I've surfed for 26 years, but I gave it up about 9 months ago. I had a shark attack happen next to me in June of 2021 in NC and it slowly took a toll on my mental state in the water. Constantly waiting for something to bite me while sitting in the lineup. It's all good, I still love the beach, still love to ride my longboard down the road. But floating in the ocean aint for me anymore. Mad props to watermen like Tamayo, who devote their lives to the ocean in an awesome way. Such a sad story. Thanks for the video.
Do you think attacks are increasing? If so, is it because sharks are protected and/or their prey is protected ie we no longer cull Great Whites, so they've increased. Obviously more people in the water & less fish. Maybe increased water temp??
@@TheAgentAssassinApparently depends on the shark. Great whites don't care at all about shark bands. Some kinds do, but I reckon it's sharks that aren't a threat to humans anyway.
Lol it’s funny to see people say this as a kid who grew up in the ocean surfing, fishing etc and I always surf by myself hahah and never think twice eh
Tamayo was one of the best in our generation and we’ve surfed goat island together a lot. He used to live there he’s surf goats a bunch in his life. It’s a sharky spot, have seen them out there, it’s a sketchy spot. One of the nicest guys in the entire surf scene it’s unfathomable that happened to him of all people.
@@angelabennett-engele1977 thank you. Feel for his wife and kids and family. I'm distant friend from part. Hard to think of anyone being killed by a big tiger they are so strong and vicious.
Tamayo will be missed. He was a pro surfer, a lifeguard on the North Shore of Oahu and an actor. The surfing and ocean rescue communities along with many others will miss him. He lost an arm and a leg to the Tiger shark that got him. Incredibly sad.
He was surfing in a place where surf photographer JON MOZO had an encounter with a really large Tiger shark a few years ago. Its one of the shakiest spots in East OAHU
See now why nobody told me that when I was there 😢 to be fair couldn’t find someone I trust to go seek them out and won’t go alone cause that’s asking for problems. To be fair I’ve been tempted by the big drop off from bowls to diamond head but without a boat that’s asking to disappear without a trace, still tho they definitely a few hanging out there that’s 100% certain, thing is they might stay pretty deep or a bit off it. Kinda how it was in the Red Sea, mako stalked me but never came close enough for me to see him, camera god him good in the distance tho. Looked right at it cause I felt being watched and my spidey sense tingled for a moment but I did not see him (I knew 100%) he was there. Still can’t believe I looked right at it and only saw blue but that mf saw plenty of me but left pretty quick cause my spidey sense stopped tingling after a few minutes. Thought it was in my head till after I came back from the dive and saw the pictures. See it clear as day lurking in the distance probably just 20-30m away max. Open ocean is scary and the Red Sea as beautiful as it is is terrifying for so many reasons. Def doing it again tho, I don’t learn.
It infuriates me watching that footage of those people messing with, harassing and torturing sharks!! They are NOT entertainment! Something to play with! LEAVE THEM ALONE!
@@greenrush4313 what on earth are you talking about??? Hal reported on this attack very professionally, like hundreds of other news outlets and channels did. I think you need to grow up.
RIP Tamayo Perry. That really sucks but, when you get in that water you're a fool if you think it'll never happen to you. A team of wild mules couldn't drag me in that water. If there's one shark in the entire ocean, Im convinced he'll catch me.
I live in the cooler Pacific Northwest along the Columbia River. I know I'm safe here because, so far (knock on wood), bulls do not like cold freshwater. As great as sharks are at adapting, I'm sure that'll be changing soon.
