks he can out paddle a shark... jaja, Never ! We surf sano all the time, they are all over the place, gw live in the ocean, they eat seals just another day!
True, Great Whites will attack from below you and use the surprise attack. I surfed in Florida from 16-22 y/o Jax. to Daytona Beach. Never saw one that close to me but I did have things??? swim past my legs several times. That alone will make you crap yourself. LOL
thats probably true in some cases but the thing about great whites and also other shark species is that they will circle around you for some time before they eventually move in closer and closer on you and suddenly they will bump into you for a test bite. A test bite from a great white can be fatal and is very dangerous. If you see a great white like this surfer did you need to leave the occean in a controlled manner. If he stayed longer its very likely that the shark would eventually take a test bite. Great White Sharks often do surprise attacks but a test bite isnt a surprise.
first time i ever saw a shark was when i was surfing at jacksonville beach pier with my homie. spinner shark breached (went airborne) like 15 feet from us. Since then ive seen lots of sharks cruising around, they very rarely bother surfers, and when they do its like u said, you dont see it comin lol.
If you look closely you can see that part of the time that he is paddling, it is actually sped up, so no - he isn't traveling at an abnormally high rate of speed or a human on the water. PS: I picked this up fairly quickly because i am a sound/visual effects engineer; In fact, i noticed the 2nd time i watched it.
I had a juvenile great white come up to my kayak and it hit me before I knew it was there; still scares me to think about it. Surfing in the Bay area they are very common. I've seen sharks lurking under the surfers. When the wave lifts you can see them there clear as day.
Yea people are shitheads, people don’t know how to appreciate others, pretend this guy is your uncle or something then you probably wouldn’t be angry and hated filled this video didn’t meet your expectations.
Cosmic Peach no, see the thing is on youtube its almost impossible to see a video without dislikes no matter what it is. Even fking sad cancer storys and stuff like that get over 1K dislikes it disgusts me
I remember when I was 13 years old on a holiday to the Seychelles seeing a shark in the water about 90 feet away we where only waist deep but hell you should have seen us move!
Well the shark 🦈 wasn't exactly gunning for him or he wouldn't be here, probably 🤔 a reef or something less dangerous. White sharks tiger sharks bull sharks are the most popular attackers in close to shore maybe a blue fin might come in, when I surfed I could see reef sharks go under my board and it didn't stop me from surfing, u must know where ur at and what possibilities are there 😉
I've been closer...and I didn't have a surfboard. I was snorkeling in Molokini Crater, totally clueless, and had swam off a little by myself, when a tiger shark started following me. He was super casual about it, but when I went left, he went left, when I went straight he went straight. The guy who ran the snorkeling boat spotted him and got on the loud speaker and is like, "Yeah, that's about an 10 footer but he probably won't bother you, you aren't on his menu. Just head towards the boat." I know that feeling when you start moving fast, lol, at any minute expecting a hard tug from under the water. But I just moved quickly and really, really steadily even though my heart was pounding. I was just a mom from Chicago! I didn't know anything about sharks until I saw that one. Now I live on the West coast and I just figure they're always out there, what can you do.
ChicagoCathrun Sounds like what happened to me on the Big Island. Swam out too far and the current was strong. Im 200 Yards out when I see a big Tiger about 50 Yards from me. Scary shit man
That is so funny, I was diving Molokini on the north corner closest to Maui. I was descending and saw a Tiger almost on the bottom at 125 feet by the cement anchor cable. I was dropping right on top of him. When I got down there he was gone. I was waiting for my dive buddy wife to descend when her regulator's O-ring blew and she spit her regulator. So I was stuck buddy breathing back to the dive boat. Never got to see that Tiger again. It was an exciting dive though. I went back down looking.
ChicagoCathrun I saw a 15 ft great white charging at me I pooped my pants luckily I made it out in time to shore but I never went back in the water again😃😤😳😩😨😵😱
In the early 80s I had to travel to California for work. We were near the Reagan ranch, if I recall correctly, around Santa Barbara. A surfer had just gone missing and there was a big shark bite out of his surfboard. Next stop for work Florida and the Bahamas. Again there was a missing surfer with a big bite out of his board. Before I took that job I was a Marine Patrol Officer for a Southern state, a sea going state cop in the Natural Resources Division. While drifting off-shore beyond the shipping lanes a white shark approached my boat and swam under it. How big? Longer than my patrol boat. Big enough that I think the average person could have been eaten whole, a big man might have taken 2 bites. A patrol plane flew me up the coast for a hundred miles right over the surf line of the Atlantic. The number and size of the sharks I saw on that flight was amazing. To each his/her own. Personally, I’ll stick to a swimming pool.
I felt so scared like Joe even more when you were swimming to the coast, I thought the shark would catch or bite you from below the surface. Btw, thanks for sharing it and I'm glad you weren't injured.
My father was stationed at Camp Pendleton for about 6 yrs, we camped at San Onofre many times. Its an awesome place to dig in the tide pools at low tide. I learned to surf, and body surf there, of course that was 40+ years ago. I read in 2013 I believe, that marine biologist found out that San Onofre is a pupping area for great whites. They stay in the area till they reach maturity, which can be 10-13feet. Juveniles only feed on fish and other sea life, their teeth are not mature enough for larger sea mammals, such as seals.
Sharks are, like many other animals, curious about new or unusual objects or creatures in their environment. Obviously they don't have hands, so the only way they can interact with other things is...by using their mouths. The grand majority of shark bites are simply them trying to figure out what they hell they are looking at. I mean, can you blame them? I've seen some freaky lookin' folks at the beach.
Great footage David. You reacted exactly how you should have, remaining calm and getting to shore. We surf with sharks all the time, we just don't always see each other. Nice board!
The Zen Fool Well we all saw him paddling to the shore super quickly but he was really calm. Usually people never react like him, they just panic and that's the first thing to agitate a shark.
02:04 No, I can promise you, that was NOT the closest you've ever been to a shark in the water. It was the closest you've ever been to a shark you have seen in the water. If you surf often then sharks have been very near you often. Take a look at Malibu Artists drone footage of sharks/surfers/people in general. It is shocking.
states it’s the closest he’s ever been to a shark. To be fair let’s just say it’s the closest you have ever SEEN a shark. If you are a surfer , they are watching you when you don’t even know it.
