Too Close for Comfort - Great White Shark encounter

@victorsvarden3393 4 years ago

Still the best white shark video on youtube 5 years later . Can't imagine how cool it must have been to experience live :)

@1492tomato 3 years ago

I so hated to see her trailing that damn line. Hooks, lines, and pieces of netting are far too familiar in videos of these magnificent animals. What a GREAT video! I've long since retired from diving but would have given much for an experience like that - if my pulse rate could bear it:)

@Metal-Mayhem-Ministry 3 years ago

That's beautiful and terrifying at the same time.

@Eben68 9 years ago

It's saddening how one of the most amazing great white encounters has so little views compared to all of these BS same shark attacking kite surfer and guy jumping off a cliff videos all over YouTube. As I watched this video in bed the night before I commence with my open water licence I can't help but think..... No no no not in such murky water. Kudos for keeping calm and uploading a great video, you guys are an inspiration to me.

@mustangsandwich 5 years ago

Yeah, there are some mighty big sharks out at Catalina! I saw one years ago from a friend's sailboat. Dorsal fin appeared to be at least a couple feet tall. I'm not big on swimming out there anymore...

@francishughes9208 3 years ago

the longest decompression stop ever!

@leroyreynolds7366 3 years ago

Music not required, it overwhelms. I would rather hear the regulator and bubbles and your reaction by hmm and humming. Beautiful healthy shark.

@silenthunterpty 9 years ago

Very awesome.. So happy you got the opportunity to see and respect this fabulous predator..That was a gift to be able to experience this

@jammaquino 3 years ago

Amazing encounter of a beautiful shark! Perhaps the rope everyone is mentioning actually might be pinniped intestine? In a couple of frames, it looked to be coming out one of her RHS gill slits. In any case, if this was intestine, it definitely explains her girth and the indication that she may have recently fed.

@bobcombe3430 5 years ago

Thank you for delivering. Amazing video where most would be a teaser thumbnail without an encounter anywhere as remarkable as that.

@WR505_Spearo 3 years ago

So cool! Chilling on a deco stop with that big girl must have felt like an eternity and equally as exciting as anxious

@Rottsy1 9 years ago

I think she might have been trying to ask for some assistance removing the line that seems to be coming from her mouth, or possibly gills! I believe I have seen that shark somewhere (not in person, but on one of the shark shows) I remember the shredded dorsal. Amazing footage! An experience of a lifetime! Thank you for sharing!

@ashleysmith2509 4 years ago

The ascent must have been insane.

@catsooey 11 months ago

This is incredible! I can’t imagine what that must have been like. Such a privilege to share the water with this buddy. 🦈I’m from Western Mass, although I used to live in SoCal, and out here we’re becoming known for our White shark conservation. They have always been part of the ecosystem here,, but it’s only after their long-overdue protected status in the 1990’s that they’ve finally begun to reclaim their rightful place in our waters.

@themrmaiorca 9 months ago

That is an awesome video! I'm a freediver/spearfisherman from Sardegna/Italy, I once removed a line with a hook from a very small blue shark and then threw a mullet that i shot earlier at him that he thankfully accepted. But this situation is a whole new ballgame. Btw. This should be one of the top gw encounter videos.