It’s funny especially in Hawaii cause y’all worry about the wrong thing 😂 3 years surfing any swells I could and diving any time I could specifically looking for sharks. Even free dived at electric beach when a current brought in so much sand all along the west coast for whatever reason. Went all the way to the pipe and still couldn’t even see my fins or my buddy if we weren’t basically touching. Once we realised it’s not going to get better and this is a bad idea we left a nothing happened. To this day I’m not sure why I even went to check it out, I know way too much about sharks to do stupid sht like that. So 3 years never saw the tigers I was seeking but you want to know how many times I’ve almost went for the wrong wave and would have smashed head first into the reef or how many times I over did it and almost ran out of energy to fight some channels on the way back on big days. The answer is too many to count with a dozen that were really close call as in if I didn’t bail or pull out of it early I was a goner or at least breaking a limb. 10ft logs smashed me so hard in a patch of sand I could feel the two concrete slabs on either way and knew I get slammed just a foot to the right or left whatever hits is breaking on impact guarantee. With that one absolutely as close as you can get to kicking the bucket at Haleiwa early morning maybe 5 dudes out ad decisions lead me to a beating with no breath, at the time I didn’t know 8-10ft Haleiwa is very committed to claim your life and it got within a second I’d say, had I been held for one extra second or two I wouldn’t have made it back up. Being in the impact zone my leash breaks no one is finding my body and even if he doesn’t by the time anyone noticed I’m already a goner cause no lifeguards on duty that early and I was a good distance from the line up and honestly I wouldn’t want someone to risk their lives to come fish me out because I was being dumb. I made it out but was fine with going that way, I pushed too far and I last. I fought with everything to get that breath but if that wasn’t enough then I was ok saying GGs I had a good life. All this to say I’ve dived with a few sharks by now, got stalked by another few and yet never had the feeling of impending doom I’ve had during big swells or not even that big a swell. 8ft ain’t big but just a couple bad decisions consecutively and before you know it your fate is already locked. My advice is worry about the ocean before you worry about a shark cause the ocean will absolutely try and kill you or humble you whichever comes first.
@@The-GreenHornet you were interested enough to read it so ironic. Maybe stop scouring comment begging for attention and interjecting in conversation that have nothing to do with you with useless input and perhaps open trusted sources and go find the local witnesses to get your facts. Honestly I’m just curious but don’t care, people die everyday if we were to stop everything we are doing because of this fact then we’d end up doing nothing until we die. So mourn, cry a little and move on that’s what he wants. You don’t need to scour comments trying to be a dick to cope 🙃
Hi, Hal! I saw another video on yesterday's shark fatality. He lost an arm and a leg. They said that he paddled to Goat Island. Then, when he didn't return from his lunch break, they searched for him and found him as described earlier. OX
There’s been or will be an autopsy tho? Cause if he been missing that long can’t tell if he drowned or shark actually went for him. Tigers will scavenge. I mean it’s less likely here but there’s literally a monster that went to jail for a murder he had though he got away with years later because of a tiger shark of all things. Basically during the Capone days of ditching people in the harbour a shark happened to eat a corpse arm just before getting caught. They found the arm in it and traced it back to the mobster who went to jail cause now there was a body to trace him back to. Imagine committing murder and then spending half a decade or a decade I don’t remember how long thinking you Gucci just for a shark to ruin your sht 😅 couldn’t even write that
Do you even know the numbers? How many people do you think swim in waters on any given day? 300,000? 500,000? 1,000,000? How many of those are attacked by sharks in any way?
@@fixxxer7030 Why does someone always get upset when a person says they don't want to swim in the water? It doesn't affect you in any way. Most of us are well aware the chance is miniscule, that doesn't mean we have to take it. The sharks are better off, too when humans stay out of the water. I just see it as a win-win situation.
@fixxxer7030. I don’t give a d@mn if it’s one chance in 10 billion, being eaten alive by a predator twice my size is not a chance I will ever take no matter how minuscule. If you want to, then go ahead. No one is stopping you. I don’t know why you would care if I take the chance or not unless you’re just trying to sound smart by stating statistics anyone can find on the internet.
@@sxmvp Thank you. I had a scary and traumatic occurrence that happened to me in 1976 with a shark in San Diego, CA. I haven't been in the water since. My choice my number.
Never go in the ocean alone. If you take 1 friend, you chance of being attacked just lowered by half. Take 2 friends it's lowered to 1/3. Take a friend who's a shark magnet and don't get close to him you lower your chances of being the one attacked.
