A New Brunswick man came face-to-face with a great white shark on a recent fishing trip. What they first thought was a tuna turned out to be something much bigger.
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00:00 [music playing]
00:03 [water splashing]
00:06 Oh, my goodness.
00:07 He's book.
00:08 He just bit us.
00:11 Wow.
00:12 We had seen something a little earlier that we thought
00:14 might have been a tuna coming quite close to the boat.
00:18 And we stopped to have a little lunch.
00:20 And lo and behold, we looked up.
00:22 There was that shark fin.
00:24 Yeah, it was right beside the boat when we started--
00:26 when we first saw it.
00:27 And it was-- you know, it was eye to eye with us.
00:32 But to see that shark come right in, circle our boat
00:35 six or seven times--
00:36 You can't even get him in the hole in the video.
00:39 --the shark was coming around the bow.
00:41 But unexpectedly, it opened its jaws, you can see so clearly.
00:45 And I guess maybe it was just trying
00:47 to plop its teeth in the back of my boat.
00:50 When we saw the shark, we didn't catch a single fish.
00:53 But it was the best day of fishing I ever had.
00:57 Incredible.
00:59 Well, Andrew Jones told us that he had seen whales and dolphins
01:02 before, but never a great white shark until now.
01:06 And that may be because the great white shark is classified
01:10 as endangered under Canada's Species at Risk Act.
01:14 But one shark expert says that the species is rebounding
01:18 and that sightings like this are a good sign
01:20 that the population is growing.
01:23 The expert thinks that the great white shark was just
01:25 Just curious about the boat.