I’ve always heard that “they’re always there” and “they see you before you see them” and “you’d be surprised how close one has been to you,” but it’s still crazy to see this kind of footage proving exactly what I’ve heard all along.
I still dont understand why people would dip themselves in water that is occupied by so many thing that can eat you! like humans you only need a bad psycho one! Fortunatley it seems they arent as psycho and cruel as a lot of human are.
@@eveningstar777 You make a great point at the end of your comment -- one that highlights just why swimmers and surfers like myself almost never feel threatened in the ocean. You have a much better chance of being attacked by a fellow human being while walking down a city street than you do by a sea creature -- including white sharks -- while in the ocean.
This guy needs an award.. not only is he capturing wildlife footage on a par with almost nothing we've ever seen, he's documenting some damn near unprecedented behaviour and encounters Nearly 2 decades in to the platform and the ubiquity of drone technology and this guy _still_ created a unique, engaging and educational channel with what he had - endless kudos
"he's documenting some damn near unprecedented behaviour and encounters " The footage is definitely amazing but what do you mean unprecedented behavior? This is normal behavior of sharks. It is well known that sharks are not dangerous to humans and I bet the surfers are indeed aware the shark is there and don't care b/c they're used to it. Anyone who spends a lot of time in the ocean learns that sharks aren't actually scary.
@@heysatan8 Saying sharks are "not dangerous to humans" is overkill. I love sharks, but ALL wild animals are dangerous to humans. The ocean itself is "dangerous to humans." It's more about understanding them to keep yourself & the animals safe than anything else. They certainly shouldn't be demonized, but let's not tell people they shouldn't be wary of them, either.
I disagree that most of these surfers know they are there. Ive been surfing for 15 years in Socal and have never seen a shark, but I think thats due to how murky the water is 90% of the time, and that most white sharks don't show their dorsal fin. Plus, your not looking for them, your keeping your eyes on the top of the water looking for waves. At first becoming aware that sharks encounter humans all the time is a little scary, however if you think about it, you understand that just means if you Do encounter a shark theres almost nothing to be worried about. These are all white sharks though, im curious about other sharks like tiger sharks and bull sharks. * Also to note, socal seems to have a very low number of attacks considering the amount of people that live here, compared to places like western aus and reunion island that have a high amount of attacks with less population. Supposedly juveniles are responsible for most attacks, and Socal is known for having lots of Juveniles(Bigger sharks are known to go North), yet attacks are rare here.
@@tychase2432 most rtardd answer so far, we are indegenous life of this planet too, I swear people come to this cozzy missinformative videos and pretend they are gods jaja
@@LuxCirilo Yeah not to mention we fucking own this planet, every living creature was int he evolutionary race and we won, we deserve some perks with that and those perks include not being eaten! Sharks need to learn to stay out of our way and end up in a tuna can.
shark week is not "pro" sharks, it's pro profits made with the usual old dramatized music,editing and commentary. Besides he's the definition of "DAH" every time he says something,with that obnoxious tone and never ending commentary.
Sharks swim in the surf as a way to conserve energy or “take a break” from always being on the move in order to breathe. The ocean swells about to break bring frothy oxygen rich water close to shore, the sharks use the the swells to get oxygen from the waves, having to use less energy to breathe as the oxygen comes to them as opposed to them going to the oxygen, so to speak
Humm, I'd like to see a scientific reference supporting this hypothesis. The surfer probably didn't see this shark because he was just about to "catch a wave" and was several feet over the shark when he passed over its body. He was focused on surfing, not staring down into the water.
Runs of Fish are chased. I've seen it with bluefish ( more dangerous than sharks imo) often they're basking sharks though that scare us Martha's Vineyard Jaws territory
I've surfed my whole life and have always wondered if I had been near a great white shark. This video proves that it's probably happened multiple times. The fact that guy saw nothing paddling right over the shark was eye-opening. Stunning.
I grew up in Southern California decades ago and spent a lot of time in the water. Surfer friends all had stories about being out beyond the breakers and seeing, even touching, sharks. They've always been there and thank you for telling the story in your calm, non-sensational way
I see sharks while surfing all the time. The best are the lemon sharks. They seem to be territorial. If there is current and you drift near them, they come to the surface and make a display. Paddle over a bit and keep surfing...😂
My uncle is 75, born and raised in SD and did scuba until recently. Told me I wouldn't surf if I saw what was under the water down here. I have never been scared to surf in SoCal. BUT I learned to surf up in Humboldt County. THAT place is sharky AF and not with these juveniles. Lotsa salmon and seals up there. In 14 years of living up there I personally knew 3 people who were bit or had their boards bit.
Love this channel! I could watch sharks swim all day. Lived in San Clemente for 10 years, surfers always saw sharks but I never knew anyone who got bit. Did witness a large shark doing some splashing about one morning. Thought it was a baby whale Beaching itself at first. Then realized it was a great white. Had to look on the shark spotting website to see if anyone else saw it. Sure enough 18 foot female was hanging out around SC that day. 😳
As a surfer in Aus, I know they are there. These videos go a long way to help many of us understand their true behaviour when out past the breakers. Protect and conserve.
Yes but as an Australian too, we need to do more to get Shark nets removed from our beaches. It kills all marine life and in an awful agonizing death. They are unnecessary but as usual we aussies just sit on our asp and allow government to dictate to us.
@Gort Newton ummmmm. 50yrs of living around the oceans. Go out with them when they do a net check next time and come back and tell me its rubbish or garbage as you like to call it. Get out of their home if its so dangerous. You really think the councils are going to show the true extent of the carnage that "protects" us although it doesn't stop some sharks. They bait the nets too just to make it all that more safer for us. Try co existing people before our planet can no longer sustain the destruction.
It’s like we were intentionally indoctrinated to be afraid of sharks. I was traumatized when I watched JAWS in 3D when I was 7. This channel has helped me tremendously understand the true nature of such magnificent creatures. Along with orcas.
How I love the cool, calm, non-sensational narration on your videos, really nice contrast to stuff like Shark week and similar. Had this been on Shark week all of those surfers had been inches away from certain death. ;) The footage you capture is really amazing!
Incredible footage. As a surfer, I am not sure if watching these is good or not. Your mind does crazy things when you are sitting out on a surfboard, and you know they are out there. I am comforted in seeing that they are always around, with so few attacks. I did see at least an 8-10 foot GWS at Sunset beach, north OC 3 years ago, right in the surf line. I freaked out, paddled out as quickly as I could, pulling muscles as i did so. Scared me half to death seeing that Giant Triangle front dorsal fin, and a long notched at the top tail fin, and it looked like those fins were at least 8 feet apart. The shark just headed out to the ocean between over 100 surfers, with no incident. Still was super scary, and to this day that image is burned into my brain. Thanks for sharing these awesome videos. Do you see many between Huntington Beach and Seal Beach?
That would be terrifying. I’m still trying to decide if I’ll surf the east coast since it has more shark attacks per capita and the water is murkier than SoCal.
Lol I’ve had a great white encounter exactly on this beach too near Anderson St. This area is stingray capital of the world cause of the warmed waters from the power plant in seal beach. So it attracts a lot of sharks.
We don’t have whites in FL but when I was like 11yo I saw a monster hammerhead checking me out and I paddled in frantically then started playing baseball, never surfed again. Lol.
I spent a lot of time in the water surfing SoCal, Baja, etc. I always suspected they were there more than we knew. I know I've been eye-balled and I felt it. If they really wanted us, there'd be dozens of attacks every week. Your videos are really important, thank you.
