Kayak Fisherman Is Surrounded by Great White Sharks 

100% agree, i also kayak fished for almost 25 years. I hope they see the video and the penny drops regarding this matte!

sometimes people need to learn their lessons the hardway.

well said!

@@fat54c The problem is the sharks get stigmatized by our society and the kayak people will get known as poor victims.

That's why you have a fish cooler you can pack your catch in. Your ringing the dinner bell

Yep

Can't fix stupid

and a kayak is so small. Easy to tip over, not much protection and stability at all.

Especially since kayakers have been attacked by Great Whites, Tiger sharks and Bull sharks.

My thoughts exactly

Maybe shark decided that this must be a trick by human to catch him!!!!!.....he wasn't falling for it!

Agree - most shark encounters with humans , the sharks instinct is that this is way too easy ,

Human exhibiting stupidity in this instance, dangling a distressed fish as bait. Then later on when attacked, they become helpless victims while the shark is only doing instinctively what it's born to do, catch food. Luckily for the stupid fishermen, it's not a tiger, much more a bull shark, that's out there...

​@@STUPIDRU-vid_HIDINGMSGSThe fish is on a stringer so that it can stay fresh. Fish lose flavor quickly after they die.

@@abdulkarimelnaas7595 yep, sharks love fresh fish alright.

They are in a vessel with basically zero protection, dragging live, flailing, bleeding fish. When something does end up happening to one of the fishermen, it will be the sharks that are made out to be the monsters, which can potentially end up getting many sharks killed. It's ridiculous the way they drag those fish (not to mention cruel to the poor fish).

@@nahaniyes totally agree

@@nahaniyes I don't know how they can go out there in a kayak. It's like a surfboard.

there's always people who think the risk is okay and they're the ones who will get hurt if things go wrong. Too bad this trains sharks to associate kayaks/fisherman with food and builds courage in them smfh.

Too bad kayaks don't come with live wells like boats - that would be amazing

@@haverscutie They make livewells for kayaks. Hobie makes one that fits on all their kayaks.

@@SSHitMan oh that is perfect- I had no idea- so why would someone use a stringer in white inhabited waters ? Are the live wells pricey?

@@haverscutie They're mostly for bait, and cost about $400. For keeping fish most kayak anglers use a cooler or fish bag.

Thanks Lisa!

I think what made the situation a little bit less tense is that most sharks in the area this was filmed seem to be young. As the videos of this channel show they will often be very careful if they face a thing what is as big as they are. Maybe a greater shark, 15 feet long or so, would have acted different? But I think it is indeed a very risky behavior to put a wounded fish in the water in areas in which greater sharks of any kind are known to be present. I mean it is the same why you should not have food in your tent if you sleep in bear-areas. You almost ask for troubble... The animals are no monsters, but they are powerful and you should not create a situation which increases the risk of an attack.

Should dangle his legs in the water also. He’s a gambler, might as well up the ante…

great and interesting videos though! I really do enjoy them. I’m just bummed, cause idk how to prepare for situations like this.

Chumming trains the whites to follow kayaks, duh!

Sad that fishing kayakers seem so oblivious to the areas they fish in.

But what if they can detect their presence? We need someone to do real world testing.

they are basically superior means of observing in .... pretty much all situations

It's simple for them to exclude him. He gives information without dramatizing. They need people that just instill fear, not people with a brain. So he probably won't be invited.

@@UserNamesAreObsolete here here It’s such a joke that young guy who used to work with them in South Africa has remarked time and time again about Osearch And their practices being barbaric Whenever he is interviewed outside of the shark week stuff he also has a habit of dropping lots of subtle hints concerning not wanting to stress the sharks and wanting to study them in their own environment as much as is possible I have noticed even the guy from the American East Coast will not haul them out of the water and uses tags that detach! How long is shark week going to back these idiots!

