As a fellow Aussie, I had a tear in my eye listening to those legends keeping our proud linguistic culture alive and well. I must say though, was a little disappointed that not a single crikey or strewth was thrown in though.
I grew up in Orkney, and still have friends up there. During the pandemic lockdown, a woman I went to school with was persuaded to go fishing with her partner, as she’d been furloughed and was going stir crazy. In the space of one day, they encountered a basking shark, half a dozen killer whales, and had every fish they caught stolen by seals. Her partner said she was either good luck or bad luck, because he’d never had a day like that in over 30 years of fishing.
@@Deliasdream Orkney is off the northeast coast of Scotland. Around 59 degrees north. It’s where the Atlantic Ocean meets the North Sea, and is rich in marine life. I grew up there, and have seen whales and seals many times, but I’ve never seen a basking shark. My dad saw one when he was in a yole (a seagoing rowing boat), and he said it scared ten years of life off him when it swim along side his boat for half an hour. I’m not sure which part of Orkney my friend went fishing - they left from near Stromness, and I assume they went south, but I didn’t think to ask.
Great to see footage of tuna around the U.K. coast. I was completely blown away when I learned that there used to be a commercial blue fin tuna fishery in the North Sea as recently as the early 20th century. Naturally it was completely over fished to the extent that the fishery collapsed, which is why we can’t have nice things.
The bluefin tuna is even back in Danish/Swedish waters - it is simply great! They must have made some recovery at least. If I get it right, commercial fishing is not allowed but there is a lot of research being done, so you can fish for tuna if there is a research boat close. They will tag the tuna and release it.
I don't know how common it is, but I had a Bull Shark take the entire back half of what we think was close to a 30-35 pound catfish from me as I was just about to haul onto the river bank. We were night fishing specifically for catfish, but had several lanterns going and we could clearly see the shark. What I don't understand though is why it waited until the fish was just a foot from shore to take it. The shark's front half came out of the water with the fish. I could see the entirety of it's pectoral fins. My cousin saw the dorsal fin and said there was a shark, but nobody really paid any attention to him, until.... When it swung itself back around into the water, we could see the dorsal fin until it was about 5 feet from the shore. Wish I noticed the fin before, maybe I could have saved my fish, but it was a worth the cost to have seen the shark. By the way this was in the Mississippi river, at the state line between the states of Arkansas and Tennessee on the far NE corner of the state, on the Arkansas side. We estimate that it was between 5-6 feet.
I’ve never known Bulls to be remotely common in that area of the Mississippi but I definitely believe it! I live in Kentucky and as an avid fisherman and shark enthusiast it sucks living so close but yet so far away to bodies of water with predatory sharks.
@@Bastikovski99 It is fresh water. This isn't the farthest inland sighting though. There was one "caught" in a fisheries survey just a few miles south of Michigan. Pretty sure it was a study where they use the electrodes in the water to temporarily stun the fish and it came up with the other fish. I read something a few years ago where one guy at least was working on measuring salt levels in the Mississippi following winter seasons with much longer snow into spring events, which meant more road salting etc, etc. but I searched for a publication and couldn't find one, either they didn't finish it, or haven't finished yet. But Bulls have the ability to switch their renal function to and from salt/fresh water management.
I went out at night with a friend who was a charter boat skipper. The sea was calm it was night and I was sitting in the back of the boat just relaxing. There was a light illuminating the water. A parade of sea birds was following our chum line. I would see a bird disappear like magic, no splashing. This happened several times. Eventually we caught a large blue shark. He was coughing up bird feathers all the way to the surface. I also saw a large Mako chasing a seal. This is one of many times I've seen sharks on a feed. These shark adventures happened off the coast of California near Catalina Island.
I had no idea Makos go after seals until around 4 months ago when I say a clip of it. Apparently the older ones get teeth more like Great Whites to help with this.
Tracking Sharks did a short on that white shark stealing that tuna too and I'd say that the shark looks to be at least 18 feet long. That clip of the mako shark doing a back flip was amazing. I saw that longfin mako shark thing too. Its unfortunate that it died in the end. That clip of the tuna chasing that basking shark was just incredible. I was thinking that it was doing that to remove debris from its skin. That's also what you said that a smaller shark that rubbed up against that whale shark in your other video was doing. TheMalibuArtist also filmed a group of fish chasing a juvenile white shark for the same reason too. Another awesome video Kris.🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈
That extremely blue mako was ridiculous. When I first saw it I was thinking it was a fake video because I personally have never seen a mako that was so blue and weird looking. But I guess this clears it up it was definitely a real shark. Thanks kris. ❤️🦈💯💯💯
Definitely the best is that big a$$ GW taking the tuna off those fisherman’s line. What an epic video to capture. Just fascinating. It’s amazing how you can’t even see the GW until it’s literally on the surface pretty much and it disappears into the water just as fast even though that is a very very big specimen. Insane!
