{"id":668345,"date":"2026-10-29T00:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T00:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/668345\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T00:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T00:46:09","slug":"watch-the-exact-moment-shark-attacks-inflatable-kayak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/668345\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: The Exact Moment Shark Attacks Inflatable Kayak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/h2o_by_motorcycle\/?g=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Jeff Tiddens<\/a> was kayak fishing off the coast of California when, suddenly, a mako shark rammed into this inflatable kayak, piercing a hole in the bottom. He began filming just in time to capture the moment on camera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHave been wondering what I would do if a shark attacked my inflatable kayak. Now I know! Was trying to catch a yellowtail today out of Redondo Beach\u2019s King Harbor when I hooked into this 4-5 foot Mako Shark,\u201d wrote Tiddens in an Instagram post sharing the video. \u201cIt took about 29 minutes to finally find out it was a mako and within seconds it became chaos. I was trying to slowly bring it close enough to cut it free and it decided a better idea was to charge at the kayak and bite it! The power and speed were amazing and immediately I knew it had sank its teeth into the kayak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/kayak-fisherman-has-close-encounter-with-great-white-shark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kayak Fisherman Has Close Encounter With Great White Shark<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tiddens says he was about a mile and a half from shore when it happened. Thankfully, the kayak has three different chambers, and only the floor chamber deflated. He reached shore still afloat. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch the exact moment a mako shark attacked an inflatable kayak below (or see it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DeSaNKnSPTm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here\u2019s part two:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Header stock image by Johner Images\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeff Tiddens was kayak fishing off the coast of California when, suddenly, a mako shark rammed into this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,283094,82,3870,263,85274],"class_list":["post-668345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kayak-fishing","tag-science","tag-shark","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668345","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=668345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}