Have two good friends moved to Hawaii over 30 years ago Both would rather scuba dive than eat One is a former USN Air-see rescue swimer stationed on Aircraft Carriers during Vietnam They literally scuba dive 4-5 days a week weather permitting Both told me the see huge Tiger sharks every year talking 16 to 18 footers but last few years are seeing more and more really big Tiger sharks ones even 19-20 feet long twice a year at least now and expect to see Tigers 15-16 feet long crazy thing is they both still dive as much as ever because they get harassed by Tigers they encounter every year They both told me they NEVER dive alone and always dive in group's of 4 or more and everyone stays close. Both told me if tourists KNEW just how many big Tiger sharks are in Hawaiian waters they'd never go swimming Sorry wouldn't be me
I work for a company based on Maui, have many friends living on the island, have lived there myself 20 years ago, and it’s still my favorite place in the world. You are 💯 correct- many, many attacks go unreported and/or are purposely kept off the public radar. I know of a woman who quit her job at one of the major hotels, after a guest had been attacked earlier that week, and the hotel did not put up any notices/warnings. Tourism is not only Big Business, it is THE Business in certain parts of the world. The Cameron Robbins attack (Bahamas 2023) is a Netflix doc waiting to happen…
I believe this. I was on the big island last August. I swam out 500 yards with just a mask and snorkel all by myself no one around. I also hand a go pro. I didn’t realize since it was 5pm the tide was going out so I almost drown. I barely got back and the entire time I was recording behind me waiting for a tiger to snatch me up. It was terrifying. I have a lot of injuries too so never should have done that. Really stupid.
If that polar bear bites you it’s only because he was curious or it was only just mistaken identity. So don’t worry, go back and have some fun around those bears.
"Our shark.....Fairwell and adieu to ye fair Spanish ladies. Fairwell and adieu ye ladies of Spain. For we have received orders for to sail back to Boston, and never more shall we see you again...he he ha ha Lol Lol."
You obviously have a real job. Guy died doing what he loved and spent every day of his life in bliss. It is not a loss if you know anything about liberty. It is about the pursuit of happiness for those who are actually free.
Thanks for covering this and caring about the safety of others. Just saw a notification regarding it from local online newspaper. I vaguely remember him from Blue Crush. Guess he took one risk too many. Hard bitter pill for family and friends to swallow.
It’s good that you try to get the real story out immediately before authorities start putting the word out that it was a boating accident or Jack the Ripper.
Anyone who thinks that just doesn’t define their terms well, so confusion would have lead them astray. I mean, impossible is outside the ream of possibility, so probability isn’t relevant. If one understands something is improbable, per the standard definition, they also understand it’s definitionally possible, and so they’d be contradicting themselves to think it’s impossible they’d get taken out by a shark. Not to be a dictionary Nazi or whatever, but seriously, anyone thinking like that is confused about what those words mean, and maybe should avoid dangerous situations completely.. 🤷♂️
@@nikolademitri731 While the distinction between "impossible" and "improbable" is important, the phrase "The improbable is only impossible until it becomes your reality" is meant to emphasize the unpredictable nature of life and to encourage vigilance. People often underestimate unlikely events because they seem distant or irrelevant until they occur. The phrase serves as a reminder that rare events can happen, urging individuals to be prepared and avoid complacency. It's less about misunderstanding definitions and more about recognizing that improbable events are part of reality and can impact anyone.
Here in Scotland I saw the recent attacks in Florida on the news, but I didn't see or hear anything about this. Poor guy,but surfing alone in Hawaii?He probably should have known better
He's probably done the same thing about five thousand times. Do you say 'well he was driving a car. he probably should have known better' when people die in random road accidents where they're not at fault?
@@aaaaaaasdee Car accidents and shark attacks are apples and oranges. Most car accidents are often the fault of one or more people involved. But either way, there are people around and help can be called if there's time for you to be saved. If you're in the ocean, you are sharing it with wild life that can hurt or kill you. If you're injured by anything out there, time is of the essence, especially where shark bites are involved. Being that he lost an arm and leg, its likely not promising that he could have survived it under the best of circumstances unless the bite placement allowed for tourniquets to be applied at both sights in time. But we'll never know because he was alone and lost his life before that could be established. I guarantee you he was not thinking of the "thousand of times he had been out there" without that happening. Bottom-line - he died young and by a predator in the ocean. Not a Chevy...
@@Playitstraight44 You typed a whole lot of words to say literally nothing. What is your point? That you should always completely minimize risk for every single thing you do? How? What does that even look like? Is that remotely practical? Everything you do in life has a level of risk. People surf solo (a seemingly risky activity) in many thousands of locations every single day and the number of shark attacks on lone surfers are absolutely minuscule. Similarly, people drive cars without thinking about it (an actually "risky" activity, with lifetime risk of motor vehicle death being a bit higher than 1% for regular car users - astronomically higher than any calculation you could make for lifetime risk of death by shark attack in any location on earth except for specifically a few locations on the southern coastline of Australia) and yet it would obviously be foolish to state that maybe someone who just got mashed to death in a car wreck 'probably should have known better'.
