{"id":324356,"date":"2025-12-19T09:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/324356\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:15:12","slug":"tiger-shark-produces-tense-moments-for-couple-in-transparent-kayak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/324356\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger shark produces tense moments for couple in transparent kayak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A couple in a transparent kayak was greeted recently by a large tiger shark that produced several anxious moments and lots of nervous laughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cBaby, he\u2019s coming to have a look at us,\u201d Lauren, of the jay.and.loz Instagram page, warns at the beginning of the clip. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSPXpFwjGvc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:footage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">footage<\/a>, posted below, was captured at Shark Bay in Western Australia.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Tiger shark approaches transparent kayak.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"576\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/28afeab4f7c30e43ec6c72df056773b1.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tiger shark approaches transparent kayak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The couple\u2019s audible reactions, especially those of Lauren (Loz?), become amplified with each passing of shark that appears to be investigating a potential source of prey. (Tiger sharks have been known to bite floating objects such as kayaks and surfboards.)<\/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\">Note the smaller shark that approaches the kayak first, only to be frightened off by the tiger shark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on For The Win: <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/outdoors\/2025\/12\/18\/tiger-shark-gives-kayakers-fright-shark-bay-western-australia\/87828790007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tiger shark gives kayakers a fright \u2013 repeatedly \u2013 off Australia;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Tiger shark gives kayakers a fright \u2013 repeatedly \u2013 off Australia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A couple in a transparent kayak was greeted recently by a large tiger shark that produced several anxious&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[127577,76302,90,127576,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-324356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-anxious-moments","9":"tag-kayak","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-tiger-shark","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom","15":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}