Yeah true, I've heard if a shark attacked a human every time they had an ecounter is would a daily massacre. There's more chance of choking than being eaten by a shark..
Can you imagine having a lovely peaceful swim in the water minding your own business and next thing you know this beast is coming your direction. NOPE.
After watching the Malibu Artist channel for a couple of years, I can assure you your encounter is far more common than was previously thought, and the shark was likely a curious juvenile calmly swimming about, and not at all about to attack you. That said, I'd still get out of the water asap as well, in your place.
10ft shark was about 5ft away from me at this exact beach surfing alone. had no idea too until a lifeguards escorted me out of the water and told me what was going on, and how big the shark was. I knew there was something in the water by me, but I thought it was a seal lol
I'm fascinated by sharks. They're incredible apex predators. However, I was quite impressed with the way he handled the situation. He's obviously been surfing for many a year and knows how to handle himself in a tough situation. I'd be more worried for him if it was a Tiger, or a Bull shark. Don't those 2 species come closer to the shore?
Wow so empty ! I’ve seen a few juvies in Encinitas and in Lower Trestles - I am sure they’re always around us lol even if we don’t see them. I love surfing but wouldn’t really wanna go too far up the coast like to the Northern beaches haha - those babies get BIG !! Glad everything was cool ☺️
I moved to Los Angeles in late 1981 and it was in the news a surfer missing but they found his board ... When they held the board up about a 3rd of the board was missing from a huge bite that looked like a great white took out of it !
As a surf fisherman I have proof they are just mere yards of the shoreline, often they seem to travel just behind the first breakers. Not great whites though. They are generally farther off shore
The ocean is so beautiful and I'm always in complete awe at the amazing life going on down there, it's like a whole other planet,that being said, I'm terrified of sharks and so I will respect their home and admire from afar 😍😍😍
I've been flying drones looking for sharks for the past month now and I've grown such a respect for the ocean and the life that's in it. At the end of the day that's their home and we're merely guests in their house.
Roger Clemons I’m not a surfer but they have as much right to public parking and beaches as anyone. If they wake up earlier and get there first, of course they’re going to take the best available spots, just as anyone else looking for parking would do.
San Onofre is a breeding ground for Great White's here in Southern California. Redondo Beach about 40 miles north is a Hammerhead breeding area due to the Redondo canyon drop off. Sharks are needed for the global management of our oceans. Part of the all. Fisherman forever Los Angeles
We went to Santa Cruz beach for the day and they were having life guard training that day for a bunch of young people. About 30 people had to swim way out about 200 yards and go around a couple markers and swim back, I was thinking "hell no!"
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I hate crowds when I surf but if there is a shark in the water I’m ok with crowds . Why were you surprised there is a shark in the ocean ?
I was surprised because I've been surfing that spot for over 20 years and have seen many sharks glide by without the slightest interest in me.
This location is a known Great White nursery, all the sharks I have seen have been less than 8 feet, most around 6 feet. None has ever given me a second thought and if they keep on going I've kept on surfing.
Prior to this video, I was always on a shortboard which sits about a foot deeper in the water. It doesn't slap the water like the long boards do. Maybe the slapping noise caused this shark to investigate.
In any case, I was definitely surprised when this one abruptly turned right at me.
(I should mention that we do have very rare adult or sub-adult Great Whites in this stretch of coastline. I haven't seen one, but if I do, I'll be riding the next wave in.)
I think it’s fair to say that he was surprised that he saw a shark, not that he was surprised that there was a ‘shark in the ocean.’ Let’s be honest, they’re not exactly common to see are they?
Born and raised in Hawaii, I’ve encountered a shark several times when I surfed. Just gotta stay calm and hope the faka no bite you. One time I had to swim for canoe to canoe during practice. The canoes where about 100 feet apart and I had to swim to the other one and we’re at the entrance of the bay, the deepest part, and I hop off and as I’m swimming my coach yells there’s a tiger shark next to me, did my best to swim smoothly so it didn’t look like I was a dying or injured sea animal 😂
There’s sharks you can ignore, and then there’s 10+ ft great whites. He did the rational thing going back to shore.
What a stupid comment. It's not like you see a shark every day. If you did, thousands of people would be dying every day. To say you were surprised doesn't necessarily mean you didn't think it was possible. My mother surprised me at 3am in the kitchen this morning because she is never up at that hour. Get it?
My surfing career ended before it started
I surfed here the second time I ever surfed lmao. Terrifying but so fun! The locals were very sweet
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Didnt it end before you went into the water
Just focus on the Kessel Run. See if you can do that in under 12 parsecs again.
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Man: “That’s the closest I’ve ever been to a shark in the water”
Shark: “There’s that guy again, who’s been coming here every week for twenty years”
haha......and yes plenty of drone footage of sharks with surfers being unaware of their presence.
Haha closest that he knows of
Probably the shark got tired of being alone and decided to finally meet the guy. I think the shark is heartbroken now, forever lonely 😭
@@crispinalexander7550 😭
No seriously. I’ve surged there and the locals told me they’re very used to seeing the sharks or feeling them bump them but they just try not to react. Beautiful beach!! Great people too.
I’ll never forget the time in high school when me and one of my best friends decided to compete with each other to see who could swim out to one of the buoy’s first. The buoy was out farther than we originally thought so we decided to hold onto it and rest for a little, and as we were we suddenly saw and then felt a huge dark object beneath us. We panicked at first but then were relieved to realize it was just a sea lion! He decided to rest at our buoy and was actually very cute up close, but I won’t be swimming out that far ever again lol.
What do you kids think this is? Stranded deep? A buoy means you may want turn back with your boat. Are you Russian? Sounds like something a Russian would do. 🤔
@Typical Musician, Well sea lions are major shark bait, one of a shark´s favorite meals, so you guys got lucky. Lol
One swam under my board while and surfaced not too far from us. I was 100 % convinced it was a shark. I had to get back to shore because it scared the living shit out of me.