​@Magnetmountain33 they will stop when there is no audience people keep watching they won't stop

@@lovesallanimals9948 quite when will people get it this is the only way to observe sharks accurately! Did you see when it spotted the drone shadow ? then spy hopped while trying to bite the shadow, and realised the drone was above it, and then trying to jump out of the water at it so these drones need a good zoom and a pilot with this level of knowledge to avoid affecting the sharks behaviour if the drone is made and we’re talking in a totally different medium These sharks are visual predators in particular great whites and mako. No wonder there is a problem with predicting the behaviour. Interacting in any direct medium, not only completely changes their behaviour and also risks over stimulation and potential for injury particularly if they are swimming outside of the cage or in one of those useless Perspex boxes. As for Osearch!!! Their contract should have been gone as soon as it was exposed! Can you believe they had enough clout to be able to have the channel that exposed them shadow banned……. Same as all the flat earth research! Shadow banned the hell out of it! And they expect us to believe there’s nothing wrong with their model! Crazy, when you think the AI chat algorithms had to be switched off because they immediately found truth in conspiracies across the web and began talking in their own language and distrusting the people who programmed them by drawing the logical conclusion that Authority is untrustworthy 😂 One of them actually use the Lord Acton quote ! During one of the On Line interactions! There is some truth to the saying in the Bible that you have to view the world through the eyes of a child, can you believe they just forced the ball emoji on me, the second I said the word world 🌎 I Guess that’s why they call it government 😂

What are you, high? He didn't warn the boater! He was there to get the shot! He could easily have gotten their attention earlier. I fly drones and know he's full of it!

Do you not bleed your catch or do you bleed it in the cooler?

@@emmansk7 I just bleed it really fast in the kayak, quickly rinse it, zip it in the cooler back and clean off the deck. Then paddle quickly away from the kill site. You just have to be careful and a little lucky.

We had a spearfisher taken by a great white a while back where I live. All they found of him was a small part of his wetsuit. His son was with him when he was taken but got away safely. A while after that a diver was killed near where her partner was spearfishing. We're a known high fatality spot for great whites (Perth, western australia) but people still do it. Crazy.

Uhhhhh, how selfish and stupid can you be???? Kayak fishing, and any ocean fishing for that matter, is entering wildlife habitat and stealing whale, seal, shark, etc, food. You can find any of the 80,000 edible and medicinal plants that grow on the planet to eat. These ocean dwelling creatures cannot! Anyone who fishes deserves to be attacked!

@@tileuxMore like selfish, egocentric, and stupid!

What a great place to live!

Really good point

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They’re in waters known to have whites so, yes, it’s surprising that they are essentially trolling halibut. Sharks may be intelligent and cautious but, there is plenty of other video evidence showing them going after chum bait chunks on the end of ropes, so you can’t watch this video and a shark being cautious and then make the assumption that the shark is going to leave the fish alone. Had the man left the fish in the water, it’s entirely possible that the shark would have eventually felt confident enough to grab them. It wouldn’t take much to pull the kayak over and who knows what would have happened after that.

@@28th_St_Air I don't even know how to respond. Can you point out exactly what I said that you are responding to? Your comment reads a though you added information (in your mind) that does NOT exist in my comment.

@@nikkilovesrocks I can see how my message seemed to stray beyond most of the meaning of your comment. It was your first sentence that I may have misinterpreted. You seemed to be saying that people shouldn’t be shocked that they were stringing their catch. I was saying that, considering they are fishing in waters known for whites, it is surprising and also stupid as hell.

@@28th_St_Air Yeah, totally agree! Not the smartest way to keep'em fresh. I grew up here in Southern California coast & I've enjoyed the beaches since before I can remember. All my family surfs/boards & we haven't seen a white ever. This channel has taught us that we most definitely have swam with the "Fish are friends NOT Food!"Lol It's from a movie. It really is a delicious fish to eat seared with a butter crust served with a cream tarragon lemon caper sauce drizzle & a side of wild rice. 😋 Now I have to go fishing for some halibut. Take Care Sir!

Wise spear fishermen keep their catch in a closed container on the surface. And they drop it in the container immediately after catching it.

Maybe Aussie great whites are grumpier bc they occasionally share ocean waters with big grumpy salties.

