Imagine packing up your fishing gear and hitting the water with your best friends. Spending the day casting your reel in hopes of catching fresh dinner or just a simple catch-and-release is a common pastime.
Although the majority of people fish from a standard boat or from a dock, a few friends in today’s video do so from kayaks. The gentleman in the middle sits in a red kayak and is confused about what’s on the end of his reel.
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In an instant, a shark thrashes its body to the surface of the water. The friends share expletives with one another, in shock at what they are seeing. Without missing a beat, the apex predator comes up again, this time biting the man’s kayak.
We’re sure they felt quite literally like sitting ducks, unsure of what would happen next. This encounter is all being filmed with a GoPro camera and the man filming sticks it underwater. No, there are no jumpscares of the shark rushing toward the camera.
Instead, we witness it flailing throughout the sea. The man then takes the camera and zooms in on the area of the vessel where the shark left bite marks! Shockingly, the man sitting in the kayak that the shark attacked places his hand eerily close to the water without knowing whether or not the creature would strike again.
Sharks can come closer to shore because of the warm water temperatures.
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Why Do Sharks Attack Boats?
Shark attacks on boats happen frequently, and there are various causes for this. Sharks are thought to confuse boats for creatures that might become their meal despite having excellent vision; as a result, they attack and violently strike boats.
Smaller watercraft, like kayaks, are particularly vulnerable to this kind of attack. Sharks are said to interpret this kind of thing as a possible sea lion or seal that they might eat. In addition, fascination may be another factor in a shark’s decision to go after a boat.
Great Whites don’t often attack boats.
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Sharks can only use their jaws to explore something odd or strange because they lack hands or fingers. Because the people in this video were fishing, the animal may have eaten whatever bait they were using, attracting it close to the water’s surface.
These apex predators often ram into boats and will even bite them in order to figure out what they are. It’s important to remember that humans and everything we have, including watercraft, are extremely foreign to marine life.
They use a bumping motion to learn more about their surroundings. When the sharks first approached the boats, their goal was not to harm the vessel or the souls onboard. Sharks typically do not intend to attack people, but there are reports of them attacking kayakers. Mako sharks and thresher sharks are some of the sharks that leap on watercraft most frequently.
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