An angler's fishing in Hawaii turned into a horrific incident when amassive tiger shark attacked him and tooka bite out of his kayak.
According to NY Post, the wildencounter took place Friday afternoonless than a mile off the coast of O’ahu.
The angler namedScott Haraguchi was catching fish when he heard a "whooshing sound" which he described as aboat without a motor.
The video was captured by Haraguchi'sGoPro camera when the tiger shark crashed into hiskayak and chewed its side.
"A tiger shark rammed me!" screamedHaraguchi when the sharkknocks the kayak off balance.
The angler said that he escaped the shark and resumed to fish, only to realise later how close he came to being attacked by thepredator.
At first, he thought that it was a turtle when he saw a "wide brown thing" in the water. He said that the shark might have mistaken his kayak for aseal.
“[It] happened so fast. [I] didn’t realise I took my left foot out of the water to brace myself from impact and actually pushed the shark’s head off with it,” he recalled.
“If you asked me to do that again, even without the shark, I don’t think I’d have that flexibility (sic).”
“I’m thinking that the shark disabled and wounded the seal…and was waiting for it to die, came back and thought I was the seal, and attacked me instead,” he said.
The video shared by the angler has garnered over88,000 views. The man was saved from this horrific encounter and walked away unharmed.
“I realise that life is short, time is short on earth,” he remarked. “Make the most of it, be nice to people.”