The main reason there aren’t more is because they don’t recognize us as prey generally. It’s not that they don’t like our meat it’s usually that they don’t realize we are made out of it. Until one does... once they realize what we are made of, they occasionally act on it. Beautiful, to be respected and feared like any other apex predator. They don’t do things for human or even mammalian reasons. They have no concept of play or beauty or virtue. They use their mouths like we use our hands, to test things out, to see if it’s edible. Most attacks occur from young sharks doing just that, testing us...tasting us. And sometimes they like the taste and come back for more. We are lucky they don’t have very big brains. Can we please stop trying to humanize apex predators that’s main drive is predation.
I would love to see a part of the video where you get to talk to the surfers and show them the clips, capture their reactions, and tell them more about your amazing findings!!
I've always been cautious in even a few feet of surf, especially with low visibility, because I KNOW that this is the reality. Still, it's nice to know that with this much of a presence, they almost never interact with us by choice. It's astonishing, beautiful, and entirely captivating. Thanks so much for educating and discussing the reality of shark-human interaction, and life near and in the water. This work is invaluable, and its impact will be felt.
Shark just chilling, catching the waves and was rudely slapped, then moved away. 🥺 Thank you for these beautiful, well documented videos. Your voice is so calming. I just found your channel and binged most of the videos. 🙂
It is actually very understandable and explainable as to why in waters so clear a surfer can still miss a shark. They're right on top of the water surface, they don't have up-high vision looking straight down, where light can reflect directly back up to your sight (as in the case of the drone). Instead, whatever they may see is highly distorted due to light refraction off the surface of the water, particularly in this scenario captured where the surfer was just beginning to catch the wave swell as he swept past the shark swimming below him. Still, a very very close shave there. Imagine that we can see all this now because of drone tech, how much more common such close proximity encounters were in the past and nobody would have been the wiser?
At high angles the water is transparent but at low angles there's a lot of glare and reflection of the sky. Surfers should probably wear polarized sunglasses to see into the water. Fun video!
The sun is 94.789 million miles away. The drone is maybe 300 feet up. I don't really know why you see through water better with some elevation but closer to the sun isn't it.
@@GrowBetterOnYoucrap Its down to something called the Fresnel effect (or Fresnel coefficients), reflections at shallow angles are more prominent than steep angles, the surfers are viewing the water surface at sea level so the reflection of the sky on the surface is occluding the view through the water, as stated above polarized lenses would mitigate this
I am pretty sure the sharks are well aware surfers can't see them. They know exactly how close they can get and still hide. On my surfski, I see dolphin and seals all the time. Sometimes they follow you at an angle you can't see them. One seal swam towards me and disappeared. Latter found out he was directly under me at the sea bottom. He saw I saw him, and swam away. Another time I knew he was under there somewhere. I paddled in a circle just to play a trick on the seal. They likes little games like that sometimes. He finally popped his head out to stare at me to see if I had gone mad. hahaha Never have I seen a shark though. I imagine they are very intelligent and knows exactly what they are doing, so you won't catch them. Imagine they are not playful like seals either. Don't expect them to pop their head out to stare at you . hahaha
Nice comment, but the phrasing makes it sound like you aren’t one of the human beings you’re talking about. XD Not trying to call it a bad comment. I still get what you’re saying, and I agree. Just thought it was funny how you talked about “the human beings” as if you weren’t one of them.
This video is so amazing! I can’t believe that you can miss a great white shark that close to you!👍🏼 100k is coming within 1 month I hope! You definitely deserve it!❤️❤️
Your Videos have become unmissable for me. Not only are they beautifully made, but they are profoundly thought provoking. The more people who get to see these films, the better off sharks, people and the environment in general will be. Please keep up the great work.
I am so proud of you for your informative narration of your drone footage!!! You have continued to learn while filming these misunderstood creatures. Thank you for sharing the beauty most of us cant witness ourselves.
Mate thankyou for your content I live in Australia WA and your footage and narration is helping the world better understand these remarkable and fascinating creatures and may your hard work give you forfullment and wisdom that you desire 🙏✌
When I was at Slough Grammar School ( near Windsor - England, that is - not Ontario!), back in the days of the Lower Cretaceous period, our Geography master was known as 'Shirley' Portus for exactly the reason you have given!
@@TheMalibuArtist please let me know. I have asked this question on several other videos and have yet to receive an answer. : if you had to estimate, what would you say is that percentage of time you film there is a shark visible in the water?
Its pretty clear water but he has aerial visual. if your on the surface of the water with the sun beaming down and it reflecting off the water you can probably maybe see a little down but not enough unless the water is really clear.
@@petbull7038 When you think about it the G.W.S's colouration - black on the upper surface; white on the belly - is camouflage which has been perfected by nature over tens of millions of years. Looking down at it from above, the animal blends perfectly into the darkness of the deep; seen from below, it is invisible against the light of the sky. If the shark's camouflage has been developed to conceal it from its prey - seals - it will be similarly invisible to humans looking into the depths from - say - a surfboard. I'd like to hope that this information has 'set your mind at rest', But somehow I doubt it!
I found your channel by coincidence last night, and I gotta say I love it! I instantly subscribed, your content is unique and amazing. I've always liked marine life and mostly sharks, I love the fact that you're studying them on their natural habitat and informing people about them, mostly that they're not the monsters everybody makes them look like. Please, keep up the content because it's truly amazing! Hopefully someday I'll be able to do something similar to what you're doing, peace bro! ♡ :)
I'm just wondering.. do you wait for the surfers to come out of the water to show them the footage of their close encounters? Since I'm a surfer myself, it would really be an eye-opener and it would give me a much more comfortable feeling to see that sharks are so close nearby without any interest in me instead of the (false) feeling of the risk I'm taking by going into the ocean with sharks around.
As I watch these videos you are creating and sharing, I say to myself, this man is changing perception of sharks by showing the real behavior and movements of these magnificent creatures. You show the need for caution, the strength in surfer numbers, the juvenile and older shark behavior and the truth that they are Not the aggressive predators Hollywood would have us believe. This is historic. I love your observations. Thank you for your work and compassion.
You have THE best GWS channel. Your speaking style is calming, as well which ads comfort and assuredness to feeling "safe" with sharks. That being said, I'm still a kid of the 70's ....
This is both serenely beautiful and bone-chilling all at once. An ode to nature itself in a way. It seems impossible from that view that they cannot see the apex predator cruising around them, but it must be the case. Stay safe out there and stay smart. For the surfers and the sharks sake.
You're doing great work with your footage. I sincerely hope this is the kind of content that replaces the typical shark week kind of stuff in the near future. I love how relaxing your narration is, too.
Wow, SHARK ALERT!! How unbelievable was your video. My bloody toes were curling, I can tell you. Fantastic footage, super resolution, scary as feck, while your incredibly calming voice over is truly enjoyable. Love to hate them, but can’t wait for the next. Huge respect from the UK 🇬🇧
You know how you have awards for films. Do they have one for amazing RUclips videos/ documentaries? Man you would be at the top of the list sir!!! Your video presentation, narration and subjects (sharks and coastline) are superb and second to no one. Man if I were National Geographic or Nature I would be scooping you up and have you make some amazing shows/episodes/documentaries!!!!
..."the humans these sharks share their home with".... Thank you for that statement, and for this beautiful video. I get so frustrated when people blame attacks on the shark...hey, it's in their living room, not ours!
I remember when the movie Jaws came out and everybody was scared to go into the ocean because of sharks. They were hunted just for the kill. Total insanity. These videos show just how these magnificent creatures do react to humans. Awesome work!
Thank you for making these videos. I became interested in shark when I was a junior in high school. I even did my senior research paper on it. These are not the monsters society likes to make them out to be. I think why they frighten people, is because of how powerful an animal this is. But they are not mindless and we still have so much to learn about them. Your content is something that should shown during shark week and not what they show which panders towards the “danger” hype.
