Great White Shark Attacks Fishing Boat Off Santa Cruz Coast

Great Whites are really good at acclimating to the California coastal waters. They are in a target rich environment for food supply. Common sense tells you that swimming off of the coast is dangerous so I recommend taking your friend to a swimming pool where there are noooo great whites to be seen or that will rock the boat (so to speak)...

"It was this big" sounds like a typical fisherman's story lol

So, they didn't feel like putting up a warning, "because it happened 1/4 of a mile out"??? 1/4 of a mile = 400m. A great white's cruising speed is about 8km/h, so it would cover that distance in about 3.5 minutes... At cruising speed... Now, as it's attack speed is about 20km/h it could hypothetically cover the distance in less than 1.5 minutes... But no need to put up a sign or anything, let's just assume that it isn't attracted by people splashing around like seals... It's amazing how little work you can get away with, by careful application of assumption...

You call it ambitious, I call it a nightmare .

Swim with others so you all look like a bunch of seals.

"We're gonna need a bigger boat." Roy Scheider as Chief Brody in JAWS

I was fishing off ano nuevo just north of there in the 70s . We were looking at a small sea lion playing around next to our boat . the shark came from under and drove the sea lion about 6 feet in the air . He chomped it in half , circled back and swallowed the rest . the birds came in and inside a minute there was no trace anything had happened . Incredible sight . Never heard of this but gotta question how serious that fish was . Didn't look like what it could have done if it really had a mind to .

In pairs and to use barbecue sauce instead of sun screen.

Might be that the shark was "fishing kayaks" and mistook that boat for one...The fishers out there in the kayaks are educating sharks about easy meals on floating trays...;)

"Come out to the coast", you said. "We'll have a few laughs", you said.

Oh. No. It’s January 18th, 2019, and there’s people who think Great White Sharks are safe to swim with. The bigger, and older means more relaxed, and docile. These people claim they can predict if the sharks are aggressive. Jesus.

I guess I need to find a real slow swimmer to go with me when I go out again.

If you're in the ocean, you're on the menu.

Swim in pairs in case Mr. Great White is really hungry!! Lmao

That's fucking horrifying because what if he didn't have is bearings and got knocked out of the boat which is more than probable what the shark was trying to accomplish. Personally I find nothing more beautiful yet equally as terrifying as our world's oceans!

Should always swim in pairs, getting from the beach to where your swim partner went down is impossible. Need to be close by with your GoPro to record them drowning or being eaten.

lol swim together like a group of seals to ward off the sharks ......Genius farmer genius

Enter the water in pairs because one person may not be enough for a hungry shark.

Wow attacked from below........ Usually they attack from the sky 🙄

0:49 Orcas can splash seals off ice sheets to grab them when they hit the water (in the wild) and can lure birds near the water with fish to grab them (in captivity). It's not unreasonable that an old great white could learn to dump a human out of his little boat. Shark needed a toothpick, I guess.