"You want me to stay with it or warn everybody?"
Great White sharks, in my newly developed legal/analytical mind, are mostly cold water beasts. Cold, dark, rocky water teeming with paranoid seals and thickly jacketed tug boat captains. Water off the coast of northern California and Oregon and so it regularly comes as a surprise to hear of the apex predators roaming southern Florida, for instance, or to see them, tank-sized and full of terror, stalking the crystalline warmth of Hawaii.
But there, yesterday, just off Makaha a giant beast slithered menacingly. Maybe hungry for the ghost of Da Bull, who helped bring fame to the bigger wave spot. Maybe hungry for a flesh and bone man and let’s watch the wild point of view footage as captured from the seat of a water rescue jet ski.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B77BIqwHKnr/
The radio can be heard crackling, “Copy that, how far offshore approximately?” to which the brave pilot replies, “About 200 yards. I’m tracking him right now to see if he’s going to the lineup.”
Then, “You want me to stay with it or warn everybody?”
Eventually the shark is scared back into deeper waters but chilling nonetheless.
Troubling.
No surfing in Hawaii for six days.
Possibly even seven.
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They need to be fished out and killed off for everyone’s sake. The reason they are stalking Florida and Hawaii is because the are over populating because of s*** for brains tree huggers
That shark isnt that big. It looks like it might be pregnant and if so might be looking for somewhere to give birth. Articles like this make us ignorant to the truth. That shark was more afraid of the people on the jet ski. Animals survive on instinct. We kill them take their homes and wonder why they attack us?? This shark is probably just trying to survive like everyone and everything.
Greg Noll isn’t dead, man!
“Stalking” – um, if it were stalking you wouldn’t see it.
“Brave pilot” – the shark was just swimming in a non threatening manner.
“Chilling” – not really
Way to perpetuate the man eater rep of an animal that kills maybe 50 out of millions and millions of people a year that get in the ocean.
Humans kill about 100,000,000 million sharks a year.
Lame article
The great white needs to be wiped out. They are seriously over populating.
Guy on the jetski has balls of steel
Ocean Rescue DID not close the beaches to surfing at Makaha. Lifeguards at Makaha, Yokohama & Pokai Bay put up shark warning signs..Sharks are Amakua to some of the Hawaiians so the last things Kanaka do is stop surfing because the ‘manō’ may be a relative…
“Tank”? More like hot water heater tank. Exaggerate much? Didn’t look much larger than the jet ski following it.
My home break is warm water and the occasional visit by GWS is not un common. Phalacy that Gws are cold water dominant.
What region is that? I’m trying to think of a warm water place that gets a lot of White sharks. South Baja? Africa?
Florida
east coat South Africa….not a lot, occasional ones we do see so probably a few more than that. Guys on fishing skis get a few encounters mostly tiger, mako and bull and then GWS….Protea Banks dive spot has quite a few GWS. Years back when the whaling industry was still operating there were a lot of GWS around….many pictures of anglers with rudimentary equipment (by todays standards) posing with their catch…GWS in excess of 1000Lb….15ft long not exceptional….
Thanks. Sounds like you get em all pretty much. Good luck and. stay safe.
“Wild POV footage” is great SEO but should be followed by “curious step sister” and “you won’t believe what happens next”
Looks like the Great White Shark birth tourism industry in Hawaii is being met by resistance from locals.
I’m sure the residents of Makaha are sad this video got out. Then again..if you choose to surf there you are probably not the type to worry about it.
Funny enough..my car which is on my profile never got broken into at Makaha.
Finally! 6 non shark articles in a row before this. I was worried you had given up the fight.
I reckon he was just taking a break between feeding frenzies.
A frenzied search for the fabled wolf pak. While never having eaten a wolf, he can’t stop thinking it must be one dakine tasty canine.
Even a great white will get scared off by the locals at Makaha……
Freerider this is your greatest comment ever!! So glad to see you do in-fact have a sense of humour!