Heart-stopping moment shark rears up to take a chunk out of kayak

‘You’re gonna need a bigger boat’! Heart-stopping moment shark rears up to take a chunk out of kayak before fisherman KICKS it away and carries on fishing and describes attack as a ‘whooshing sound like a boat without a motor’

• Fisherman Scott Haraguchi had close escape from Tiger Shark off Hawaii coast 

This is the heart-stopping moment a shark launched itself from the sea and tried to take a chunk out of a fisherman’s kayak. 

Footage shows fisherman Scott Haraguchi sailing off the coast of Hawaiian island O’ahu when the large tiger shark came crashing into his kayak.

The shark, rearing its sharp teeth, launched itself at the kayak with such speed that Haraguchi described the sound as like a ‘boat heading towards me without a motor’.

Astonishingly, Haraguchi managed to kick the shark away from him following the lightening-speed attack.

In the footage, Haraguchi, who was wearing a GoPro camera, can be heard screaming and shouting ‘Tiger shark rammed me’.

Footage shows fisherman Scott Haraguchi sailing off the coast of Hawaiian island O’ahu when the large tiger shark came crashing into his kayak

Astonishingly, Haraguchi managed to kick the shark away (pictured) from him following the lightening-speed attack

The fisherman told ABC-affiliate KITV 4: ‘I heard a whooshing that sounded like a boat heading towards me without the motor and I looked up and I saw this big brown thing.

‘My brain thought it was a turtle but then I got slammed by it and realized that it was a tiger shark.’

Haraguchi said he managed to carry on fishing after the terrifying attack. 

The fisherman said he believed the shark mistook his kayak for a seal as minutes after the attack, Haraguchi saw a wounded seal. 

‘I realize that life is short, time is short on Earth, so make the most of it,’ Haraguchi said.

Tiger sharks have a reputation for being man-eaters and are the second-most deadly predators after great white sharks.

In December last year, a Hawaiian man managed to fend of a tiger shark using a diving knife after it bit him on the backside and ripped off a ‘good chunk’.

The unidentified man, 68, of Waikoloa, was bitten by a 12-foot tiger shark while swimming off the coast of Anaehoomalu Bay in December.

Witnesses said the man, who swam daily at the beach, was around 400 yards out when the shark attacked him. 

He was able to fend off the animal using a diving knife before an unidentified woman and a man named Kai jumped on paddleboards and helped pull him out of the water and onto the shore before he was rushed to hospital. 

Tiger sharks (file image) have a reputation for being man-eaters and are the second-most deadly predators after great white sharks

The majority of unprovoked shark attacks were recorded in the USA and Australia last year, however single bites also occurred in New Zealand, Thailand and Brazil

In another close escape, diving expert Ocean Ramsey narrowly avoided being chomped by a tiger shark just as she was preparing to enter the ocean off the coast of Haleiwa, Hawaii in October last year. 

The majority of unprovoked shark attacks were recorded in the USA and Australia last year, data revealed in February. 

The shark bite capital of the world is Florida, the research showed, after 16 unprovoked attacks were reported there last year.

There were 57 unprovoked bites in the world in 2022 – with only five of them fatal – while there were 73 in 2021, with nine deaths. 

Last August, the Florida Museum produced an interactive map that lets you explore the number of unprovoked shark attacks around the world.  

It revealed that the USA is the shark attack hotspot of the world, with 1,563 unprovoked attacks since 1580, followed by Australia (682 attacks), Republic of South Africa (258 attacks) and Brazil (110 attacks).

The vast majority were in Florida and, although none of them were fatal in the state, two of them did result in amputations.

These are thought to have been the result of bites from bull sharks.

A woman in the Dry Tortugas National Park in the state was attacked by a six-foot lemon shark, prompting her to punch it repeatedly in the face.

While snorkelling, Heather West, 42, approached a patch of sea grass which seemed to be floating in a strange manner.

She turned on her front and looked behind her to see a shark with its jaws clamped round her foot, which was completely mangled.

This was only the eleventh known unprovoked attack from a lemon shark. 

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