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Watch this video of a shark ramming into a guy's kayak if you need more reasons to be afraid of swimming this summer

May 15, 2023, 15:34 IST
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A great white shark in Cape Town, South Africa.Tomasz Dutkiewicz/Getty Images
  • Watch a real-life "Jaws" moment when a tiger shark slammed into a fisherman's kayak in Hawaii.
  • The fisherman, Scott Haraguchi, believes the shark mistook his kayak for a dead seal.
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If you hated "Jaws" as a kid, look away — a fisherman in Hawaii caught the moment he almost became lunch for a giant tiger shark, and it's terrifying.

Scott Haraguchi was recording his catches on a GoPro on Saturday when a tiger shark abruptly rammed into his kayak, KITV4 Island Television reported. He was a mile off the coast of Kualoa, around 30 miles north of Honolulu.

Haraguchi left his GoPro on after catching a fish, and ended up filming the nightmare encounter.

The video starts out showing the kayak on peaceful blue waters, before the outline of the shark is seen moving swiftly towards Haraguchi.

The shark then collided into the kayak and appeared to sink its teeth into the side of the boat, drawing a scream from Haraguchi.

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"I heard a whooshing sound that sounded like a boat heading towards me without the motor," Haraguchi told KITV4.

"I looked up and I saw this big brown thing my brain thought it was a turtle but then I got slammed by it and realized that it was a tiger shark," he added.

Haraguchi said he ended up kicking the shark away. He told KITV4 that he later saw a wounded seal in nearby waters, and believes that the shark could have mistaken his kayak for the seal.

However, before you cancel your next beach vacation, shark attacks are not as common as one might think. In 2022, there were only 57 confirmed unprovoked shark attack cases worldwide, according to a report from The Florida Museum of Natural History.

Haraguchi did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment sent outside regular business hours.

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