If I was pulling up a tuna, and a white shark came out of no where I might have crapped my pants, but I'd also be in such awe to see such a magnificent creature! The commentary from the Australian fellows with their great white encounter was pretty funny too lmao. Great video as always!
@@sharks3653 it’s tough to say from the images/video we have available. Could be a post release mortality, but also could easily be diseased. Only those doing the necropsy will have the best understanding of it!
I live in Tasmania and fish from a kayak pretty regularly. Some of the things I’ve seen in the water would make your blood run cold. I’ve had close encounters with seals, dolphins, whales, and sharks in places including the river that bisects our capital, Hobart. The ocean can be a terrifying and awe inspiring place.
I've lost a lot of Yellowfin to Makos in the Gulf of Mexico. One off of a gaff , startled the heck out of me. I had to sit down for a minute after that.
When I was a kid, my Dad and I took an offshore charter to the gulf stream (off the coast of NC). We were trolling and hooked into a sizable wahoo. The captain in the crows nest suddenly starts freaking out about a massive hammerhead going for the wahoo on the line. After fighting the now hooked hammerhead for an eternity, it broke free because it really wasn't ever hooked. It just didn't want to let go. The captain and crew estimated it to be 5-6m in length. Never seen a veteran captain be so shook over an encounter. We got the head of the wahoo back and it was absolutely a massive one. Wild stuff.
These are all solid shark footages. I saw the Great white stealing the tuna vid before, and I thought that was really impressive, great whites are so chunky they're cute haha. Poor whale shark tho it just couldn't fight back from the orca eating it. The longfin mako clip was also sad, they are definitely rarer than their shortfin cousins but still as impressive looking.
It's the aussies with that beautiful great white.......had me absolutely howling🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 wat a massive shark, just stunning ❤ absolutely adore your channel....keep up the fabulous work ❤
Heyas, I've been a sub for a bit now, and appreciate your content and knowledge about sharks. It would be great if you ensured other people's clips were credited properly and linked in your description. Just to make sure the original posters of content could get traffic/views too. I noticed the Aussie video doesn't even have a creator name over nor the basking shark. Appreciate your work! ❤
I was fishing on a deep reef in the Indian Ocean. 8 hooks, one by one I could feel the fish being taken, after a while a mako surfaced to collect the remaining bits of fish that floated to the surface.
Several years ago I was talking with my neighbor, who used to live and work in Galveston, Texas. He used to walk out on a submerged sandbar to the edge of the shipping channel to fish. One evening he had a couple of snappers on a stringer attached to a cooler that was floating beside him when a shark came in, grabbed the fish, and took off with the cooler trailing along behind it. He watched the cooler head out about a quarter of a mile, turn, and begin heading back towards him. He didn't know if the shark was just heading up the channel or what, as he didn't hang around long enough to find out.
Sport fisherman from Tenerife, in the Canaries. Love what you do here by the way, especially your measured and balanced approach. About fish getting nommed by sharks, not too often but happens from time to time. Here in the islands we have a good variety of species, mainly pelagic or deep sea ones. I've had, in several ocassions, dentex and trevallies taken by big - 2.5 to 3+ metres - Smooth Hammerheads, mackerels and even jigs eaten by small sized - 1 metre - Common Smooth-hounds and even once a 1.5 metre Shortfin Mako that took my mackerel and got hooked in consecuence. All these ones broke off or were de-hooked and released as I don't fish for sharks - I like them and prefer for them to be swimming around and taking care of the local environment -. It is apparent they are oportunistic but fortunately it is not something so usual that becomes a problem, so I'm okay with that, makes up for a good story.
Yes happened off Cairns Australia, fishing for Coral Trout with handline winches and in the middle of the night just one fish after another either bitten off or half a fish on the line. Felt so small on that boat in the dark water knowing what was underneath.
I posted that clip of the Great White stealing that tuna to Twitter/X the moment I saw that thing for the first time. It was legit some of the craziest Great White footage I've ever seen!
