{"id":586623,"date":"2026-04-15T23:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/586623\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T23:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:12:09","slug":"sharks-go-into-feeding-frenzy-in-wild-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/586623\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks go into &#8216;feeding frenzy&#8217; in wild video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA professional surfer who fishes in his spare time captured an incredible moment off the coast of Cape Point, North Carolina, when sharks went into a &#8220;feeding frenzy&#8221; all around him.See the moment in the video above.Dozens of sharks circled near the surface during the incident on Monday, and the video shows the sharks surrounding the watercraft as it moved through the area, CNN reported.The fisherman, Brett Barley, said he was fishing on a personal watercraft when he encountered the frenzy. Brett Barley got out his GoPro to record the event. He said, &#8220;If you see a lot of sharks above the surface, there&#8217;s probably more below.&#8221;Barley yelled, &#8220;Get me out of here!&#8221; while recording the video.He posted about the experience on his Instagram account.&#8221;On top of the hundreds of Sharks eating bait over a four-acre wide area, a big school of Red Drum blitzed in to join the party!&#8221; Barley said.He called the experience &#8220;a full-on Nat Geo moment&#8221; and remained calm while navigating the shark-infested waters.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tBUXTON, N.C. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.surfer.com\/news\/brett-barley-hundreds-of-sharks-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A professional surfer<\/a> who fishes in his spare time captured an incredible moment off the coast of Cape Point, North Carolina, when sharks went into a &#8220;feeding frenzy&#8221; all around him.<\/p>\n<p>See the moment in the video above.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of sharks circled near the surface during the incident on Monday, and the video shows the sharks surrounding the watercraft as it moved through the area, CNN reported.<\/p>\n<p>The fisherman, Brett Barley, said he was fishing on a personal watercraft when he encountered the frenzy. <\/p>\n<p>Brett Barley got out his GoPro to record the event. He said, &#8220;If you see a lot of sharks above the surface, there&#8217;s probably more below.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barley yelled, &#8220;Get me out of here!&#8221; while recording the video.<\/p>\n<p>He posted about the experience <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXFPBkMES9j\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on his Instagram account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On top of the hundreds of Sharks eating bait over a four-acre wide area, a big school of Red Drum blitzed in to join the party!&#8221; Barley said.<\/p>\n<p>He called the experience &#8220;a full-on Nat Geo moment&#8221; and remained calm while navigating the shark-infested waters. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A professional surfer who fishes in his spare time captured an incredible moment off the coast of Cape&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[200917,256646,72280,256658,256645,15276,76057,12857,133480,5223,256647,256648,256656,120090,9079,256657,4583,65820,20194,60707,256649,256650,256651,79,8207,56909,256652,256653,61794,9460,25438,256654,56328,256655,151346,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-586623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-bait","9":"tag-bait-fish","10":"tag-brett-barley","11":"tag-cape-point","12":"tag-cape-point-north-carolina","13":"tag-coastal-waters","14":"tag-dozen","15":"tag-experience","16":"tag-feeding-frenzy","17":"tag-fisherman","18":"tag-fishing-incident","19":"tag-fishing-trip","20":"tag-frenzy","21":"tag-gopro","22":"tag-hundred","23":"tag-incredible-moment","24":"tag-instagram-video","25":"tag-kmnd","26":"tag-marine-life","27":"tag-north-carolina-coast","28":"tag-ocean-wildlife","29":"tag-personal-watercraft","30":"tag-red-drum","31":"tag-science","32":"tag-shark","33":"tag-shark-encounter","34":"tag-shark-footage","35":"tag-shark-swarm","36":"tag-shark-video","37":"tag-sharks","38":"tag-surface","39":"tag-surfer-fisherman","40":"tag-watercraft","41":"tag-waters-off-cape-point","42":"tag-wild-video","43":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}