I had a similar experience but it was a dolphin that I thought was a shark at first. scared the crap out of me 😅
@@Mr.SmileyGlow Same here. I lived in Florida for 8 years and one day when I was standing in waist deep water on Sanibel Island. I saw a couple fins sticking out of the water coming right at me. Before I could even turn around and head to the shore two dolphins came right up by my legs and brushed against me herding some bait fish. In that half a minute I really thought I was going to die or at least be maimed and crippled
I used to surf alone, way out the back of a beach in Port Stephens, Australia. I surfed this place for about 12 years. Then a guy doing research on Great Whites started pulling in and tagging Great White juveniles. In one month he tagged 48 of the buggers, and they were over 2 metres long. I was shocked. Then I started thinking where is Mum and Dad. Never surfed that spot again.
Blimey! Lol
I used to surf alone sometimes off Perth beaches even into dark at sunset ...that was 70s and 80s..you couldn't pay me enough to swim off Perth waters now after so many people have been eaten in recent yrs
@@ACDZ123 shark population has decreased, you would've been more at risk in the 70s and 80s, goes to show how unlikely it really is to be attacked considering how many adult great whites you were probably in close contact with without knowing
@Jayke Brown yeah I don't know if that's correct that shark populations have decreased..sharks are protected these days unlike the 70s when they were hunted to the point of extinction. That's a big claim you're making
@@ACDZ123 First source I found from google states the following
We find that, globally, the abundance of oceanic sharks declined by 71.1% (95% credible interval, 63.2-78.4%) (Fig. 1) from 1970 to 2018
So a 71.1% decrease from the 70s.
"That's the closest I've ever been to a shark in the water."
That's just the closest you've ever noticed a shark in the water near you....
I actually use this axiom to sort of build up my confidence
I think of all the times I've been surfing, and assume I've safely shared the water with sharks plenty
I thought the exact same thing lol, probably had sharks underneath him lots of times
@@arsaeterna4285 that’s a fact that builds confidence.
@@arsaeterna4285 indeed, if you ever see people drone footage of the coast of California, you will regularly see multipule white sharks swimming around in the surf surrounded by people, those people just have no idea there is a white shark like 6 feet away from them.
it's funny because people freak out when they know there is a shark in the water, but in relaity, there is probably one not far from you every time you go out there.
Jesus dude
Surfer guy: Oh crap a shark, lemme swim fast so he won't get me
Shark: dude if I really wanted to get you....
1:28 i mean ..... COULD HE ?
Alpha Male HAHA
Alpha Male if it wanted to kill him then it would have ambushed him before he even saw it; not swim right near the surface
sh4rk b4it There is a lot of hate for sharks, and certainly, they do attack people (I’m an Aussie, and there are several fatal shark attacks here every year, and that’s excluding the many non-fatal), but the reality is, if those sharks wanted to actually eat the people that they bit, then there would be no actual body to recover. If a shark wanted to eat a person, it’d just fucking eat the person! Sharks are big, and have a massive bite force with hundreds of teeth that do a lot of damage, but if you actually see the shark before it bites you, you’re probably going to be fine, as it already knows you’re not dinner, and more often than not (even though it’s probably little consolation), once it’s taken an investigation bite, it’ll realise you’re way too lean, and far too bony, and it’ll move on...of course, that one bite may remove a limb. But hey, it’s got no hands to see if you’re a seal, or a turtle. Sharks are amazing creatures. We’re killing them in their millions, and they don’t deserve the bad rap.
@@sh4rkb4it79 you obviously missed the joke
That's the closest I've ever been to surfing 🏄♀️
😂😂😂
You stayed really calm. Really smart intuition that you were able to see that was a great white shark. Glad you are safe and able to surf another day.
The smartest intuition is to not go out into the ocean on a surfboard.
@@Incessuserro is it better to face the shark without one ?
He didn’t stay calm though - he splashed like a maniac
@@Dingbotz are u sure?
@@xthexskrillex yes
That wasn’t fast fowarding editing, that was literally how fast he was paddling out of there
I'd be paddling, Benny Hill version.
That's how I would have been paddling from the very start, forget fast forwarding!
Lolololololol!
Exactly. Just like a Benny Hill episode
danged right lol
At 1:28 that's the fastest swimming I've ever seen. Adrenaline is amazing
RS GAMING The footage is sped up
RS GAMING lmaooo
Sepilio Thane thanks captain obvious
Jesus Christ Superstar just stating.
RS GAMING LMAOOO
The idea that surfing is so amazing that it’s worth the risk of being consumed by a Great White shark is inconceivable.
ikr I really dont understand some ppl
Sharks overall kill around 5 people a year. Global population of surfers is somwhere between 17 to 30 million people. Doesn't seem like a huge risk to be honest.
But hur hur, that one movie says that sharks are just evil, twisted killing machines so ocean must be a deathtrap because Jaws and every other movie with sharks is a perfect reflection of reality!
I imagine these people are just not afraid of Sharks in general.
Hey, I could be killed by a stray bullet or in a car accident tomorrow. Might as well enjoy one of the things I love the most in life. If you've never been surfing, you're right, you can't understand
Does the risk of driving sound like a great risk? Or getting a drink on the van machine? Many many times more people die because of cars and vending machines than sharks.
I've been a scuba diver for over 20 years, I was a helicopter pilot for the Navy for several years, and I took up flying drones as a hobby a few years ago. If people had a clue, most would not get back in the ocean. Ignorance is bliss.
Says the 20 year scuba diver 😊
Been to that beach and had something heavy bump into me. That was the last time I ever went into the ocean.
Yup. Found out after I went that locals see/feel sharks there all the time. So glad I didn’t see one that day
loool buddy was like "aight that's enough fo me" haha
@@newbreedian 😂😂😂
I had the exact same experience in the ocean once. I got “test bumped” by a shark before.... I was thrown off my air mattress many feet into the air.... I shit my bathing suit when I realized no one else was in the water with me...
