{"id":122499,"date":"2025-11-07T06:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/122499\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T06:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:53:11","slug":"viral-video-shows-shark-leaping-from-water-onto-fishing-boat-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/122499\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral video shows shark leaping from water onto fishing boat in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">A viral video captured the moment a shark leaped out of the water in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/new-zealand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New Zealand<\/a> and landed on a fishing boat, stunning the passengers on board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The incident happened in Whitianga, New Zealand, in early November 2022, according to Storyful.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/science\/wild-nature\/sharks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">mako shark<\/a> bursts from the water and lands on the bow of the boat, flopping around before coming to rest near the front of the vessel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/75-foot-boat-surfs-wave-runs-aground-hawaii\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">75-FOOT BOAT SURFS WAVE, RUNS AGROUND IN HAWAII<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mako-shark-jumps-on-boat.jpg\" alt=\"Shark jumps on a boat in New Zealand\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>A shark was seen leaping out of the water in New Zealand and landing on a fishing boat, stunning the passengers on board. (Churchys Charters NZ via Storyful)<\/p>\n<p>After several moments, the shark managed to wriggle free and return to the ocean unharmed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/beach-bliss-turns-chaotic-shark-lunges-snorkeler-he-could-have-ripped-my-arm-off\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">BEACH BLISS TURNS CHAOTIC AS SHARK LUNGES AT SNORKELER: &#8216;HE COULD HAVE RIPPED MY ARM OFF&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/shark-jumps-onto-nz-boat.jpg\" alt=\"Shark jumps onto a boat in New Zealand in 2022\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>The incident happened in Whitianga, New Zealand, in early November 2022. (Churchys Charters NZ via Storyful)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The shocked passengers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/great-outdoors\/boating\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">on the boat<\/a> were also unharmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A viral video captured the moment a shark leaped out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,14861,71482,406,377],"class_list":{"0":"post-122499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-sharks","13":"tag-wild-nature","14":"tag-wildlife","15":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}