@@aaaaaaasdee whenever someone makes a comment about someone being killed by a shark I know I'm going to see a reply about people getting killed in car accidents, every time. The thing is, the majority of people probably drive a car,especially if they have a family, they need their car to go to work, go to the supermarket, drop their kids off at school etc,driving their car every day is something they have to do. Swimming or surfing in water inhabited by giant fish that can decapitate you is not something people have to do every day, it is just stupid. It's their choice of course
@@tabeccaletford408 I use the car example because it is an EXTREMELY dangerous activity (compared to surfing) that normal people do every day without thinking about it and in any remotely livable city or area, driving a car absolutely is a choice. You could instead choose to take much safer transport options or move to somewhere that has those options available. Nobody is putting a gun to your head saying you need to drive your car and you're an absolute midwit for thinking that retort is a 'gotcha' of any kind. I don't need to use car fatality statistics. There are a plethora of other relatively safe activities that people die doing at far greater rates than surfers being attacked by sharks. Here are just a few avoidable activities that have much higher risk of killing you than what happened to Tamayo: recreational cycling, skateboarding, canoeing, swimming in non pelagic bodies of water or swimming pools, owning a dog, hiking in the mountains, being even slightly overweight, accidentally taking too much medication (opioids, etc), accidental gun discharge in a farming or pest control context. Do you truly think that anyone dying due to not minimizing risk in every single aspect of their lives to avoid any and all extremely unlikely outcomes that may cause injury or death extremely infrequently should be ridiculed or called 'stupid'? Or that people should say 'haha well they should have known better'. If someone you know died while cycling, should people post 'She probably should have known better' online?
Just heard on another channel (Tracking Sharks) that his arm and leg were gone. Going all the way to Goat Island on a board (basically open water) is enough of a risk. Alone is just suicide.
I was out swimming the other day and i'm pretty darn sure I saw one inside a wave. There is a bunch of Whites hanging around right now. 3 weeks back we had an attack on a swimmer
We just got back from Hawaii. We stayed on Wikiki Beach, and looking out our hotel window at 5:00 a.m., there were already dozens of surfers out in the water, which multiplied to hundreds later in the day. Many of these people were at least a half-mile out, and by themselves. Many were still out there at dusk, near darkness. Crazy.
Yes. I used to surf way outside Diamond head. The first time , I was fifteen years old . Very spooky . You see a rock or the reef and think it's a shark . I lived and surfed at various places on Oahu , but ironically I never saw a shark. But of course knew they were likely around. Moved back to Florida in 81 , and have seen many sharks .
I just saw this on the news. Sharks are wrecking people this year. This is what they do. It’s their territory their house out there. Hope this sinks some common sense in the wacky ocean Ramsey
Has nothing to do with people diving else you’d have like hundred of thousands of people missing a year. That being said attacks are on the rise and if the Red Sea shows us everything it appears the combination warmer waters and overfishing mean hungrier sharks who have nothing to eat. So we aren’t on the menu but we sure are making sure we will be the last thing on the menu. Already happening in the Red Sea perhaps we starting to notice in other places. So unfortunately the common sense needs to trinckle down to people using km long nets scooping everything cause soon they’ll be out of a job and worse case scenario if things escalate fast we might be out of food completely because if land based ecosystems depend on marine ecosystems which we killing off the way evidence suggest then it’s a quick domino affect till we starving. Ironically the “smartest” species will be the first to drive it self to extinction knowing full well by then what it’s up to. Its kinda fitting actually
Wow, dude was a famous surfer from the around the 2000s. This is wild. I'm getting my surf news from Hal now 😅 Theres beautiful spots empty in Hawaii, usually very sharky. Use your sixth sense, if it feels weird it probably is
Authorities are not ruling out any of the 'Big Three," but he did sustain multiple bites that resulted in the loss of a leg and arm. Considering the area that he was in and his type of injuries, it appears to be a Tiger Shark attack.
@@femalecaks I've actually gone into restaurants and found that they do serve food that's not on the menu. Then again I've actually never seen a menu in the ocean.