@@Baneslayer where did this happen? I would have ran across the water 😂 Where i live the scariest things are some non harmful jelly fish in the ocean lol
Solitary surfing anywhere along the west coast is crazy
Southern Cali beaches are pretty safe. I swim at Huntington Beach, Newport, and laguna all the time with no incidents.
You make it seem as if it is Florida or Australia which do have a high amount of shark attacks.
Try the Reunion Islands . Getting in the water has been banned .
Global Dayz really because there has been only one fatal attack of the west coat in years that happened in my hometown . Solana Beach Ca . Care of mistaken identity.
Also there’s a need of education about sharks guys. The major part of the shark attacks can be avoided in some ways, for example: swim or surf with at least one person if you’re not sure it’s safe, don’t go into the water if it’s dirty because of the rain, when you wait for a wave turn your board in different directions because from the bottom you look like a predator and not like an injured or dead animal in the surface, if there’s one close avoid slapping the water when swimming, the first is not to attract their attention. But if they come, you need to remain calm, you can change their curse by putting your hand on their nose and turn them to other side if not attacking, and if they attack, aim your fingers to their eyes because they are so sensible. Obviously there’s the need of being cold minded and everything.
@@rubencortes4793 exactly I live in south Florida and if you are educated on the habitat and animals, you kinda just go with mother nature. My back yard has gators too. We do have more incidents though, especially with all the species of animals. Florida fish and wildlife. Good to eat as well.
My heart was racing as he was paddling for dear life, ain't gonna lie! 🤣
Happened to me in South Africa..
Just a wee lad of 14 and learning to body board. Anyway, there was a great set out and everyone was heading to the beach. Got out and paddled to the waves and then suddenly saw a dark cloud go through a wave. Of course you think it’s your mind playing tricks on you… but it happened again. The shore line wasn’t close by so start booking it back and shouting at everyone coming in “there’s a shark there’s a shark”. Got the the shoreline and one of my buddies who had seen what I’d seen said. “Did you see it did you see it”!? One of the local walked by and said “you guys are idiots, that’s not a shark it’s a dolphin”
Better safe than sorry.
Hahaha top 1. From SA bud
Judging by your photo you were way too handsome for a shark to attack 😂😂😂 🤷♀️
Even Sth African shark had a go at our...
I thought Great White Sharks all played the cello to alert you to their presence.
Bom bom.......bom bom..........bom bom ba bom bom bom ba bom bombombom .....BOM.BOM!!
Double bass
Lol
Same bro
hahahaha
"It was at that exact moment, Mark the shark realised, he will never make any friends, ever"
Ha ha ha! Now I feel bad for not being friendlier.
"Mark returned home, only to find out his wife was cheating with Dale the whale...with no friend to turn to, Mark filled up a tub with water...and commited suicide, the end" No man, glad you got out of the way, else it would be a lot harder watching the video :p
alright how could he commit suicide by drowning. He's a shark!
hey, that's funny (and sort of sad,) but I think your right, Mark (the shark - good name, you should do a kids book,) unfortunately, is a solitary creature doomed to roam the sea on his own :-( but he could have some cool adventures :-)
Hi Centre Mental, glad you're joining me on this one. Maybe we should do a kids book together!? We could in fact, but only if you can come up with another name that rhymes with shark. Also, kids would like a happy ending (not to be confused with the happy ending you would receive after a massage), so maybe you should lighten up, contact me and we'll make things happen!
I love these PSAs that confirm my instinct to stay as far away from the ocean as possible to be intrinsically accurate.
This shows how important it is to have a buddy every time you go for a swim at the beach.
Especially if you swim faster.
Yep. so your buddy can watch you get bitten in half. Witness, so to speak.
@@blackporscheroadster-yw8hb I didn't mean it like that lol. Usually, the shark would be more cautious if the creature looks bigger or more intimidating.
Exactly. That way once the shark eats both of you, he'll most likely spare the rest of the beach goers.
It reduces the odds to 50% instead of 100%.
Trust me buddy, you’ve been closer. That’s just the closest you’ve seen. They are all around us out there... thankfully sharks tend to leave humans alone for the most part.
Russian roulette. If I was a shark I would eat humans because they are so easy to catch. We are definitely good food for them. Perhaps at times they are focused on their usual food, but I would never gamble my life on it because you wouldn’t stand even a slim chance if it decided to attack. There are deaths and feeding on people from bears, people who think they really don’t want to eat us.
@@AndrewJamesMcQuinn bruh
@@AndrewJamesMcQuinn usually that’s a last resort when animals are starving and all their prey are scarce. There’s a story from WW II where Soviet and nazi forces allied together temporarily to fight of man eating wolves. There were also other attacks on civilians the preceded the event. These incidents are collectively called the Kirov Wolf attacks. Supposedly, any dogs and cattle had dwindled to the point where the only widely available food source was…humans. Particularly children.
@@AndrewJamesMcQuinn sharks don't like the taste of humans. Usually they take a single bite, and quickly let go because we taste bad to them.
Granted....a single bite can usually be pretty severe, especially if the shark is big. But, for the most part, sharks will leave humans alone unless A) they feel threatened, B) we accidentally STEP on them (more common than you might think on beaches), or C) they are SEVERELY hungry to the point where even eating something as disgusting tasting to them as a human, is better than starving.
@@Aizen2468 does that mean of the 700 men who died of shark bite from the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, that none were eaten? Just repeat bites?There are more than 300 eye witness accounts of sharks devouring them. So out of nearly 1,200 on board, 316 went down with the ship and 300 rescued. About half were dinner. Don’t kid yourself.
This is way I cannot enjoy the ocean, I'm constantly paranoid that there is a shark somewhere nearby, it's horrible to feel that way. 😂
Danny Colón I understand that feeling the best thing to do to get over that feeling is to go out with other people and after a while you will calm down
Daniel Colón i used to feel that way too. First time i went out it never crossed my mind. Its honestly a relaxing, blissful experience. The only thing ive seen here in florida so far was a super tiny sea turtle right next to me.
Sid Thank you, I'll try it.
irishpenguin13 It's a struggle but will continue to go out with family and friends in Miami Beach. 😂
Our family's rule, when we go to the beach, is no talking about sharks. My son and I have been going in the ocean forever and love it.
