Great White Shark Lunges at Kayaker in South Australia

[@brianafc]

Me and sharks have an agreement, I don't go in the ocean and they don't come into my bath tub

[@austinmcnamara8488]

Funniest description ever "steve its just had a go at me", "it took its mouth out" and "breached itself at me" 🤣🤣🤣

[@joblo6394]

Understandable! 😂

[@KurtGottmusic]

Better get out of the water when he takes his mouth out!😂😂😂

[@austinmcnamara8488]

🤣🤣🤣

[@joyjuly5390]

More like”it took its meowth out”

[@KurtGottmusic]

@@joyjuly5390 🤣🤣🤣

[@towlie_the_towel]

Gonna need a bigger boat mate

[@Omega-wi6fl]

Absolutely sick of reading that!!

[@towlie_the_towel]

Gonna need a bigger boat

[@Omega-wi6fl]

@@towlie_the_towel 😅

[@dabratt3635]

​@@Omega-wi6fland a bigger one 😂

[@stanleycornelius8925]

​@@Omega-wi6flJaws is iconic, love reading it everytime

[@Dallasguy1972]

Anything in South Australia is lethal AF

[@user-pu2uy4eb3u]

After it launched at him it remembered he was a Aussie😂

[@ram64man]

notice the fish finder, it sends out an electric pulse, this can attract sharks who think its the sound of a distressed fish, this is why it continually circled, if there was dead fish in the boat as well from fishing, this can drip into the sea also attracting

[@lupejauregui2]

That’s a baby one. About a year ago on my kayak in Santa Cruz 16 footer went right under my kayak.

[@shandon360]

Look how elegantly and fast that thing just curves out into the darkness. Scary bro

[@JohnnysCafe_]

I was just thinking that, the ability to swim off then suddenly appear is amazing.

[@kevondavis1966]

He should of got the hell out of the water when he spotted it don't play with ya life like this folks

[@jhhart4602]

Just a curious shark ☺️

[@assassinsgod8159]

​@@judgedrew2076that's just a gate it's water on the other side and theres probably no gate under so if he falls he might get attacked

[@rebeccayoung5563]

Paddling faster would encourage the attack, splashing mimics animal in distress

[@themindset-yj3hp]

@@jhhart4602your the same person who would say it’s just a curious tiger

[@jhhart4602]

@@themindset-yj3hp ok😊

[@jaidensummer9050]

Annnnd, THIS IS why I STAY OUT of the ocean.

[@90DeadTimer]

Should try to go to the sea in west turkey. There are so many dolphins that the sharks just disappeared, they bullied them out of there 🤣

[@jamieamodeo2622]

You should probably just lock yourself in your bedroom permanently just to be safe

[@90DeadTimer]

@@jamieamodeo2622 yeah right, not a bad idea either

[@ReivajPL1978]

Why do people go kayaking in waters where it is known there are sharks?

[@buckydog451]

I like to not risk my life for a “That girl swim”

[@wherethereidsgrow]

He should have jumped in the water and redirected the shark....i guess he didn't know!😂😂😂

[@fidelmakelly6432]

I laugh at these so called expert’s who say we’re not on the food chain for sharks… yes!! We are!!!

[@percdestroyer3071]

No we aren’t…. More ppl are killed by fridges than sharks a year, yet hundreds of thousands swim in the oceans every year. Sharks do not want us.

[@GreenLemonKidsClub]

It's a Great White. One of the most amazing creatures on this planet. You experienced something so amazing that so few will ever experience. If it wanted to eat you it would have nose bombed you 6-feet in the air and then taken a bite of you just to realise it didn't like the taste. As much as you might like the shark to play by your rules and Steve to put the shark on the naughty step for breaching and trying to bite your paddle, it's never going to happen. When you're in the ocean, consider yourself an uninvited guest.

[@tourbillon13]

Thankyou 🙏

[@hera7884]

He’s sizing you up bro, an attack is imminent if you just float there like a log

[@Bob-Maplethorpe]

Running is what triggers the predator prey response.

[@jackdempsey9644]

Actually is the opposite. Being still is best

[@hera7884]

@@jackdempsey9644 how is being still around an animal that knows you are it’s food a good idea?

[@nimmha6708]

Someone literally explained it a comment before. @@hera7884

[@narby7264]

Because panic and fast movement tells the shark you're a snack and it's time to eat before the prey escapes. Have you seen or heard of people standing their ground and screaming at a bear during bear attacks? It's the same sorta thing.. predators usually stick to what they know is easy food. Cant hunt if you're too injured :)

[@user-mh1of7mr5q]

Hd was much calmer than i would have been

[@Marley999888]

"Steve he's fcking with me"

[@kevleo723]

In a kayak, in the f’n ocean with great whites, i can say as a black man some wyt people have balls of steel!!!

[@wcolautti]

😂😂😂

[@JohnSmith-fj5ee]

He was hungry "Feed the Hungry"

[@frankdavidson7131]

He went for the paddle 😂😂

[@Levottomat01]

It didnt lunge at the kayak at all. It'll be territorial and this is telling the kayaker to get out of my area. It wasnt a sustained biting or 'attack'. It was 1 bite after an investigation, and it went away.