Thanks for your amazing videos! Even in clear water when I surf you can't really see what's beneath you due to the glare, stirred up water from waves, you're attention straight out looking for waves, and the water is not nearly as clear as it's shown from above. Your drone shows the ocean in ways a surfer could never tell and I surf in south Orange and San Diego counties which has pretty clear water. A year ago I started stand up paddle surfing too and I've seen much more marine life including 2 whites, some leopard sharks, turtles, and plenty of fish. You can see many more things paddling than surfing but still nothing compared to the incredible drone filming you're doing. Thanks again!
I read a yahoo article that mentioned your channel. I am so happy to have found you! This is wonderful footage and your message is great! Great whites get a bad rap. Thank you for this!
I've always wondered how often big sharks pass right by surfers and swimmers without being seen. Seems like it probably happens all the time. Kind of disconcerting on the one hand but on the other it's comforting that a lot of these sharks clearly have no real desire to harm us most of the time.
I just recently (as in like 3 days ago) started watching your videos. I am addicted. I am an avid shark lover. I live in Florida less than a mile from the Gulf of Mexico. I've only seen a few sharks in the 7 years I've lived here. And I go to the beach at least every other day. Your videos have inspired me to want to learn how to fly a drone. We have a few piers over the span of a few towns but obviously they dont have the mobility of a drone. I've only ever seen one shark from any of the piers. Thank you so much for sharing your videos. They are incredibly eye opening and just downright amazing! Please keep sharing!
The first and only time I saw a Great White in the water was a day I will never forget. A friend and I paddled out at a pretty crowded break called El Porto but went a little further down to get away from everybody. It was about an hour before sunset and the light was distorted because of the clouds so it was hard to see at times. At one point I got separated from my buddy and was sitting at a peak waiting on a wave. I figured he had caught a wave. I began to paddle and looked out and saw a huge fin. My heart stopped. I hadn't felt a fear like that before. I couldn't move my arms and it felt like a dream where the monster is chasing you and you can't run. I turned away trying to convince myself that it was just my imagination. I turned a second time and saw the same fin, still swimming perpendicular to me, probably 50 yards away. I can only guesstimate to how big the fin was and fear definitely played a factor but I have spent thousands of hours in the water, seen countless dolphins, had a whale breach 20 feet in front of me, and I would guess this shark was 14 feet plus. My heart rate was still abnormally fast but the fear paralysis was starting to wane as my flight sensor started to kick in. I looked out one more time and saw the same fin. I don't know why I kept looking out as to confirm my eyes weren't playing tricks on me, but after that third time I started to swim in and yell for my friend. I paddled for a couple more minutes screaming his name thinking the worst had happened and then finally I found him smiling after catching a wave. I was ecstatic just to see him. I told him what I had just seen and he gave a quick laugh and said 'It was probably just a dolphin'. I know what I had seen and the difference between the fin I saw and a dolphin. But somehow, this was comforting to me. We ended up staying in the water for another 45 minutes trading waves. My fear had completely subsided. I can't say it was a wise decision but there was no harm or foul, and after all, the shark wasn't swimming after us. It was swimming perpendicular to the beach, probably just out on a daily cruise. That day taught me a lot about fear, and sharks for that matter. Thanks for reading.
ok I don't think you realize why we need sharks they are vital to the ecosystem without them humanity wouldn't survive bc they are top predator of the ocean food chain and without them the ocean would die no ocean no humans
Love your channel, ...great work. Look forward to every new video. I grew up in Newport Beach, our life was spent on the beach and in the ocean , and still is today. Nothing more beautiful, peaceful and full of wonder. My safe place, my serenity. Thankyou for sharing your gift with all of us .
Amazing video - I wish every single human could see this. They are absolutely always out there - I find that most surfers have a profound respect for the ocean like myself and I like to think our buddies below have a tentative agreement with us. Being responsible is a huge way to stay safe - it's their ocean, we are just the visitors during every paddle out. I think sharks are beautiful, and so is this footage. Great work!
Thank you so much for your videos but also thank you even more for making me appreciate even more how gorgeous our waters are off the coast of Southern California!
Most of the time a bite occurs, we are tasted and spat out. Can you imagine all the chemicals you would taste if you bit through a wetsuit, a bathing suit, soap, shampoo, conditioner, shaving cream, moisturizer, sunscreen, HARMaceuticals in the system, GMO food, etc... YUCK!!
Geez, Carlos, what an excellent new video! Thanks for the wonderful job you are doing educating the public on the reality of what white sharks are all about. In terms of safety of in the water contacts, you have stressed the importance of keeping eye contact and facing them, whether swimming or on a board. After many years of body surfing in the Gulf of Mexico, I think I would rather be in the water with juvenile white sharks than adult bull sharks. Do you get much drone footage of other varieties of sharks and does their behavior differ much?
a billionaire was having a party at his beach resort and in his beach resort he had a huge aquarium with great white sharks in it. he announced to everyone at the party that whoever could swim across the big aquarium without getting attacked could either have all his money, his wife, or his house. so when everyone got back to talking all of a sudden a guy is in the aquarium swimming as fast as he can and when he gets to the other side and jumps out. the billionaire goes.. "Holy shit, I didn’t think anyone was going to do it, but anyway, you want the money right?" and the guy says "no", so the billionaire says, "oh, you want my house?" and the guys says "no" and so the billionaire says," what, you want my wife, then?" but the guys says "hell no" so the billionaire says "well what the heck do you want?" the guys still trying to catch his breath says, " I want the bastard who pushed me in the aquarium”
I know they aren’t man eaters and we aren’t on their menu but I’m sorry they are the most terrifying things on planet earth. What’s crazy is if they just do a curious bite that can kill us. However I might think they are the most terrifying things but they are also extremely fascinating.
@@mister_ray they aren’t scary and I can’t watch that. I’d much rather encounter one of those over a great white shark any day of the week. What that dragon is doing to that deer isn’t scary it’s nature and it’s the rawest form of nature.
@@BrooklynVega1 I see your point but let’s be honest here if you were surfing and another surfer paddled next to you I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t be terrified. However if you were surfing and a great white shark came up right next to you I’m pretty sure that would be much more terrifying. Do you see my point? Not all humans destroy things. The animal kingdom is extremely ruthless too but in a different way.
I think the work you're doing to showcase natural shark behaviour as non-aggressive and non-threatening toward humans is going to go a long way to changing people's perceptions of them. This will hopefully help secure protected status for many shark species that need its well as fixing the broken rhetoric that sharks are mindless killing machines. Thanks so much and please keep the videos coming!
You are completely misinterpreting the behavior because you’re attributing human concepts to sharks. They aren’t like us, they don’t have our motivations. They are highly beautiful, highly dangerous apex predators that should be respected and feared. Fallaciously attributing human characteristics to the, is often how accidents happen.
AMAZING footage. When I was in high school surfing new Smyrna inlet in Florida, I’ll never forget the overcast sky, dark water, and the dorsal fin coming right at me and swimming by me, and all I could see was the fin, couldn’t see anything but the fin and it was right next to me. I’m 52 now and the thought of that memory still blows my mind. The shark that swam right by me was definitely investigating me that day, I always thank God that it never bit me. I can still hear the water treading on each side of the dorsal fin as it approached me, crazy.
Missed the premiere, but I still love the content! This one was really scary and awesome to watch. Thank you, for giving us a safe outlet to explore these beautiful predators.
