Watch: Shark attacks fishing boat 8 times, leaves ‘astronomical’ damage
A fisherman said he was “shaking like an earthquake” when a bull shark suddenly attacked his boat while his group attempted to catch cobia off the Florida coast.
Joshua Jorgensen, the originator of YouTube’s BlacktipH Fishing show based in Palm Beach Gardens, captured aerial footage of what amounted to eight attacks.
In the video, he explained the encounter:
“I was flying my drone at the beach and spotted two huge cobia swimming with a bull shark. Cobia is one of the best tasting fish in the ocean. So I called my buddy Carl, and he raced over to try catch them.
“I was following his boat with my drone and then all of a sudden the shark attacked his engines.”
Jorgensen posted the video to Instagram. (Note: On some servers, you might have to click the link to view.)
“The shark attacked the boat five times, swam away and then came back for more,” Jorgensen said in the video. “In total, the shark attacked Carl’s boat eight times.”
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“We’re thinking, you know, maybe he grabbed the propeller,” Carl said in the video. “We weren’t expecting the damage that we had when we got back to the dock, and it was just astronomical. The whole middle of the engine’s completely ripped out. The trim tab’s broken.
“And I didn’t think a shark could actually shake a boat like that. The boat was shaking like a bag of popcorn. Like literally, I was shaking like an earthquake. I was like, what’s going on? I went back there and I noticed it was a shark doing it. I’m like, are you kidding me? This is like a ride from Universal Studios.”
Some commenters on Instagram suggested that the bull shark was protecting the cobia, inferring that they were his for the eating not the fishermen’s.
Another commenter simply stated, “Bull sharks really have anger management issues.”