{"id":217878,"date":"2025-12-30T09:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/217878\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T09:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:56:09","slug":"amazing-experience-as-great-white-shark-snagged-off-barwon-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/217878\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Amazing experience’ as great white shark snagged off Barwon Heads"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar Ford knew he had snagged something big.<\/p>\n

But he never imagined it would be a great white shark.<\/p>\n

The Victorian carpenter was with three inexperienced cousins, two of them children, when he snagged the giant fish off Barwon Heads on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/Oscar Ford knew he had snagged something big. (Nine)\"\"\/He never imagined it would be a great white shark. (Nine)<\/p>\n

“It’s a f—ing white, holy shh, holy crap, I’ve caught a white off Barwon Heads,” he screamed as cameras recorded the epic catch.<\/p>\n

The carpenter battled for more than half an hour to reel the shark in close.<\/p>\n

Every moment of the once-in-a-lifetime experience was captured on an array of GoPro cameras.<\/p>\n

“He’s biting the boat, get that on film, get that on film,” he can be heard saying.<\/p>\n

The fishers even dunked one of the cameras into the water for an incredible closer look at the beast.<\/p>\n

“I was just in disbelief, I was like this is insane, I would never have thought this would happen,” Ford told 9News.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/The fishers even dunked one of the cameras into the water for an incredible closer look at the beast. (Nine)\"\"\/Every moment of the once-in-a-lifetime experience was captured on an array of GoPro cameras (Nine)<\/p>\n

“I had so much emotion, so much adrenaline running through me.<\/p>\n

“I was feeling a million different emotions, I was feeling on top of the world.”<\/p>\n

Ford pushed off Ocean Grove early on Sunday to fish for tuna but switched to a snapper mark near Barwon Heads after a quiet few hours to set a bait balloon.<\/p>\n

“We chucked it out and 45 minutes later we see a fin sort of just circling the balloon and then out of nowhere it just started splashing the water, going crazy,” he said.<\/p>\n

Great whites are a protected species so Ford never brought his catch on board, cutting it loose to go free.<\/p>\n

“As soon as we saw it we were going crazy, it was just such an amazing experience to see such a big beautiful animal,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Ford knew he had snagged something big. But he never imagined it would be a great white…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-217878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}