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A Southern California filmmaker got thescare of a lifetimewhen agreat white sharksuddenly lunged at one of his cameras and chomped down on it during a recent excursion off the coast.
Carlos Gauna, known on YouTube as The Malibu Artist, was out filming in late April when the terrifying close encounter unfolded underwater, according toKTLA.
“I’ve been around them a lot,” Gauna told the outlet. “They don’t normally come at you like that.”
Gauna, who frequently documents great whites from a kayak with several cameras and a drone, captured theshocking momentfrom multiple angles.
“It depends on the day, but I typically like to have three cameras going, an aerial drone, and a couple cameras on the kayak and maybe even one on my person sometimes,” he explained.
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Video from the encounter shows thegiant predatordarting straight toward the camera before violently clamping down on it underwater.
Moments before the bite, Gauna said he had temporarily lost communication with the friend operating the overhead drone, leaving him unsure where exactly the shark was circling beneath the surface.
“Not knowing where the shark is, and I look back, and theshadow of the sharkis right there,” he recalled. “By the time I got comms with him, all I can hear is my buddy yelling, ‘He got the camera! He got the camera!’”
Source: California Post – Breaking California News, Photos & Videos
