{"id":134519,"date":"2025-09-10T20:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T20:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/134519\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T20:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T20:01:08","slug":"watch-a-pair-of-great-white-sharks-get-very-very-close-to-a-california-kayak-fisherman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/134519\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch a Pair of Great White Sharks Get Very, Very Close to a California Kayak Fisherman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Too close. A little bit too close. Photo: YouTube\/\/Screenshot<\/p>\n

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Great white sharks are a bit of a mystery to us. That\u2019s strange, because generally when we become so morbidly fascinated with something, we\u2019ve got a tendency to research it to death \u2014 sometimes quite literally. Shark researchers will be the first to tell you that there\u2019s a ton we don\u2019t know, and Carlos Gauna is one of them.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery summer, great white sharks return to the California coast,\u201d he says, \u201cand every year they remind me of just how much we don\u2019t really understand about their behaviors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite our tendency to think of them as mindless killing machines, we really aren\u2019t on their menu. They\u2019re curious animals \u2014 apex predators that use curiosity to seek out more prey \u2014 and most of the time, attacks are either test bites<\/a> or self-defense<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the video you see here, Carlos Gauna tracks a couple of great white sharks as they follow a kayak fisherman.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom above, I captured the entire encounter on drone,\u201d Gauna wrote<\/a>. \u201cOne shark made several close approaches to the kayak, while another seemed more interested in the larger shark than the fisherman himself. At one point, a third shark may have even joined in. This is one of the closest and most surprising kayak encounters with white sharks I\u2019ve ever filmed.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Too close. A little bit too close. Photo: YouTube\/\/Screenshot Great white sharks are a bit of a mystery…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,11592,41189,73256,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-134519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-great-white-shark","11":"tag-great-white-sharks","12":"tag-kayak-fisherman","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}