Shark: "if only this dude knew I was vegan"
He's out there alone, looking like a baby seal, thrashing about in the water.
That looks like a pretty decent sized NOPE swimming behind you.
personM4N Hahahahaahahhaaha my favourite comment 😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂so trueeee👌
Notice how he immediately caught the first FUCK IT wave out of there. Smart man.
That's what I see too. A whole lotta NOPE.. nope, nopitty nope nope..
personM4N you said it best mate
Enter the water, enter the food chain.
😂😂😂
🍲⛓🍡⛓🍗⛓🌭⛓🥦⛓🌮
JS Burns that is brilliant!😂
Seriously
You're a fukn boss with that comment bro!!!
Born and raised in Florida you're brought up knowing 2 things.
1) Respect the ocean, she'll always win.
2) Don't ever forget you're never alone in the ocean.
❤ She is beautiful ain't she
Judging from all the drone footage I've seen recently, I'll bet those Great Whites have seen you a lot more than you've seen them.
My anxiety just got anxiety
Abby Westman girl sameee
Yes girl
Lol
lol!!
lo
"that's the closest i've ever been to a shark..."
yah, you'd probably be surprised to find out that it probably isn't
PLENTY of unnoticed positive encounters occur daily
One time when I was a kid, a sand shark swam between my legs and just went about its day :)
Austin Sirois “ope, scuse me, just gonna sneak right through here”
Looked like such a great time you were having, seemingly enjoying the entire Ocean to yourself. 🤣That look of concern though!
If you had to estimate a length and weight what would you think?
I was thinking no more than 9' and around 500lbs, maybe 3 years old.
Did he ever breach the surface or stay under the whole time?
I had a brush with a juvenile white shark in 97, completely changed the way I feel about the water since.
9' and 500 lbs is big enough, don't you think??? Say "NO" to surfing!!! 🤣😂🤣
@@lisamecham5712 Seriously, yes!
I've grown to respect sharks quite a bit, even the smaller ones. I do a lot of diving and I've always got an eye out for them and a knife attached to me when I'm in the water.
There's nothing like being brushed up against by a 500 lb mass of wet sandpaper while you're on your board, waiting for a wave.
It's terrifying actually.
Took me 7 years to go back in the water after.
Now It's always on my mind when I go in.
The camera wasn’t sped up, he really swam that fast after seeing the shark
Jeff Hahn it was
😂🤣
Lmao
Sure was. Just like that guy in Jaws 2.
@@chipp3234 you trolling? Or you really that dense?
Just another day doing cosplay as a seal for the great whites.
Gilead Glass what color should his wetsuit be then?
@Red u must be fun at parties
oh man you made my day thanks jajajaajaja
@@mmahub9970 Brodie’s crew at YBS wear blue wetsuits that camo perfectly in the ocean. Much smarter than basically dressing as a seal
@@mmahub9970 any color besides black
Shark: Are you aware your car warranty is about to expire?
Being surprised by a shark in the ocean is like being surprised by shit in a diaper
The description was a lot more exciting than the video.
Darrell Tiencken True, very true.
Yeah. This was super lame. This dude is probably more likely to die from curdled milk.
Make your own shark encounter video then
Tom Chamberlain Nah, I’ll just drink curdled milk. Way more dangerous and cool.
Fact!
That's the closest I've ever been to a shark in the water... THAT YOU KNOW OF....
Good point. It is normally the sharks that you don't see that are gonna get ya.
this one was spotted by him. millions of times a day GW's are swimming around people and people dont even know it.
CRAZYWILDMAN49 really? Millions? That's quite a lot. Cite your source.
Joey Bikes ~~This made me laugh right out loud!!:D
Joey Bikes Too Right!
I've been watching The Malibu Artist and he's shown plenty of footage with his drone how common sharks are swimming near people. I lived in Hawaii for 3yrs and I was always in the ocean. I've probably had quite a few sharks near me and I had no idea.
Dude went full-on Scooby Doo "Zoinks!" mode with his paddling, after turning around.
I was out at Jax Beach FL as a teenager with my brother in the outside break on a pretty big day. While we we sitting on our boards with about 5 other surfers around us, I saw a bouy on a braided line being dragged by something underwater. We all just sat there watching that bouy going through the water coming in our direction. I saw the number on it as it made a first pass. Then it turned. Just at that moment a HUGE dorsal fin surfaced just like the one in all of the Jaws movies, then a pectoral fin about 10 feet behind it. After freezing in absolute horror, I looked left and right to my brother and the rest of the surfers. They had already turned to paddle and leave me. I remember everyone saying "dude, great white, great white." As I turned to depart, the fins went under as it was heading in my direction. The shore was about 300 yards away and I paddled so hard. We were all just thinking to outrun the next guy, but I was last and that bouy was coming for me, so I had a choice. Catch the wave and risk wiping out, or stop and hope it will go right past me, and wish for the best. Everyone was so far ahead and then they caught the first wave in the set leaving alone in the water. At that point, I knew I only had one true choice, to catch the next approaching wave and hopefully outrun it because the bouy was causing drag. So I paddled hard to catch it slashing like crazy in the water. I caught it, but the wave was roo huge to belly ride so I had to stand up. Then I dropped in the face of this huge wave and right at the bottom turn... BAM, I totally ate it. Those were the longest 30 seconds of my life and I prayed like I have never prayer before as I waited for the huge intense bite. After getting knocked around for a bit, I surfaced and gasped for air while trying find my board floating 8 feet away. I finally got to my board and got on. I was totally disoriented and I was looking around for the direction of land, while waiting to be eaten. THANK GOD I caught the white water of another wave and I took it most of the way in. By then, my brother, the 5 guys who were out there and the rest who were in the inside break were all standing on the shore with the lifeguard. Everyone was out of the water and EVERYONE thought it got me. It was like a Jaws movie. Everyone was hugging me and saying, "wow you made it!" So I told my uncle, who was a scientist, that we had seen a great white and he said, "there are no great white's in FL." I told him what we saw and the number on the bouy. My other uncle who was a marine biologist said he read about a group of marine biologists who were tagging Great Whites with numbered bouy's up north before the winter came. We later confirmed it was a GW that had been tagged. Osearch now uses digital tracking and data shows GW's regularly go offshore near Jax beach. Scariest day of my life.