Your videos are amazing!! Thank you for sharing! One year ago I was maybe five feet from what looked like a juvenile white shark up in norther California, at Bolinas beach. I was body surfing next to a surfer who saw it with me. We were stunned and discussed wether or not it was really a white shark. It didn't seem to show much, if any interest in either of us, or the near 30 other people in the water. These videos show that it was very possibly a white shark and we were not what it was looking for.
I planned to do it in Cape Code this summer. I even reached out to Atlantic White Shark Conservancy that's based there. They didn't want to help me with much of the planning of filming sharks there. I wanted local knowledge in exchange for drone footage. I didn't even ask or want free boat tours or whatever (I don't need that for what I'm doing). But they weren't' interested unfortunately.
Oh wow. .that sucks. Beaches are free. Just head on over lol. They may be worried about bad publicity after someone was killed a couple years ago. Like someone else said...their loss
@@TheMalibuArtist probably because of the impact they fear it may have to tourism or the offering is not offering what they need? Worth finding what that is? Perhaps a strategy with a monetary incentive or charitable cause they may help you. Otherwise contacting local surfers or people with boats
@Omertà Don83 Oceanic White Tips are very opportunist and the navy personnel were in the water for days.. word gets round in the ocean when an unexpected feed is around in the middle of what is a very wet desert. Also its disputed how many were taken by sharks amongst those lost. Also we all know that all shark attacks are staged by Orcas because they are evil. ;)
@Omertà Don83 as I’m sure you’ve found out by researching, oceanic white tips are nasty buggers. Says something when it shares the top four deadliest spots with bulls, tigers and great whites.
@@surkularsinisism1989 I remember reading Men and Sharks by Hans Hass - a 1950 / 60s - era marine biologist who was an early pioneer of scuba diving and making TV documentaries. One chapter in his book included an encounter between him and one of his team and an Oceanic White Tip. Hass's account of the way the animal exhibited a very unhealthy and aggressive interest in them, which prompted them to beat a hasty retreat to the safety of the dive boat, led him to opine that this species posed a real danger to people adrift in the open sea.
Our family stayed in San Diego in May this year. On our visit to La Jolla, the beach behind the seawall was closed due to seal pupping. In all, there were around 35 - 40 adult seals and pups lying on the beach, or playing in the surf. A couple of the larger seals had some scary slash marks on their back and sides, suggestive of shark attacks. Have you ever taken the drones down the harbour at La Jolla to see what's lurking off-shore...?
I wonder if attacks occur only when the GWS prey is present and the GWS was already in hunt mode. A case of the surfer being “in the wrong place @ the right time “. Perfect storm.
I saw a video where diver was diving where GWSs were feeding on seals - it was murky sea full of that big sea grass - can't remember the name. He did to prove that they are really not man eaters even when in hunt mode.
The shark just tryna hang out with the surfers like, "Whassup guys, beautiful day innit?!" Swimming away all happy and shit like, "I got a high five from one of the guys!! Hope they ask me to sit at their lunch table tomorrow."
Having personally surfed off the coasts of San Diego, Orange, and L.A. Counties, this is actually scarier than any horror movie I've seen. Lol. Although their behaviour here it indicates it shouldn't be.
That was such a beautiful video to watch, thank you for sharing it with us. I have been fascinated by sharks ever since my close encounter when I was around 12 years old. I wasn't bitten but I could have been if their hadn't been dolphins that helped me get back to shore.
It's always funny how they say the attacks were a case of a misidentification, like they were able to interview the shark later. Shark: "Yeah. Yeah. I totally thought that skinny little dude was a seal. I mean I totally would not have bitten him otherwise. Those movies about me are sooooo wrong."
On ALL levels not just about fear of being killed .which would not have actually been that much of a hazard unless an individual became separated from the group.
Hi @TheMalibuArtist ! Thank you for your incredible RUclips Channel. I enjoy every second of your aerial shots... Being stuck in quarantine has been hard for me, so having your videos available make it easier. Keep up the great job. Happy New Year!
I’ve always heard that “they’re always there” and “they see you before you see them” and “you’d be surprised how close one has been to you,” but it’s still crazy to see this kind of footage proving exactly what I’ve heard all along.
NOT exactly.... Many of these surfers see the shark, but cant feel the danger
What if you're just wading very close to the shoreline.... in New Jersey... I don't want to be that near sharks! They are beautiful though.
Yes....what I've known since infancy.
I still dont understand why people would dip themselves in water that is occupied by so many thing that can eat you! like humans you only need a bad psycho one! Fortunatley it seems they arent as psycho and cruel as a lot of human are.
@@eveningstar777 You make a great point at the end of your comment -- one that highlights just why swimmers and surfers like myself almost never feel threatened in the ocean. You have a much better chance of being attacked by a fellow human being while walking down a city street than you do by a sea creature -- including white sharks -- while in the ocean.
This guy needs an award.. not only is he capturing wildlife footage on a par with almost nothing we've ever seen, he's documenting some damn near unprecedented behaviour and encounters
Nearly 2 decades in to the platform and the ubiquity of drone technology and this guy _still_ created a unique, engaging and educational channel with what he had - endless kudos
"he's documenting some damn near unprecedented behaviour and encounters " The footage is definitely amazing but what do you mean unprecedented behavior? This is normal behavior of sharks. It is well known that sharks are not dangerous to humans and I bet the surfers are indeed aware the shark is there and don't care b/c they're used to it. Anyone who spends a lot of time in the ocean learns that sharks aren't actually scary.
@@heysatan8 Saying sharks are "not dangerous to humans" is overkill. I love sharks, but ALL wild animals are dangerous to humans. The ocean itself is "dangerous to humans." It's more about understanding them to keep yourself & the animals safe than anything else. They certainly shouldn't be demonized, but let's not tell people they shouldn't be wary of them, either.
I disagree that most of these surfers know they are there. Ive been surfing for 15 years in Socal and have never seen a shark, but I think thats due to how murky the water is 90% of the time, and that most white sharks don't show their dorsal fin. Plus, your not looking for them, your keeping your eyes on the top of the water looking for waves. At first becoming aware that sharks encounter humans all the time is a little scary, however if you think about it, you understand that just means if you Do encounter a shark theres almost nothing to be worried about. These are all white sharks though, im curious about other sharks like tiger sharks and bull sharks. * Also to note, socal seems to have a very low number of attacks considering the amount of people that live here, compared to places like western aus and reunion island that have a high amount of attacks with less population. Supposedly juveniles are responsible for most attacks, and Socal is known for having lots of Juveniles(Bigger sharks are known to go North), yet attacks are rare here.
@@travistarp7466 👌
@@chelseawilson7723 also 👌
I really loved how you said “sharks aren’t the only ones that like to surf” instead of saying it the other way around. We gotta respect their home
Oh yeah I forgot when sharks invented surfing, unfortunately humans stole the idea of the surfing table first.. snap
@@LuxCirilo it’s still their world not ours in the ocean
@@tychase2432 most rtardd answer so far, we are indegenous life of this planet too, I swear people come to this cozzy missinformative videos and pretend they are gods jaja
yuhp its their arena since eternity
@@LuxCirilo Yeah not to mention we fucking own this planet, every living creature was int he evolutionary race and we won, we deserve some perks with that and those perks include not being eaten! Sharks need to learn to stay out of our way and end up in a tuna can.
You need to be the new creative director of Shark Week!!! This is absolutely stunning!
Only that this particular narrative doesn't suit the sensationalist fear-mongering that I suspect still pervades at Shark Week.
shark week is not "pro" sharks, it's pro profits made with the usual old dramatized music,editing and commentary. Besides he's the definition of "DAH" every time he says something,with that obnoxious tone and never ending commentary.
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@@fenecofeneco19 way to be a crazy person 👌🏻
Totally agree!
