Video Terrifying Close Call SHARK Encounters

Everyone gets hyped around Shark Week. But what about when you’re actually out on the water and sharks are coming towards you? Here’s stories of some people barely making it by unscathed as these terrifying creatures of the deep swam nearby.

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6. Great White Shark vs Inflatable Boat
Those are two things you never want to have a combination of, because who knows which one is going to win out? That’s exactly what was going through the minds of these tourists who were on an inflatable boat out on the waters of Mossel Bay in South Africa. One of them filmed the whole thing on a GoPro, and in the video you can see exactly how up close and personal this great white shark this boat full of people got. The shark was a 12 ft female great white shark who sunk its teeth into the side of the dinghy, which then caused part of the rubber boat to deflate. The group were on a sightseeing tour when the instance took place.

5. Diver Gets Chased
A diver in South Africa by the name of Johan Potgieter, was swimming underneath the waters of the coast when he came across a Great White Shark. The shark didn’t seem deterred at all, as Johan, who’s a spearfisherman, tries to poke it away with his speargun. In the video that was taken, the shark seems to appear out of nowhere swimming much too close to Johan--who said the shark was only about an arm’s length away. Johan and two other divers were about 19 m below the water’s surface off the coast of Arniston, South Africa when the shark came to them. Johan tries poking it with his spear to scare it off or fend it away. For a while, it starts to swim away, only to make a sudden turn right back around towards him.

4. Fight For Food
A camera was rolling and manage to capture this terrifying scene as it unfolded. A man from New Zealand, Nat Davey, who used to work as a commercial fisherman and is a well-trained diver, was in the waters of Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean when he had speared a yellowfin tuna. He was planning to eat the fish later for dinner, and it appears that the 2 sharks that came after him had the same thing in mind. A pair of Galapagos sharks probably smelled the blood from the spearing or thought maybe it’d be an easy catch and tried to pull the tuna away from Davey. The sharks started to pull blows on Davey, who had already let go of the tuna. Davey hit one of the sharks back and managed to get away.

3. Shopping Mall Flood
A shopping mall is probably the last place you thought you’d see a shark swimming in the water towards you, but those are the times we live in. Back in 2012, at the Shanghai Oriental Shopping Center, a 33 ton aquarium full of small sharks had exploded out of nowhere, sending glass and tons of sharks right towards shoppers. Mall cameras captured the moment, and as you can see the area by the huge tank was not empty at the time the glass shattered. The force of the breaking glass was strong enough to tear through the structure of adjacent shopping stands.

2. Face To Face
On what she describes as a “dream trip” to the Guadalupe island, Tam Warner Minton traveled with her husband and children so as to cage dive with a bunch of Great White Sharks. Most people who go and cage dive with sharks know exactly what they’re going in for, or at least they have the mind to be terrified enough to be in the water with a shark but know that the cage they’re sitting in will be enough to keep them out. Well, this is a photo that was taken of Minton in the cage, and it might be enough to deter anyone from trying it. While in the cage, the shark panicked after getting stuck in the opening. It ended up thrashing violently as a fellow diver held Minton back from the panicked shark.

Close Call
Chris Rapson, the diver in the video, managed to capture the scene when a great white shark decided to chase him while he was swimming through the waters off the coast of Adelaide in South Australia. A diver in their group said they saw a shark and started swimming to the surface of the water. Not everyone else could see so clearly, and everyone kept swimming. And that’s when the great white shark appeared to come out of nowhere as Rapson was 18 meters below the surface of the water. Other divers managed to pull Rapson back to keep the shark from getting to him.