{"id":468578,"date":"2026-05-26T22:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/468578\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T22:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:59:08","slug":"watch-great-white-shark-bites-camera-off-southern-california-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/468578\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Great white shark bites camera off Southern California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">May 26 (UPI) &#8212; A man taking video of sharks off the coast of Southern California ended up capturing footage of the inside of a great white shark&#8217;s mouth when it chomped down on a camera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Carlos Gauna, aka The Malibu Artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ti39qUWgVSw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:on YouTube;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;on YouTube&quot;}\" class=\"link \">on YouTube<\/a>, said he was out on his kayak in late April using multiple cameras and a drone to take footage of sharks when one great white approached one of his cameras and tried to take a bite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been around them a lot,&#8221; Gauna <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/malibu-shark-bites-camera-filmmaker\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:told KTLA-TV.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;told KTLA-TV.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">told KTLA-TV.<\/a> &#8220;They don&#8217;t normally come at you like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gauna said he had lost contact with his friend operating the drone so he didn&#8217;t know the shark&#8217;s position at first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Not knowing where the shark is and I look back and the shadow of the shark is right there,&#8221; he said. &#8220;By the time I got comms with him, all I can hear is my buddy yelling, &#8216;He got the camera! He got the camera!'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gauna said the shark did not manage to swim away with the camera, but it did crack the protective dome around his equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 26 (UPI) &#8212; A man taking video of sharks off the coast of Southern California ended up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1163,10876,61,60,82,69318,263],"class_list":["post-468578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-camera","tag-great-white-shark","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-southern-california","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468578","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=468578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}