Sharks swim in the surf as a way to conserve energy or “take a break” from always being on the move in order to breathe. The ocean swells about to break bring frothy oxygen rich water close to shore, the sharks use the the swells to get oxygen from the waves, having to use less energy to breathe as the oxygen comes to them as opposed to them going to the oxygen, so to speak
In other words, the sharks are in the surf to rest, not to hunt
@@patrickbutler87at least some of the time, not all the time, and this does not apply to all types of sharks, just certain species
Makes sense why they always appear so chill in the surf. Thanks for the info
Humm, I'd like to see a scientific reference supporting this hypothesis. The surfer probably didn't see this shark because he was just about to "catch a wave" and was several feet over the shark when he passed over its body. He was focused on surfing, not staring down into the water.
Runs of Fish are chased. I've seen it with bluefish ( more dangerous than sharks imo) often they're basking sharks though that scare us
Martha's Vineyard Jaws territory
I've surfed my whole life and have always wondered if I had been near a great white shark. This video proves that it's probably happened multiple times. The fact that guy saw nothing paddling right over the shark was eye-opening. Stunning.
I grew up in Southern California decades ago and spent a lot of time in the water. Surfer friends all had stories about being out beyond the breakers and seeing, even touching, sharks. They've always been there and thank you for telling the story in your calm, non-sensational way
I see sharks while surfing all the time. The best are the lemon sharks. They seem to be territorial. If there is current and you drift near them, they come to the surface and make a display. Paddle over a bit and keep surfing...😂
My uncle is 75, born and raised in SD and did scuba until recently. Told me I wouldn't surf if I saw what was under the water down here. I have never been scared to surf in SoCal. BUT I learned to surf up in Humboldt County. THAT place is sharky AF and not with these juveniles. Lotsa salmon and seals up there. In 14 years of living up there I personally knew 3 people who were bit or had their boards bit.
@@tyson9419 ya nor cal and central sharks are no joke.
Love this channel! I could watch sharks swim all day. Lived in San Clemente for 10 years, surfers always saw sharks but I never knew anyone who got bit. Did witness a large shark doing some splashing about one morning. Thought it was a baby whale Beaching itself at first. Then realized it was a great white. Had to look on the shark spotting website to see if anyone else saw it. Sure enough 18 foot female was hanging out around SC that day. 😳
@@tyson9419 no one ever sees GW sharks diving down there. Only these juveniles around the surfers. North CA totally different story.
Shark: *trying to hang out, make some new friends*
Surfer: *smack*
Shark: *swims away crying*
I think he was enjoying the company of the surfers.
Lmao
Hayley, this made me laugh. Thanks!
As a surfer in Aus, I know they are there. These videos go a long way to help many of us understand their true behaviour when out past the breakers. Protect and conserve.
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Yes but as an Australian too, we need to do more to get Shark nets removed from our beaches. It kills all marine life and in an awful agonizing death. They are unnecessary but as usual we aussies just sit on our asp and allow government to dictate to us.
@@bari2883 Those nets save HUMAN lives!!!!!
@@d.b.4201 oh god give me a break.
@Gort Newton ummmmm. 50yrs of living around the oceans. Go out with them when they do a net check next time and come back and tell me its rubbish or garbage as you like to call it. Get out of their home if its so dangerous. You really think the councils are going to show the true extent of the carnage that "protects" us although it doesn't stop some sharks. They bait the nets too just to make it all that more safer for us. Try co existing people before our planet can no longer sustain the destruction.
I love your videos because it shows the true nature of sharks without biased editing. Thanks for what you do! This should be educational content
Definitely.
100% agree
It’s like we were intentionally indoctrinated to be afraid of sharks. I was traumatized when I watched JAWS in 3D when I was 7. This channel has helped me tremendously understand the true nature of such magnificent creatures. Along with orcas.
@@reylove33 ♥️
This guy produces better content than Shark Week!
How I love the cool, calm, non-sensational narration on your videos, really nice contrast to stuff like Shark week and similar. Had this been on Shark week all of those surfers had been inches away from certain death. ;) The footage you capture is really amazing!
Exactly.
So true🤙💙 ❤
Think if the MSM delivered some stories like this.
Yep with music to match the frenzy
Shark week is paid for by locals to keep all the kooks out of the water.
Imagine the shark getting slapped by a human and just scooting away like damn lady okay I wasn’t doing anything 😂😂
😂😂😂
@@invisiblehands4000 I wouldn't blame him. I would bite too if someone kicked out of nowhere.
Shark def went on the Shark News and said “it was a brutal and random attack!”
Incredible footage. As a surfer, I am not sure if watching these is good or not. Your mind does crazy things when you are sitting out on a surfboard, and you know they are out there. I am comforted in seeing that they are always around, with so few attacks. I did see at least an 8-10 foot GWS at Sunset beach, north OC 3 years ago, right in the surf line. I freaked out, paddled out as quickly as I could, pulling muscles as i did so. Scared me half to death seeing that Giant Triangle front dorsal fin, and a long notched at the top tail fin, and it looked like those fins were at least 8 feet apart. The shark just headed out to the ocean between over 100 surfers, with no incident. Still was super scary, and to this day that image is burned into my brain. Thanks for sharing these awesome videos. Do you see many between Huntington Beach and Seal Beach?
That would be terrifying. I’m still trying to decide if I’ll surf the east coast since it has more shark attacks per capita and the water is murkier than SoCal.
Lol I’ve had a great white encounter exactly on this beach too near Anderson St. This area is stingray capital of the world cause of the warmed waters from the power plant in seal beach. So it attracts a lot of sharks.
Shark was telling you to stay off his waves Kook!
Can confirm i saw a big fish and a white eel my brain said automatic swim.
We don’t have whites in FL but when I was like 11yo I saw a monster hammerhead checking me out and I paddled in frantically then started playing baseball, never surfed again. Lol.
I spent a lot of time in the water surfing SoCal, Baja, etc. I always suspected they were there more than we knew. I know I've been eye-balled and I felt it. If they really wanted us, there'd be dozens of attacks every week. Your videos are really important, thank you.
The main reason there aren’t more is because they don’t recognize us as prey generally. It’s not that they don’t like our meat it’s usually that they don’t realize we are made out of it. Until one does... once they realize what we are made of, they occasionally act on it. Beautiful, to be respected and feared like any other apex predator. They don’t do things for human or even mammalian reasons. They have no concept of play or beauty or virtue. They use their mouths like we use our hands, to test things out, to see if it’s edible. Most attacks occur from young sharks doing just that, testing us...tasting us. And sometimes they like the taste and come back for more. We are lucky they don’t have very big brains. Can we please stop trying to humanize apex predators that’s main drive is predation.
I enjoy watching your content. Love seeing animals in their natural surroundings.
Who is here after the LA Times story today? This is awesome footage! Thank you so much Malibu artist!
I would love to see a part of the video where you get to talk to the surfers and show them the clips, capture their reactions, and tell them more about your amazing findings!!
I've always been cautious in even a few feet of surf, especially with low visibility, because I KNOW that this is the reality.
Still, it's nice to know that with this much of a presence, they almost never interact with us by choice.
It's astonishing, beautiful, and entirely captivating.
Thanks so much for educating and discussing the reality of shark-human interaction, and life near and in the water.
This work is invaluable, and its impact will be felt.
Shark just chilling, catching the waves and was rudely slapped, then moved away. 🥺 Thank you for these beautiful, well documented videos. Your voice is so calming. I just found your channel and binged most of the videos. 🙂
Thanks a ton! So glad you enjoyed them!
I know right, these videos are awesome.
