{"id":348333,"date":"2026-01-02T15:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/348333\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T15:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:43:07","slug":"great-white-shark-stuns-anglers-as-they-reel-smaller-shark-to-boat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/348333\/","title":{"rendered":"Great white shark stuns anglers as they reel smaller shark to boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A New Zealand-based fishing site has shared footage showing a great white shark rising from the depths to attack what remained of a smaller hooked shark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cUp close and personal with the King of the Ocean,\u201d BlueWater Brothers described via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bluewaterbrothersnz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The angler in the footage explains, \u201cWe caught a shark, and then our shark\u2019s been eaten by a great white.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Great white shark claiming its prize.\" 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\/2026\/01\/33f33be67aa824056a967a0d0cb03d69.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Great white shark claiming its prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The hooked shark (not a great white) appears to have been bitten in half by the time the footage begins. But the white shark is shown shark returning to claim the rest of its prize.<\/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\">The BlueWater Brothers explained: \u201cAfter this video we de-hooked the smaller shark and allowed the White to finish his feed before going his own way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/preoccupied-diver-unaware-enormous-shark-163143442.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:ALSO: Massive shark surprises preoccupied diver in Indonesia;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ALSO: Massive shark surprises preoccupied diver in Indonesia<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The accompanying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DS8d0GikwTG\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:video clip;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">video clip<\/a>, which contains profanity, has garnered more than 100,00 views since it was posted Wednesday.<\/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\/2026\/01\/01\/fishing-great-white-shark-attacks-hooked-shark-surreal-footage-new-zealand\/87977747007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Great white shark attacks smaller hooked shark in surreal footage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Great white shark attacks smaller hooked shark in surreal footage<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New Zealand-based fishing site has shared footage showing a great white shark rising from the depths to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[134451,12474,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-348333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-bluewater-brothers","9":"tag-great-white-shark","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom","14":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348333","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=348333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}