Man! That's a million times scarier than my encounter.
That sounds absolutely horrific! I’d never go in the water again. Glad you made it out alive and unharmed!
@@davidgwoodward1679 You can't joke with nature. Never !
Yeah.. I grew up in the ocean in so. cal boogie boarding as a kid to body surfing. Snorkeling. Scuba diving in Catalina and I’ve always kept my eyes open for sharks and as far as I know I’ve never seen one but that’s been my utmost fear anytime I’ve been in their territory.. very glad you’re ok. Stay safe & god bless!! 👍👍🤞🤞
I am fairly new to standup paddleboarding (started in Dec 2020) and you simply can't enjoy the experience of being on the water if you are afraid of what "might" or "could" happen. Don't get me wrong, there are moments when I get into my own head and start looking around my board and wondering, but I force myself to shake it off and stop thinking like that and within moments I am back in a blissful state of mind enjoying the sun on my skin, the fresh salt air in my lungs and the feeling of the cold water rushing over my feet on the board. Nothing quite like it. I did surf as a kid with my older brother at Bolsa Chica and we did see a shark silhouetted in a cresting wave not 30 or so feet offshore as we sat resting on the sand having just come out of the water...Not sure what type of shark it was. I was 13 years old....my big brother who has surfed all over the world didn't seem bothered and his not freaking out about it affected me in the best way. He has his share of shark stories with many happening in Mexico. One in particular event which he told me about and which I still remember clearly was when he and a buddy were surfing at Estero Beach when his friend yelled out, "Look behind you!"...My brother turned to see a dorsal fin which he thought to be about one and a half feet high cutting through the water not 10 feet behind him and following him.....he calmly paddled towards shore and the shark lost interest and swam away. My brother's respectful and calm attitude about sharks or any other ocean predators or dangerous animals was something that rubbed off on me and I appreciate it to this day. He told me once that people who use the term "shark infested waters" might as well also say "people infested cities". They are always present whether we see them or not and I am glad they are. They are magnificent beautiful creatures....all kinds of sharks..
Bet that swim to shore would’ve felt like a lifetime 🙈
Lol, it felt like a lifetime just watching it. Can’t imagine actually being there
imagine being a swimmer and not having a surf board in this situation
Some folks I know would freeze up in fear & not be able to swim or even have a heart attack
If you ever SEE a great white, it's terrifying, but you're probably gonna be fine. If a great white wants to hurt you, you will not see it. Granted, I would've paddled like hell too hahaha.
Thinks he can out paddle a shark... jaja, Never ! We surf sano all the time, they are all over the place, gw live in the ocean, they eat seals just another day!
True, Great Whites will attack from below you and use the surprise attack. I surfed in Florida from 16-22 y/o Jax. to Daytona Beach. Never saw one that close to me but I did have things??? swim past my legs several times. That alone will make you crap yourself. LOL
thats probably true in some cases but the thing about great whites and also other shark species is that they will circle around you for some time before they eventually move in closer and closer on you and suddenly they will bump into you for a test bite. A test bite from a great white can be fatal and is very dangerous. If you see a great white like this surfer did you need to leave the occean in a controlled manner. If he stayed longer its very likely that the shark would eventually take a test bite. Great White Sharks often do surprise attacks but a test bite isnt a surprise.
first time i ever saw a shark was when i was surfing at jacksonville beach pier with my homie. spinner shark breached (went airborne) like 15 feet from us. Since then ive seen lots of sharks cruising around, they very rarely bother surfers, and when they do its like u said, you dont see it comin lol.
If you look closely you can see that part of the time that he is paddling, it is actually sped up, so no - he isn't traveling at an abnormally high rate of speed or a human on the water.
PS: I picked this up fairly quickly because i am a sound/visual effects engineer; In fact, i noticed the 2nd time i watched it.
A friend of mine said it's better to remain perfectly still rather than a frantic run for the beach. That's what great white food does....
I had a juvenile great white come up to my kayak and it hit me before I knew it was there; still scares me to think about it. Surfing in the Bay area they are very common. I've seen sharks lurking under the surfers. When the wave lifts you can see them there clear as day.
People disliking were expecting him to be eaten or what
Cosmic Peach nah they disliked bc they wanted him to get eaten and he didnt
Alexis Lain yeah that's what I meant
😂😂😂😂😂
Yea people are shitheads, people don’t know how to appreciate others, pretend this guy is your uncle or something then you probably wouldn’t be angry and hated filled this video didn’t meet your expectations.
Cosmic Peach no, see the thing is on youtube its almost impossible to see a video without dislikes no matter what it is. Even fking sad cancer storys and stuff like that get over 1K dislikes it disgusts me
I remember when I was 13 years old on a holiday to the Seychelles seeing a shark in the water about 90 feet away we where only waist deep but hell you should have seen us move!
Thank God you are ok 🙏🏾💯
When you miss the wave and your life depended on it.
If that was a great white shark he would not have seen it until the shark would of bump him, white sharks attack from beneath u there for its to late.
@@josephcavaliere9772 That would make sense if the shark was attacking him.
The shark had no interest in him
@@josephcavaliere9772 the shark remained under water the whole time he just saw it through the face of the wave
Well the shark 🦈 wasn't exactly gunning for him or he wouldn't be here, probably 🤔 a reef or something less dangerous. White sharks tiger sharks bull sharks are the most popular attackers in close to shore maybe a blue fin might come in, when I surfed I could see reef sharks go under my board and it didn't stop me from surfing, u must know where ur at and what possibilities are there 😉
It turns out a longboard makes a fantastic selfie stick
That's a hilarious comment.
Jackson W Lolololol
LMAO
Jackson W haha
Who woulda thunk it
You’ve been closer….you just didn’t see it. They’re always out there with us
He looked 👀..🦈 & said let me get the hell up out of here 🏊♂️..😂😅
I don't go in their ocean, they stay off my lawn.