[@houstonmarxistleninist]

theres no evidence to suggest great whites are territorial in this way

[@nenaj1]

No it wants to eat him. Stop being delusional

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

Oh shut up. If you wanna risk your life with sharks then by my guest, normal people realise how dangerous they are. I’m seeing this BIZARRE delusional trend of people denying reality with anything atm. Just stfu

[@mateusfavarin8698]

Ok, expert

[@missnucci2696]

Ok.

[@Energyfl00d]

All a kayak is on those waters is a giant fishing lure. 😂

[@kellymckeever.6]

It's just a baby... lucky for the bloke in the silly small floating log 😂

[@oscarcat1231]

Ha ha ha

[@markrobert6014]

I'd have a hart attack or panic attack.

[@myroselle6987]

Just seeing it would have finished me off. I think they’re beautiful but I don’t want to be close to one…..live and let live…….OMG!!

[@Lizard1552]

Nothing is safe in Australia

[@ljgaming639]

I guess Australians have a very different definition of lunge than Americans.

[@tourbillon13]

And the rest of us! 😂

[@fatdaddy_27]

nah he look chill

[@olirenard]

Must be super chill when he goes back kayaking

[@thomasagee6751]

I can't imagine that I was kayak fishing caught a shark in the Gulf and I couldn't get that f***** cut off my line at all it dragged new good couple miles fast too

[@JR-hq9xx]

That is Nope on another level right there

[@chiefrocka680]

South Australia has Sharks, Brown Snakes, Red back spiders and white tip spiders, but at least we can swim in our rivers without being eaten by a crocodile.

[@JSS822]

This guy is an Australian Floridian.... just unfazed.

[@sidzeller711]

Orcas and sharks are starting to think boats contain some food source and it'll only be a matter of time when they start figuring out how to tip boats

[@ralphrex9118]

As breaches go, that was a tiddler

[@Leafy_Captain]

Massive balls for the shark to approach an Australian like that

[@Nflguy4949]

Message received God. No more kayaking in the freaking ocean.

[@SissypheanCatboy]

Lmfao, the sensationalist title and music made me think it was gonna actually lunge at the kayak, instead it just tried to take a little nibble out of one of the paddles.

[@Jfisher-bk8cm]

He is accustomed to kayakers having fish. He thought the paddle was his line.

[@keelyevans7692]

Makes me think it was really hungry

[@kazzi611]

Finding death so close must be heart pounding😮

[@bling2life703]

I would never go in the water again 😮

[@joncarlonunez3876]

First chance that paddle would’ve bing off the sharks face, best believe it ain’t coming back.

[@sittingdingo1]

Aint gonna lie, kinda rooting for the shark

[@harleycooper8595]

Not going to lie …I’d absolutely shit myself …maybe pee myself …be so fking scared that it would knock me off ….and when it went away I’d just be frozen in that spot going omfg omfg omfg shaking like a mfer 😂👍

[@dangoldstein9003]

Thats what we get for turtles with plastic cocaine straws stuck in their noses.. jump scares from sharks takin their mouths out at us 😂😂😂

[@dghhambo]

Looked like he went for the orr

[@DarthTwilight]

That's why you keep a few sticks of TNT in your kayak.

[@BaneSIlvermoon]

I'm imagining a great white cleaning it's dentures now

[@sierra8726]

He should have hit him with his paddle when he had the chance. Running away beings out the preditor.

[@tberd1649]

He’s just checking the menu.

[@gwen384]

That's right 😮

[@yrufollowingme]

Launched? Breached? It was just lookin

[@Hosea-ck4wy]

I lived in Adelaide South Australia for 3yrs..and my mom in the States would constantly say (don't get in the water) don't get in the water 💦 🦈

[@JohnnysCafe_]

Very calm matter of fact way to react 😂

[@tonyhill3786]

He took his mouth out.🤣😅🤣

[@rileysmall4317]

Should've poked it to let it know you aren't a floating piece of meat.

[@criops]

It took its mouth out at me…

[@Julia20508]

I've dreamt this exact incident in one of my nightmares. He was in a living nightmare.

[@Cold-Blooded-Jay]

The man wasn't in any real danger. The shark was trying to identify the kayak and was attracted to the electric signal it was giving off with the tech. As soon as the shark realized the kayak was not edible, it left. Unless you got dead fish dangling about your boat, the sharks will lose interest quickly.

[@superliegebeest544]

Remind again why it is a reasonable idea to go kayaking in great white territory.

[@gwen384]

I ask the same question 🙈🙈🙈🦈 & never get the right answer.what do they see in a fish that's so dangerous I will never know🦈 then when it gets ahold to u now everyBODY wants to say ohh that's F- UP NO IT'S NOT CAUSE U KNEW already it's a dangers fish.if u like it l love it.its just sad people can't stay away fr something that will kill r hurt u in a way that u can't come back fr..could be a death wish if not its close to it,I don't want NO part of it.anyway I love ur connections💯💯💯👌

[@XplorinWithPaul]

Steve??! 😂 ion what Steve can do for u there lol

[@boughtbot2639]

All that sht you got to fish😂😂😂😂go away bro, just go away😂😂😂

[@bewoproductions9097]

Yeah, that was freaky, but that was way less dramatic than you are making it.