It is actually very understandable and explainable as to why in waters so clear a surfer can still miss a shark. They're right on top of the water surface, they don't have up-high vision looking straight down, where light can reflect directly back up to your sight (as in the case of the drone). Instead, whatever they may see is highly distorted due to light refraction off the surface of the water, particularly in this scenario captured where the surfer was just beginning to catch the wave swell as he swept past the shark swimming below him.
Still, a very very close shave there. Imagine that we can see all this now because of drone tech, how much more common such close proximity encounters were in the past and nobody would have been the wiser?
At high angles the water is transparent but at low angles there's a lot of glare and reflection of the sky. Surfers should probably wear polarized sunglasses to see into the water. Fun video!
Can’t really surf with sunglasses on.
I think its also the fact the the water is green/dark and the higher you go in the sky the closer you are to the sun so the lighter it is
The sun is 94.789 million miles away. The drone is maybe 300 feet up. I don't really know why you see through water better with some elevation but closer to the sun isn't it.
@@GrowBetterOnYoucrap Its down to something called the Fresnel effect (or Fresnel coefficients), reflections at shallow angles are more prominent than steep angles, the surfers are viewing the water surface at sea level so the reflection of the sky on the surface is occluding the view through the water, as stated above polarized lenses would mitigate this
I am pretty sure the sharks are well aware surfers can't see them. They know exactly how close they can get and still hide.
On my surfski, I see dolphin and seals all the time. Sometimes they follow you at an angle you can't see them.
One seal swam towards me and disappeared. Latter found out he was directly under me at the sea bottom. He saw I saw him, and swam away.
Another time I knew he was under there somewhere. I paddled in a circle just to play a trick on the seal. They likes little games like that sometimes. He finally popped his head out to stare at me to see if I had gone mad. hahaha
Never have I seen a shark though. I imagine they are very intelligent and knows exactly what they are doing, so you won't catch them. Imagine they are not playful like seals either. Don't expect them to pop their head out to stare at you . hahaha
Very nice and for most very educational footage. That is exactly what the human beings need ! Fantastic job man !
Nice comment, but the phrasing makes it sound like you aren’t one of the human beings you’re talking about. XD Not trying to call it a bad comment. I still get what you’re saying, and I agree. Just thought it was funny how you talked about “the human beings” as if you weren’t one of them.
@@Ben_Kimber Well, who says he is?
'The Truth is out there'!
This video is so amazing! I can’t believe that you can miss a great white shark that close to you!👍🏼 100k is coming within 1 month I hope! You definitely deserve it!❤️❤️
If these surfers wore polarized goggles they would be amazed by what they see beneath the waves
Your Videos have become unmissable for me. Not only are they beautifully made, but they are profoundly thought provoking. The more people who get to see these films, the better off sharks, people and the environment in general will be. Please keep up the great work.
So thankful for that comment! Thanks so much!
I seen an article on the Drudge Report about you today! Well deserved! Your work is amazing!!!!!!
I am so proud of you for your informative narration of your drone footage!!! You have continued to learn while filming these misunderstood creatures. Thank you for sharing the beauty most of us cant witness ourselves.
Beautiful words ♥️ adore his videos, they are stunning.
Mate thankyou for your content I live in Australia WA and your footage and narration is helping the world better understand these remarkable and fascinating creatures and may your hard work give you forfullment and wisdom that you desire 🙏✌
"Surely this isn't the first time this has happened."
You're right it isn't, but don't call me Shirley.
When I was at Slough Grammar School ( near Windsor - England, that is - not Ontario!), back in the days of the Lower Cretaceous period, our Geography master was known as 'Shirley' Portus for exactly the reason you have given!
Amazing how they can't notice the shark 😱the water is so clear. Btw amazing video.
Right?! Thanks for watching! :-)
@@TheMalibuArtist if you had to estimate, what would you say is that percentage of time you film there is a shark visible in the water?
@@TheMalibuArtist please let me know. I have asked this question on several other videos and have yet to receive an answer. : if you had to estimate, what would you say is that percentage of time you film there is a shark visible in the water?
Its pretty clear water but he has aerial visual. if your on the surface of the water with the sun beaming down and it reflecting off the water you can probably maybe see a little down but not enough unless the water is really clear.
@@petbull7038 When you think about it the G.W.S's colouration - black on the upper surface; white on the belly - is camouflage which has been perfected by nature over tens of millions of years. Looking down at it from above, the animal blends perfectly into the darkness of the deep; seen from below, it is invisible against the light of the sky.
If the shark's camouflage has been developed to conceal it from its prey - seals - it will be similarly invisible to humans looking into the depths from - say - a surfboard.
I'd like to hope that this information has 'set your mind at rest',
But somehow I doubt it!
I just saw the LA TIMES article that features you and your videos. Congratulations!!
I found your channel by coincidence last night, and I gotta say I love it! I instantly subscribed, your content is unique and amazing. I've always liked marine life and mostly sharks, I love the fact that you're studying them on their natural habitat and informing people about them, mostly that they're not the monsters everybody makes them look like. Please, keep up the content because it's truly amazing! Hopefully someday I'll be able to do something similar to what you're doing, peace bro! ♡ :)
I'm just wondering.. do you wait for the surfers to come out of the water to show them the footage of their close encounters? Since I'm a surfer myself, it would really be an eye-opener and it would give me a much more comfortable feeling to see that sharks are so close nearby without any interest in me instead of the (false) feeling of the risk I'm taking by going into the ocean with sharks around.
Great footage of these encounters.
Thank you for taking the time to produce this.
Incredible visuals! This video may trigger anxiety in some, but I find your images beautiful and strangely reassuring.
Many thanks Gabe.
@@TheMalibuArtist Also I love the narration. It helps with context and youre good at it!
As I watch these videos you are creating and sharing, I say to myself, this man is changing perception of sharks by showing the real behavior and movements of these magnificent creatures. You show the need for caution, the strength in surfer numbers, the juvenile and older shark behavior and the truth that they are Not the aggressive predators Hollywood would have us believe. This is historic. I love your observations. Thank you for your work and compassion.
I so enjoy your beautiful videos and accompanying narrative teaching us more about these amazing creatures! Thank you!❤️
You have THE best GWS channel. Your speaking style is calming, as well which ads comfort and assuredness to feeling "safe" with sharks.
That being said, I'm still a kid of the 70's ....
This is both serenely beautiful and bone-chilling all at once. An ode to nature itself in a way. It seems impossible from that view that they cannot see the apex predator cruising around them, but it must be the case. Stay safe out there and stay smart. For the surfers and the sharks sake.
You're doing great work with your footage. I sincerely hope this is the kind of content that replaces the typical shark week kind of stuff in the near future. I love how relaxing your narration is, too.
Wow, SHARK ALERT!! How unbelievable was your video. My bloody toes were curling, I can tell you. Fantastic footage, super resolution, scary as feck, while your incredibly calming voice over is truly enjoyable. Love to hate them, but can’t wait for the next. Huge respect from the UK 🇬🇧
You know how you have awards for films. Do they have one for amazing RUclips videos/ documentaries? Man you would be at the top of the list sir!!!
Your video presentation, narration and subjects (sharks and coastline) are superb and second to no one.
Man if I were National Geographic or Nature I would be scooping you up and have you make some amazing shows/episodes/documentaries!!!!
..."the humans these sharks share their home with"....
Thank you for that statement, and for this beautiful video.
I get so frustrated when people blame attacks on the shark...hey, it's in their living room, not ours!
This is my new favorite RUclips channel. I love sharks so much and I am so so happy to see that the attitude towards them is changing.
I remember when the movie Jaws came out and everybody was scared to go into the ocean because of sharks. They were hunted just for the kill. Total insanity. These videos show just how these magnificent creatures do react to humans. Awesome work!