The shark isn't going to go for anyone other than the person it has put the work into attacking. You do here sometimes where a person is attacked and someone comes to rescue and then there attacked. I think it doesn't happen very often still.
In the 90's i worked with the isaf. Most those shark atracks on surfers are hands or feet getting bit by a blacktip in the florida surf. Tiger attacks seemed to debone the body part always severing an artery.
Hey Hal, thank you so much for another great video! I was told about this and was just waiting for you to tell us the details you had. Keep up the great work! From the UK 😊🇬🇧
Hi Hal, I certainly enjoy listening to you and i find your vids extremely entertaining along with being very educative in your observatory approach! Giving people your thoughts and reasonable views instead of science/current media bs is so refreshing. Anyways I was going to ask you about some attacks on Turkish waters, since they have a massive coastline in the mediterrian but so few attacks, also the biggest assumed mako was caught there back in 1950s which was over 5 meters long. So Im curious if you can find anything about shark attacks down there?
I just heard about this this guy he had such a interesting adventerous life. Honestly never go into the water alone just as Hal said slowly the summer attacks are starting to pour in. My thoughts go out to his friends and family.
According to one article, Mr. Perry's attack was only one of 42 recorded incidents that have occurred in that area since 1828. It was certainly a terrible stroke of misfortune.
In those waters it was almost certainly a Tiger. Great Whites stay off shore because the water inshore is too warm for their liking and Bulls for some reason either are not numerous in HI or just aren't aggressive there or both. You never hear of bull shark attacks in HI.
I’ve surfed Hawaiian islands since I was a kid Oahu born. All surfers who spend serious time in waves 🌊 come across and have shark encounters. I’ve been really close to BIG tigers on the west and east side but it wasn’t my day. We respect them as we should and go in when needed. It’s part of our life but it’s sad to lose our brothers and friends this way .. they are now as we will be someday part of the ocean 🌊 RIP Tamayo Perry🌺🌊
I live in Hawaii. Never surf alone. They are all around us and attacks are extremely rare. This was the first deadly attack recorded on a non maui Hawaiian island since they started recording attacks in the early 90s
Another great single attack show Hal. 🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈 Mr Perry could have easily drowned and was scavenged. It's 50 50. If it was a shark attack, I suspect a tiger shark or a bull shark. I agree that the statement that those 3 shark attacks in Florida were by the same shark is ludicrous. Also, you're again correct that it's that time of year that people are going in the water. The sharks aren't the problem, the people are.
Great whites are very rare in Hawaiian waters. usually just passing through during migration, mostly during the winter months. Goats is known by locals for being “very sharky”, and they are referring specifically to Tiger sharks. There is at least one freshwater stream that empties into the ocean in that area, and it’s also a well known tiger shark nursery. (The mamas return to the same nurseries not only for reproduction, but to mate.with male sharks). 99.9% certain this was a large Tiger.
Him being a local life long Hawaiian surfer, when the topics of sharks entered his mind he likely had the oh so common attitude of "if it's my time to go it's my time to go at least I'll die doing what I loved." I wonder what his thoughts were while he was being attacked and eaten.
Do you think it would be nice if, for example, you had a horrific car accident, or cancer from eating a slightly carcinogenic food that you liked, or some freak accident doing a hobby you are involved in, and someone posted a similar snide comment on a video detailing your death? 'haha i wonder what wendaltvedt4673's thoughts were while he was dying painfully lol!!' Keep in mind lifetime risk of fatal car accident is astronomically higher than any calculation you could make for lifetime risk of shark attack for surfers.
@@aaaaaaasdee I know you are triggered. But my comment was not meant to be funny or snide. I have a genuine morbid curiosity of what goes through the minds of shark attack victims as it's happening to them because it's one of the most terrifying ways to die. It's no different than people who watch true crime shows or are interested in serial killers because they are curious about the psychology and what makes them snap. It's a perfectly normal human characteristic to be curious of such things.
@@wendaltvedt4673 Can't imagine getting triggered by a youtube comment. Your use of language made it seem like you were being snide so I guess I misinterpreted your post. If it's just morbid curiosity, go ahead.
I believe in many of these horrible tragedies, a powerful strike is felt and the victim loses consciousness, quickly, due to massive blood loss. I truly think that the feeling of fear is brief; and they simply go to sleep.