[@Ijustwanttofindvotes]

Kayaking in the ocean? Pretty much asking for it.

[@mewho6199]

"That shark was saying hello. They're actually really loving and peaceful creatures. They're not normally aggressive, and they never go out of their way to bite humans." Lol. Just kidding! But people who say crap like that about sharks sound like dingleberries, don't they?

[@KyleMatt11]

Too bad, that would’ve been cool to see the sharks return on the side scan sonar

[@rebeccab6009]

Hit the paddle in the water next time. Sharks sometimes avoid something that startles them. Try also if you are swimming and one comes up near you. If al else fails next time stay home and out of the water.

[@morganbaldwin4828]

Creating noise is literally what attracts sharks…

[@tourbillon13]

Noooooo!!! Jeezus! Thrashing attracts them they think you are a seal or fish whatever...You "redirect" them by pushing their nose away from you! If you're panicking then thump his nose he will still go away. The paddle would have done the same job. You enter his home you know exactly what can happen make the fcuking CHOICE 😡

[@sdjslkdjlsskldjslkdjsl8262]

eff that. swimming pools and lakes for me.

[@shawdow477]

Well duh. They’re probs Australian

[@SkinwalkerStalker]

Average day in Australia

[@melissariedel2809]

And they keep going out in kayaks! Some sharks out there are bigger than these little boats. Hopefully they all use common sense- that would really ruin a good day.

[@ladybug4u165]

I follow a guy who takes groups out in Panama to catch huge fish. He calls it a sleigh ride 😅

[@manuelpagan8212]

"Places to never visit.... Australia"

[@mcpheerebecca498]

All it did was swim under him. At no time did i see it lunge at him

[@madelineanabella6400]

I thought Tiger Sharks were responsible for the most unprovoked attacks

[@tylerleebash]

Do you think the sonar from the fish finder was driving it crazy?

[@adamgascon214]

Of course it's Australia!

[@gwen384]

You better hurry, you might not make it🦈🦈🦈🙈

[@zenriderx]

Wait, there are sharks in the ocean!?! 😂🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@Psevdokranos]

post an image of the shark from the fishfinder please

[@thereptilewatcher5895]

Most normal day in Australia 🇦🇺☠️

[@jenine19851]

It looks like the shark was going for the paddle.

[@kris5042]

"lunges" 😭😭😭😭😭

[@HeathStarkey]

*CHOMP* Well, time to hit the old dusty trail. *Paddle*

[@ibelieveyou2066]

The worst thing is knowing that poor fish,would have been killed if it had actually bitten anything. Kayaker puts himself in sharks world.

[@nenaj1]

Who cares about the stupid shark

[@mclohan]

It took its mouth out

[@anthonyporter7784]

Saltwater crocs and great whites… but you keep rocking that kayak, I’m sure your wife has life insurance on ya.

[@mrs.dinahsaur7195]

Scary and wonderful at the same time 😂🎉😅😮😢❤

[@mammascorner7890]

Surprised? Well what did you think was going to go down out there in the water while you were floating in a plastic boat⁉️🤔🙄

[@greenbongos]

He is fine, i just wanted to say high. Sharks aren’t that dangerous.

[@CoasterLoverJackie]

Well when you enter the water you are entering THEIR HOME, what do you expect to happen? Same thing that happens when someone enters your home uninvited 🤷‍♀️ It is provoked every time you step foot into the sea or ocean. I’m not understanding why this is so hard for people to understand!!!🤦‍♀️🙄

[@Its_Shaun_the_Sheep]

It’s no wonder as these piers have schools of big fish around. Breeding grounds for the Great White pussy cat…Bull Sharks are the pinnacle of aggressive man eaters imo.

[@VeNoMgIrL23]

The only way they can see what you are is bite also anything that’s in the water is fair game to then they will taste everything 😂

[@Gastao1986]

If he had it him in the beginning it would have left. Stood there like bait 😅

[@Hartleymolly]

“sharks don’t eat people” 🙄

[@sallyperrie3007]

Where are those orcas when you need thdm

[@Insorius]

He just want to play

[@mistyhadley]

🛶+🧔🏻+🌊+🦈= ⚰️ Hell to da damn naw!

[@trxq7173]

Imagine the whole fish finder went red with marks

[@dianehollister9410]

Why go that far out in a baby boat? Crazy people

[@johncheatham6616]

One tail slap its over

[@Rose12842]

He smelt the dogs

[@chip5976]

Sharks are not aggressive and do not have any interest in eating humans, we taste like crap to them. He was probably curious or as another person mentioned could have been drawn to the boat by him fishing and the equipment he was using. Deaths caused by sharks are almost always caused by the shark mistaking the human for a seal, biting, and swimming away once they get a taste, leaving the human to bleed out. Many species including the great white are also at risk of going extinct due to the disgusting shark-fin soup trade, the continued fear-mongering causing people to kill them for no reason out of fear, and trophy fishers who think killing an innocent creature makes them a badass.