Spielberg owes sharks worldwide a massive debt.
To premiere this built up the want to watch and did not disappoint. You have a unique perspective and others can glean from that. Amazing footage!
I love your videos💕 and this one is absolutely amazing!
You’re a great bloke. Keep up your inspirational work!
Thank you for making these videos. I became interested in shark when I was a junior in high school. I even did my senior research paper on it. These are not the monsters society likes to make them out to be. I think why they frighten people, is because of how powerful an animal this is. But they are not mindless and we still have so much to learn about them. Your content is something that should shown during shark week and not what they show which panders towards the “danger” hype.
Thanks for your amazing videos! Even in clear water when I surf you can't really see what's beneath you due to the glare, stirred up water from waves, you're attention straight out looking for waves, and the water is not nearly as clear as it's shown from above. Your drone shows the ocean in ways a surfer could never tell and I surf in south Orange and San Diego counties which has pretty clear water. A year ago I started stand up paddle surfing too and I've seen much more marine life including 2 whites, some leopard sharks, turtles, and plenty of fish. You can see many more things paddling than surfing but still nothing compared to the incredible drone filming you're doing. Thanks again!
This is some of the most compelling wildlife footage I’ve ever seen. And congratulations on the LA Times article, well deserved.
I read a yahoo article that mentioned your channel. I am so happy to have found you! This is wonderful footage and your message is great! Great whites get a bad rap. Thank you for this!
I've always wondered how often big sharks pass right by surfers and swimmers without being seen. Seems like it probably happens all the time. Kind of disconcerting on the one hand but on the other it's comforting that a lot of these sharks clearly have no real desire to harm us most of the time.
I just recently (as in like 3 days ago) started watching your videos. I am addicted. I am an avid shark lover. I live in Florida less than a mile from the Gulf of Mexico. I've only seen a few sharks in the 7 years I've lived here. And I go to the beach at least every other day. Your videos have inspired me to want to learn how to fly a drone. We have a few piers over the span of a few towns but obviously they dont have the mobility of a drone. I've only ever seen one shark from any of the piers. Thank you so much for sharing your videos. They are incredibly eye opening and just downright amazing! Please keep sharing!
The first and only time I saw a Great White in the water was a day I will never forget. A friend and I paddled out at a pretty crowded break called El Porto but went a little further down to get away from everybody. It was about an hour before sunset and the light was distorted because of the clouds so it was hard to see at times. At one point I got separated from my buddy and was sitting at a peak waiting on a wave. I figured he had caught a wave. I began to paddle and looked out and saw a huge fin. My heart stopped. I hadn't felt a fear like that before. I couldn't move my arms and it felt like a dream where the monster is chasing you and you can't run. I turned away trying to convince myself that it was just my imagination. I turned a second time and saw the same fin, still swimming perpendicular to me, probably 50 yards away. I can only guesstimate to how big the fin was and fear definitely played a factor but I have spent thousands of hours in the water, seen countless dolphins, had a whale breach 20 feet in front of me, and I would guess this shark was 14 feet plus. My heart rate was still abnormally fast but the fear paralysis was starting to wane as my flight sensor started to kick in. I looked out one more time and saw the same fin. I don't know why I kept looking out as to confirm my eyes weren't playing tricks on me, but after that third time I started to swim in and yell for my friend. I paddled for a couple more minutes screaming his name thinking the worst had happened and then finally I found him smiling after catching a wave. I was ecstatic just to see him. I told him what I had just seen and he gave a quick laugh and said 'It was probably just a dolphin'. I know what I had seen and the difference between the fin I saw and a dolphin. But somehow, this was comforting to me. We ended up staying in the water for another 45 minutes trading waves. My fear had completely subsided. I can't say it was a wise decision but there was no harm or foul, and after all, the shark wasn't swimming after us. It was swimming perpendicular to the beach, probably just out on a daily cruise. That day taught me a lot about fear, and sharks for that matter.
Thanks for reading.
Your dedicated work is sooo important and highly appreciated! ❤ Thank you so much! 🤗
don't fool yourselves the sharks are just waiting for covid to pass by :D
Yes they know if they bite you they have to pass quarantine, thats why they wait this year
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LMAO!!!!!!!
I thought they were waiting to be vaccinated
ok I don't think you realize why we need sharks they are vital to the ecosystem without them humanity wouldn't survive bc they are top predator of the ocean food chain and without them the ocean would die no ocean no humans
Love your channel, ...great work. Look forward to every new video. I grew up in Newport Beach, our life was spent on the beach and in the ocean , and still is today. Nothing more beautiful, peaceful and full of wonder. My safe place, my serenity. Thankyou for sharing your gift with all of us .
Amazing video - I wish every single human could see this. They are absolutely always out there - I find that most surfers have a profound respect for the ocean like myself and I like to think our buddies below have a tentative agreement with us. Being responsible is a huge way to stay safe - it's their ocean, we are just the visitors during every paddle out. I think sharks are beautiful, and so is this footage. Great work!
That’s what Simon Nellist thought also
Love your channel man, i watch it with calmness and feel so much joy. You are the only one who don't manipulate when you talk.
You are always capturing truly amazing moments!
This is probably the best shark video I’ve seen in my life and I’ve watched shark documentaries for the past 15 years.
“White Sharks near the shore, seem to be more common that I thought”
It’s not that I don’t like sharks
But I wouldn’t want to swim with one
if you've swum in the ocean at all, you've probably swam with a shark and just didn't know it
Cannot get enough of this footage and commentary!! Thank you 🙏🏻
"The surfer slapped his hand" nah man he gave the shark a high five haha
Thank you so much for your videos but also thank you even more for making me appreciate even more how gorgeous our waters are off the coast of Southern California!
Most of the time a bite occurs, we are tasted and spat out. Can you imagine all the chemicals you would taste if you bit through a wetsuit, a bathing suit, soap, shampoo, conditioner, shaving cream, moisturizer, sunscreen, HARMaceuticals in the system, GMO food, etc... YUCK!!
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lol so true
Maybe that is really a thing!
This is by far my favourite RUclips channel of all time. I'm completely transfixed - incredible stuff.
“Boys in grey tuxes are out again”...surfers in Malibu are very aware. That’s their common language.
Geez, Carlos, what an excellent new video! Thanks for the wonderful job you are doing educating the public on the reality of what white sharks are all about. In terms of safety of in the water contacts, you have stressed the importance of keeping eye contact and facing them, whether swimming or on a board. After many years of body surfing in the Gulf of Mexico, I think I would rather be in the water with juvenile white sharks than adult bull sharks. Do you get much drone footage of other varieties of sharks and does their behavior differ much?
These videos always make me smile. I’ve always been afraid of sharks but your videos make me appreciate them so much.
These videos are beautiful and tell a positive story about The Great White. Much respect from Sydney, Australia.
a billionaire was having a party at his beach resort and in his beach resort he had a huge aquarium with great white sharks in it.
he announced to everyone at the party that whoever could swim across the big aquarium without getting attacked could either have all his money, his wife, or his house.
so when everyone got back to talking all of a sudden a guy is in the aquarium swimming as fast as he can and when he gets to the other side and jumps out.
the billionaire goes.. "Holy shit, I didn’t think anyone was going to do it, but anyway, you want the money right?" and the guy says "no",
so the billionaire says, "oh, you want my house?" and the guys says "no" and so the billionaire says," what, you want my wife, then?"
but the guys says "hell no"
so the billionaire says "well what the heck do you want?"
the guys still trying to catch his breath says, " I want the bastard who pushed me in the aquarium”
Absolutely amazing footage and exceptional commentary - measured & insightful. Thanks for sharing
I know they aren’t man eaters and we aren’t on their menu but I’m sorry they are the most terrifying things on planet earth. What’s crazy is if they just do a curious bite that can kill us. However I might think they are the most terrifying things but they are also extremely fascinating.