Ok so you don't surf and yes sharks don't go on land. Thumbs up!! Strange...
+Marciie M *their* smh.
Some can.. Sharknado
apburner1 couldnt have put it any better real shit lol
Quit eating their food and they will not eat you. Or better yet, eat them.
I've been closer...and I didn't have a surfboard. I was snorkeling in Molokini Crater, totally clueless, and had swam off a little by myself, when a tiger shark started following me. He was super casual about it, but when I went left, he went left, when I went straight he went straight. The guy who ran the snorkeling boat spotted him and got on the loud speaker and is like, "Yeah, that's about an 10 footer but he probably won't bother you, you aren't on his menu. Just head towards the boat." I know that feeling when you start moving fast, lol, at any minute expecting a hard tug from under the water. But I just moved quickly and really, really steadily even though my heart was pounding. I was just a mom from Chicago! I didn't know anything about sharks until I saw that one. Now I live on the West coast and I just figure they're always out there, what can you do.
Yikes!! That's a lot scarier than my encounter!
ChicagoCathrun Sounds like what happened to me on the Big Island. Swam out too far and the current was strong. Im 200 Yards out when I see a big Tiger about 50 Yards from me. Scary shit man
That is so funny, I was diving Molokini on the north corner closest to Maui. I was descending and saw a Tiger almost on the bottom at 125 feet by the cement anchor cable. I was dropping right on top of him. When I got down there he was gone. I was waiting for my dive buddy wife to descend when her regulator's O-ring blew and she spit her regulator. So I was stuck buddy breathing back to the dive boat. Never got to see that Tiger again. It was an exciting dive though. I went back down looking.
ChicagoCathrun I saw a 15 ft great white charging at me I pooped my pants luckily I made it out in time to shore but I never went back in the water again😃😤😳😩😨😵😱
you were on the menu,tigers kill females,especially when menstruating.
He said that's the closest he's ever been to a shark in the water...so he thinks lol
In the early 80s I had to travel to California for work. We were near the Reagan ranch, if I recall correctly, around Santa Barbara. A surfer had just gone missing and there was a big shark bite out of his surfboard. Next stop for work Florida and the Bahamas. Again there was a missing surfer with a big bite out of his board.
Before I took that job I was a Marine Patrol Officer for a Southern state, a sea going state cop in the Natural Resources Division. While drifting off-shore beyond the shipping lanes a white shark approached my boat and swam under it. How big? Longer than my patrol boat. Big enough that I think the average person could have been eaten whole, a big man might have taken 2 bites.
A patrol plane flew me up the coast for a hundred miles right over the surf line of the Atlantic. The number and size of the sharks I saw on that flight was amazing.
To each his/her own. Personally, I’ll stick to a swimming pool.
Im sitting here watching this on dry land, I was scared for you.
Glad your ok. Thanks for sharing video.
Thanks Joe!
Me too!
1:04 that moment when you just think one thing:run! Sorry go, swim whatever just get the fuck out!
You’re
I felt so scared like Joe even more when you were swimming to the coast, I thought the shark would catch or bite you from below the surface.
Btw, thanks for sharing it and I'm glad you weren't injured.
My father was stationed at Camp Pendleton for about 6 yrs, we camped at San Onofre many times. Its an awesome place to dig in the tide pools at low tide. I learned to surf, and body surf there, of course that was 40+ years ago. I read in 2013 I believe, that marine biologist found out that San Onofre is a pupping area for great whites. They stay in the area till they reach maturity, which can be 10-13feet. Juveniles only feed on fish and other sea life, their teeth are not mature enough for larger sea mammals, such as seals.
Except the lady that was bit last week, had a baby seal swim around her, why she was bit and not the seal.
Because sharks bite things.
Sharks are, like many other animals, curious about new or unusual objects or creatures in their environment. Obviously they don't have hands, so the only way they can interact with other things is...by using their mouths.
The grand majority of shark bites are simply them trying to figure out what they hell they are looking at. I mean, can you blame them? I've seen some freaky lookin' folks at the beach.
Sonja Ellis ...do juveniles test bite bigger prey for practice?
samiamisme, I guess they could, they test bite with their mouth. But their teeth are not developed till they reach maturity.
It's amazing how brave you surfers are. Attacks usually occur, When Sharks misinterpret surfers for turtles?!!
That's the closest you've been to a shark, that you're aware of.
Great footage David. You reacted exactly how you should have, remaining calm and getting to shore. We surf with sharks all the time, we just don't always see each other.
Nice board!
Haha, we don't always see the sharks* not vice versa.
lol, always watching
what do you mean "remained calm"? did you not see him set the world record for paddling to shore on a long board?
The Zen Fool Well we all saw him paddling to the shore super quickly but he was really calm. Usually people never react like him, they just panic and that's the first thing to agitate a shark.
XR72004 if he wanted to kill him he would be dead.
“This is the 5th time I’ve seen a Great White out here. God knows how many I haven’t seen. I think I’ll keep surfing here.”
02:04 No, I can promise you, that was NOT the closest you've ever been to a shark in the water. It was the closest you've ever been to a shark you have seen in the water. If you surf often then sharks have been very near you often. Take a look at Malibu Artists drone footage of sharks/surfers/people in general. It is shocking.
Just watched his videos this week by TH-cam reccomendation :D
Correction. That's the closest you've been to a shark, that you've noticed.
Let's dress up like a seal and swim with the sharks...what could go wrong?
webhead2777 he’s surfing
@@jackforeman7639 I thought he was feeding the sharks
😂
And in murky water after a rain storm. Natural selection.
Toxicbeowulf: Unfortunately, that's the normal color of our water out here.
Same thing happened to me in cape cod. Except I was on a sea kayak. I could tell you I paddled like an Olympic gold medalist to get outta there
Love the fast motion. Kind of emphasizes the "holy shit" mood!
My philosophy: Never go where you're not at the top of the food chain...unless armed.
states it’s the closest he’s ever been to a shark. To be fair let’s just say it’s the closest you have ever SEEN a shark. If you are a surfer , they are watching you when you don’t even know it.