The octopuses/octopi thing is a lovely opportunity for counter-smugness: "Look at those octopuses". "Actually its Octopi" 😏 "Well technically it comes from the Greek so is I think you'll find it's Octipodes" 😊
Noticed that you reduced the relative volume on that outro music and wanted to say 1) It was noticeable, and 2) thanks!! (Again, it's fab to have recognisable music, but it makes it impossible to watch these vids back-to-back for long without it becoming grating - and the algorithm does prefer long watchtimes! This is a great compromise.)
WOW. Just WOW! What will you do for next week after this amazing content. I really thought the Orca and Whale Shark were the top. But the tuna and basking shark was amazing. One question did you see how the fisherman caught basking shark had been fed up on? Other sharks?
Here in the gulf of mexico, it is very common to have to reel fast to get a fish past the bull sharks, particularly on the piers..Also common to catch a spinner or blacktip shark from the beaches. There are even fishery rules, that you have to release a half eaten fish, that has a size limit. But I will have to say the porpoises/ dolphins when they show up are worse and will sometimes wait for you, under your boat to catch something or wait for a catch and release. its easier to just leave when they show up.
I think I loved all of the videos :D Great job! :D although the GW just randomly slowing down and checking small boat and people gives me shivers! 'ah yes, is it time for my next meal or not? that is a question!'
5:29 they’re so unphased by the shark! Definitely the most Australian shark encounter I’ve ever seen XD Edit around 8 minutes…I mean, I would not have known what that animal was, I just would not have commented! I definitely laughed at ocean sun fish though XD Thanks again for another awesome video XD
Pen sa cola Florida. Lots of idiots fish for sharks from the beach and after being caught, manhandled and then released the sharks often die. Certain species are particularly affected by the stress and don’t survive the encounter. FWC has worked to minimize the activity and many of we Floridians would like to see the practice banned completely.
I died when he butchered Pensacola. 😂 Granted there’s a lot of hard to pronounce places everywhere. It’s just funny when you know the place and the pronunciation.
The hammerhead video is from St Croix in the US Virgin Islands. I live here. The shark chased a ray into the harbor, right off the boardwalk! I didn't see it personally but know many who did.
9:52 that's pretty cool, a giant male sea lion taking advantage of a random large warm-water fish in its home territory. Probably more often encounters them further offshore rather than usually chilly California inshore waters!
Not with sharks, but I've lost plenty of mackerel to seals who learned to follow us around the breakwater. Logic behind it is that a mackerel fighting against a line is a much easier target for the much slower seal. The infamous cow Sammy survived for at least two decades and would teach her young how to track fishermen on the breakwater. And it was well known that people wearing high visibility jackets would lose a much higher number to the seals. We reasoned that the bright clothing allowed the seals to recognise the telltale movement and posture of a man with a fish on the line much. And potentially learned to use the orientation of the man to predict the path of the incoming fish. I don't think the same could be said for sharks as I believe they're less socially intelligent and more instinctual. But it's at least great anecdotal evidence for the potential devious intelligence of marine predators
My favourite was definitely the massive Great White stealing whatever was on the end of the line. I saw a different version and when the shark comes out of the water and everyone on the boat screams, if you look closely the shark is actually startled by the screams. I’m not kidding. Watch it again with the sound on and you’ll see the 20 foot mega shark get startled. It’s awesome!!
I lived on the Great Barrier Reef in North Queensland, Australia and I've had sharks take or attempt to take fish many times. Mostly reef sharks or occasionally a tiger shark.
Yep it use to happen to my father a lot down here in South Florida. Many sharks down here have learned to hangout around fisherman, to steal their catch. You have a struggling fish caught up on a line, it's easy pickings. Even pelicans and other seabirds hangout for scraps.
I was crew on a research vessel and we used to put hand lines out trawling behind the ship to catch yellow fin tuna and we’d occasionally we’d pull them out with half the tuna missing in an obvious shark bite
I'm from the Gold coast Australia, and I was working on a deep sea fishing charter boat off the Tweed heads, where massive tiger sharks are common, but have had a shark that 'looked like' a great white but not 100% sure. A tiger and a black tip. But I also caught a 2.4M 'remora' or "sucker shish" and wondered what size of shark it was sucked onto!!! Haha
mako legit looks like you hit the fast forward button. we have clocked them going 60+ mph to catch up to teasers. god knows how fast they can actually swim.
Great video! Geez that hammerhead is huge. I fish. I can't remember a shark ever trying to steal my catch..... but I fish freshwater. Could that explain it? 😉 I definitely have had larger fish and turtles try to eat my catch. I've even a North American bass ignore the bait and try to swallow the bobber (float).