These are scary..
ruclips.net/video/LMFvEJXDAmY/видео.html
I was fortunate to go see them in person.
@@mister_ray they aren’t scary and I can’t watch that. I’d much rather encounter one of those over a great white shark any day of the week. What that dragon is doing to that deer isn’t scary it’s nature and it’s the rawest form of nature.
Humans are the most terrifying things on the planet look what we have killed and destroyed
@@BrooklynVega1 That gave me goosebumps
@@BrooklynVega1 I see your point but let’s be honest here if you were surfing and another surfer paddled next to you I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t be terrified. However if you were surfing and a great white shark came up right next to you I’m pretty sure that would be much more terrifying. Do you see my point? Not all humans destroy things. The animal kingdom is extremely ruthless too but in a different way.
Your calm, non sensationalistic post is a treat.
I think the work you're doing to showcase natural shark behaviour as non-aggressive and non-threatening toward humans is going to go a long way to changing people's perceptions of them. This will hopefully help secure protected status for many shark species that need its well as fixing the broken rhetoric that sharks are mindless killing machines.
Thanks so much and please keep the videos coming!
You are completely misinterpreting the behavior because you’re attributing human concepts to sharks. They aren’t like us, they don’t have our motivations. They are highly beautiful, highly dangerous apex predators that should be respected and feared. Fallaciously attributing human characteristics to the, is often how accidents happen.
AMAZING footage. When I was in high school surfing new Smyrna inlet in Florida, I’ll never forget the overcast sky, dark water, and the dorsal fin coming right at me and swimming by me, and all I could see was the fin, couldn’t see anything but the fin and it was right next to me. I’m 52 now and the thought of that memory still blows my mind. The shark that swam right by me was definitely investigating me that day, I always thank God that it never bit me. I can still hear the water treading on each side of the dorsal fin as it approached me, crazy.
Missed the premiere, but I still love the content! This one was really scary and awesome to watch. Thank you, for giving us a safe outlet to explore these beautiful predators.
Your videos are amazing!! Thank you for sharing! One year ago I was maybe five feet from what looked like a juvenile white shark up in norther California, at Bolinas beach. I was body surfing next to a surfer who saw it with me. We were stunned and discussed wether or not it was really a white shark. It didn't seem to show much, if any interest in either of us, or the near 30 other people in the water. These videos show that it was very possibly a white shark and we were not what it was looking for.
I wish someone would do this off Cape Cod. They have some big ones out there.
I planned to do it in Cape Code this summer. I even reached out to Atlantic White Shark Conservancy that's based there. They didn't want to help me with much of the planning of filming sharks there. I wanted local knowledge in exchange for drone footage. I didn't even ask or want free boat tours or whatever (I don't need that for what I'm doing). But they weren't' interested unfortunately.
@@TheMalibuArtist definitely there loss!!
Oh wow. .that sucks. Beaches are free. Just head on over lol. They may be worried about bad publicity after someone was killed a couple years ago. Like someone else said...their loss
That blows on the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy's part. I am disappointed in them.
@@TheMalibuArtist probably because of the impact they fear it may have to tourism or the offering is not offering what they need? Worth finding what that is? Perhaps a strategy with a monetary incentive or charitable cause they may help you. Otherwise contacting local surfers or people with boats
New to your channel, many thanks for a professional vlog. You put Shark Week scary hype to shame. Amazing drone vids . 🦈🦈
Shark attacks are very rare because they don't really eat humans, and if they do attack it's because they're curious.
@Omertà Don83 Oceanic White Tips are very opportunist and the navy personnel were in the water for days.. word gets round in the ocean when an unexpected feed is around in the middle of what is a very wet desert. Also its disputed how many were taken by sharks amongst those lost. Also we all know that all shark attacks are staged by Orcas because they are evil. ;)
@Omertà Don83 as I’m sure you’ve found out by researching, oceanic white tips are nasty buggers. Says something when it shares the top four deadliest spots with bulls, tigers and great whites.
Thanks for your reassuring explanation. Such a great weight off my mind!
@@madmags969 Bull sh..arks!
@@surkularsinisism1989 I remember reading Men and Sharks by Hans Hass - a 1950 / 60s - era marine biologist who was an early pioneer of scuba diving and making TV documentaries.
One chapter in his book included an encounter between him and one of his team and an Oceanic White Tip.
Hass's account of the way the animal exhibited a very unhealthy and aggressive interest in them, which prompted them to beat a hasty retreat to the safety of the dive boat, led him to opine that this species posed a real danger to people adrift in the open sea.
Our family stayed in San Diego in May this year. On our visit to La Jolla, the beach behind the seawall was closed due to seal pupping. In all, there were around 35 - 40 adult seals and pups lying on the beach, or playing in the surf. A couple of the larger seals had some scary slash marks on their back and sides, suggestive of shark attacks. Have you ever taken the drones down the harbour at La Jolla to see what's lurking off-shore...?
I wonder if attacks occur only when the GWS prey is present and the GWS was already in hunt mode. A case of the surfer being “in the wrong place @ the right time “. Perfect storm.
I saw a video where diver was diving where GWSs were feeding on seals - it was murky sea full of that big sea grass - can't remember the name. He did to prove that they are really not man eaters even when in hunt mode.
@@kvarnerinfoTV So is he shark poop now tho? eeh eeh
This is one of the greatest channels I've ever subbed to. Great work!
The shark just tryna hang out with the surfers like, "Whassup guys, beautiful day innit?!" Swimming away all happy and shit like, "I got a high five from one of the guys!! Hope they ask me to sit at their lunch table tomorrow."
Fantastic footage yet again!
Having personally surfed off the coasts of San Diego, Orange, and L.A. Counties, this is actually scarier than any horror movie I've seen. Lol. Although their behaviour here it indicates it shouldn't be.
Gorgeous photo, and terrific narration! Love it.
That was such a beautiful video to watch, thank you for sharing it with us. I have been fascinated by sharks ever since my close encounter when I was around 12 years old. I wasn't bitten but I could have been if their hadn't been dolphins that helped me get back to shore.
Thank you for opening people’s minds!!! 🙏🏻
It's always funny how they say the attacks were a case of a misidentification, like they were able to interview the shark later. Shark: "Yeah. Yeah. I totally thought that skinny little dude was a seal. I mean I totally would not have bitten him otherwise. Those movies about me are sooooo wrong."
told you already ,you are a valuable contribution to science, i am really enjoying the work you do thanks mate !! dutch Otto
I am beginning to realise that humanity is generally hysterically scared of nature on nearly all levels. It explains alot
We used to get eaten a lot. It's a scary world without our technology.
Nature did not bless us with teeth, claws, armor nor speed. In fact, we're quite defenseless if not for our brain.
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Oh the claws we can think of though.
On ALL levels not just about fear of being killed .which would not have actually been that much of a hazard unless an individual became separated from the group.
As a surfer in SoCal I appreciate this. I’ve seen two breach while surfing. Always a thrill. Thanks amigo 🤙
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“Shark attack” is just a phrase until it happens to you.
Hi @TheMalibuArtist !
Thank you for your incredible RUclips Channel. I enjoy every second of your aerial shots... Being stuck in quarantine has been hard for me, so having your videos available make it easier.
Keep up the great job. Happy New Year!
Thank you for these videos. Your videos open up awareness to the fact that sharks are beautiful and not what is generally thought about them.
Awesome video and narration. Instead of sensationalizing sharks like 99% of people do. It’s their territory, we are just visitors.