Yeah true, I've heard if a shark attacked a human every time they had an ecounter is would a daily massacre. There's more chance of choking than being eaten by a shark..
@@jeremyrose1518 obv choking but the real one is getting struck by lightning.
@@quinnCS That's also true...
@@jeremyrose1518 I know lol
Can you imagine having a lovely peaceful swim in the water minding your own business and next thing you know this beast is coming your direction. NOPE.
I wouldn’t of needed my arms to propel me back to the shore....my arse would have turned me into a speedboat!
That's perfect man!
brownwings00 there are some places where they say “Wouldn’t of” 😉
@@martinchristensen6786 Yeah, places that are wrong.
Iggy Stardust i don’t really care that much to be honest, just let people speak the way they wanna speak..
🤣🤣🤣
After watching the Malibu Artist channel for a couple of years, I can assure you your encounter is far more common than was previously thought, and the shark was likely a curious juvenile calmly swimming about, and not at all about to attack you.
That said, I'd still get out of the water asap as well, in your place.
I grew up surfing San Onofre. We used to see juvenile gw’s out in the lineup pretty often. They never bothered anyone.
I wouldn’t even want to be “not bothered” by them! Just knowing there is this huge thing under the dark water makes me wanna VOM! 😂
10ft shark was about 5ft away from me at this exact beach surfing alone. had no idea too until a lifeguards escorted me out of the water and told me what was going on, and how big the shark was. I knew there was something in the water by me, but I thought it was a seal lol
This is why I prefer surfing with other people. Cause if there's a shark attack there is no need to outswim the shark, just outswim your friend :>
But your friend is faster swimmer then u😂
I bring a knife so that when I see a shark I cut my friiend then paddle for shore.
Welp, I don't have friends soo I'm outta luck soo yea ✌😭
Not sure this is true. I'd say they're more likely to go for the scaredest person making the most commotion?
Baaahaaaaa
I'm fascinated by sharks. They're incredible apex predators. However, I was quite impressed with the way he handled the situation. He's obviously been surfing for many a year and knows how to handle himself in a tough situation. I'd be more worried for him if it was a Tiger, or a Bull shark. Don't those 2 species come closer to the shore?
Gosh at 1 point he swims really fast , very talented
I like how he says @ 58....."Oh F#@k"
i agree ...and ...then he is silent and just starts paddling to get the fuck outta there ...lol
Wow so empty ! I’ve seen a few juvies in Encinitas and in Lower Trestles - I am sure they’re always around us lol even if we don’t see them. I love surfing but wouldn’t really wanna go too far up the coast like to the Northern beaches haha - those babies get BIG !! Glad everything was cool ☺️
And the faster he paddled, the more he looked like a sea lion to Mr. Shark. It looked like the shark wanted to catch the same wave.
I saw a shark and immediately turned and swam away looking as much like a seal as i possibly could.
It's not wise to go alone. Always good to have someone around maybe on a jet ski that can help if needed.
Don't expect that stupid people to do wise things.
How could he help ?
@@zeldaaachen7200 Someone has to drag the lifeless body back to shore.
Jet ski in 2 ft slop?????
Do you know how much a jet ski costs?
There was a shark??? I couldn't stop looking at that killer board. Deadly bro 👊
nice board? Maybe. As fast as a shark? No.
I moved to Los Angeles in late 1981 and it was in the news a surfer missing but they found his board ... When they held the board up about a 3rd of the board was missing from a huge bite that looked like a great white took out of it !
Omg I bet that swim to shore was the scariest thing he’s ever experienced…I would have shit myself scarred as hell on that swim back😂😂😳
Probably not the closest you've *ever* been to a shark, just the closest you've ever *seen* one. 😁
As a surf fisherman I have proof they are just mere yards of the shoreline, often they seem to travel just behind the first breakers.
Not great whites though. They are generally farther off shore
The ocean is so beautiful and I'm always in complete awe at the amazing life going on down there, it's like a whole other planet,that being said, I'm terrified of sharks and so I will respect their home and admire from afar 😍😍😍
I luv u
I've been flying drones looking for sharks for the past month now and I've grown such a respect for the ocean and the life that's in it. At the end of the day that's their home and we're merely guests in their house.
By just getting in the water you became part of the food chain.
Shark: "What's his problem ? I'm just catching a wave like I have for the last 30 years ?
Strange video has this many dislikes. What do you guys expect, him with GW selfie smiling next to her jaws? OMG, great video btw!
Roger Clemons you suk at life
Roger Clemons I’m not a surfer but they have as much right to public parking and beaches as anyone. If they wake up earlier and get there first, of course they’re going to take the best available spots, just as anyone else looking for parking would do.
At least he could have sacrifice a leg or an arm for our amusing. But nothing at all?!
Roger Clemons honestly who cares if they have to walk. We're all human, they 2 arms and 2 legs. Get over it
Roger Clemons Troll alert..
Count your blessings mate.
The number of shark attacks per year, worldwide, is minuscule. He's thousands of time more likely to die in a car wreck on his way to the beach.
San Onofre is a breeding ground for Great White's here in Southern California. Redondo Beach about 40 miles north is a Hammerhead breeding area due to the Redondo canyon drop off. Sharks are needed for the global management of our oceans. Part of the all. Fisherman forever Los Angeles
We went to Santa Cruz beach for the day and they were having life guard training that day for a bunch of young people. About 30 people had to swim way out about 200 yards and go around a couple markers and swim back, I was thinking "hell no!"
In the water, how far does the sound carry of a person shitting themself?
Gage Westerhouse I bet he pressed a putty or two into the croch of his suit ...
Not so much the sound, but the smell on the other hand....whew! Lol
I think you can see the vibration ripples in the water when he misses that wave and realizes he has to paddle in. 😂
Not nearly as far as a shark can smell it. There's a reason they call poop ''shark sugar''.
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The Benny Hill show theme song would be perfect for when the guy retreated to shore. Especially the fast forward part.
Surfing with sharks would be like skiing with polar bears lol
Scary, I've literally been to that beach. San Onofre is one of my favorite spots.
I love how every shark is a great white now! Like theres no possible way it could be a different shark