Watch: Huge shark attacks startled angler’s kayak off Oahu
A Hawaii angler on Friday survived a harrowing encounter with a large shark that attacked his kayak as he fished off Oahu.
Scott Haraguchi captured the dramatic incident with a Go Pro video camera that was still running after he had landed a fish. (The footage is posted below.)
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Viewers can see the shark materialize off the bow a moment before it slams and bites the side of the kayak. Haraguchi kicks at the predator and immediately screams “Tiger shark!” as a warning to his nearby fishing companion.
The encounter occurred off Kualoa in Windward Oahu, not far from where a large tiger shark was spotted the next day.
Haraguchi, who was not injured, explained via YouTube that he heard a “whooshing” sound just before he saw the shark. “I looked up and saw a wide brown thing on the side of the kayak,” he recalled. “I thought it was a turtle at first.”
Tiger sharks, which can measure nearly 20 feet, commonly prey on green sea turtles.
But according to KITV 4, Haraguchi spotted an injured seal shortly after the shark attacked his kayak. He theorized that the shark mistook the kayak for the seal.