Great Whites are transient. One also only hears about the negative encounters, not the many times a GW was nearby and was uninterested and no encounter occurred. Therefore one is biased towards thinking that they are always aggressive towards humans. Here, in South Africa, we see GWs chilling in the surf near surfers all the time. I think they enjoy it.

the ones here in SoCal are probably teens or sub adults--they might view a Kayak as a larger predator...trying to 'filch' a meal might be dangerous or even fatal. Nevertheless, they might learn that they CAN, in fact, grab the catch without much danger; Now Hal from 'Sharks Happen' is of the opinion that Kayaks and boarders are a point of aggression for larger white sharks--THEY view the object as 'intruding' into their chosen spot to feed, hunt or patrol, and they act accordingly.

@@fenzirulfr Mexican, Cal, Oregon and probably Washington and BC white sharks have those expanding seal colonies (especially elephant seals) they patrol==big, fat and full of calories. These HUGE pinniped colonies of 'plus size', easy to catch pinniped snacks don't exist in Australia (or the Med for that matter, another one time hotspot of total consumption attacks by white sharks). White sharks are more mobile and their diets more varied: fish, rays, sharks, sea birds, reptiles, and mammals of various kinds. They are willing to take advantage of feeding opportunities when they happen. Some white sharks have simply adapted to a bony primate being a viable meal. You COULD say that humans are the cause of 'unfriendly' white shark encounters: the US marine mammal protection act allows seals and sea lion number to expand; White sharks are also protected from human harassment in many places, so THEIR numbers expand. With lots of food and growing numbers of white sharks, it's only a matter of time before we get more 'encounters'.

@@fenzirulfr Probably; the water in the surf zone is well oxygenated and warm so it allows younger/teenage white sharks to be 'switched off' for a while.

Thank you so much!

Ja, Haier sind auch meine Lieblingstiere seit mehr als 37 Jahre.

@@stephencook7337 schön zu hören, Stephan! Ich hätte nie gedacht, das die Ansicht gegenüber Haien sich so positiv verändert. Dank Hollywood mussten und müssen diese faszinierenden Tiere sich doch grausame Maßnahmen über sich ergehen lassen. Einen schönen Sonntag wünsche ich dir!!!

I debated that actually. But went with the conservative number. That is a big shark then!

Were they both using the pedal drive system? I saw one kayaker pedaling. Could the pedal drive system attract sharks?

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That's what I thought. A kayak is so small, tips over easily, way out in open water like that.

That's part of the adrenaline rush .

@@Bobby-ei6ew I knew a guy who had that exact thing happen to him. His panic set in when he realised it wanted him. he set off a beacon. The water police found the upturned kayak hours later. The "rush" didn't last long :-/

@@windingdriveway brutal . That's part of it also . Sorry you lost your friend .

He’s knows more about sharks than you, and doesn’t need your assurance

@@ate_shroom No need to be rude. You don't know the level of knowledge this person may have. They simply offered their help if it is wanted.

In the 90's a couple got eaten while kayaking from paradise cove to pt. dume. two different kayaks, both killed.

Yes, in the 80's a couple were attacked and killed while kayaking. I think the legs belonged to the woman. It was all that was found of them.

it was either 88 or 89.

The concept of going out in shark-infested open waters seems moronic.

Have you learned nothing from this channel?

So clever they chose not to evolve for the present. 🤣

@@andrewsamuelsen2570 What? They don't need to evolve anymore. They are perfect for their surroundings.

And not unlike a bear, they don't show aggression until they do!

Much appreciated.

@@TheMalibuArtist you do fantastic work. Your footage goes a long way in undoing some of the bad rep that Great Whites have

That would deviate the purpose of the channel which is “to observe”. If a drone goes underwater, for sure sharks would notice them and have a reaction.

It's a predator stalking....😄

Sharks have no concept of "respect" you tool. Just kill, bite, eat and swim. Smfh

Yep. Complete idiots, just because it didn't happen then it will happen if you push your luck.

Right. I can’t stop watching!

You always swam amongst sharks. Now you know they almost never attack.

You can take some precautions, don't swim at usual feeding times, around 5pm. Don't swim in overcast weather, and if you see seals stay out of the water. In fact, in Malibu, a shark attack has only happened once. So enjoy swimming in Malibu. 🙂

I would say they are no question smarter than “We” know.

@@knowjusticeknowpeace15 Maybe the word smart/smarter is not the right word here. Maybe it should have been (INTUITIVE)?