With today’s sophisticated Great White Shark tagging and tracking, we now know that Great White Sharks do in fact visit the coast of Florida…
In fact, scientists have seen Great White Sharks even come up into the Gulf of Mexic0 (previously thought to be too warm for the cold-water loving Great White).
And this week, Gabriel Smeby and Derrick Keeny of Dark Side Sharkers proved without a doubt that Great White Sharks are off of the west coast of Florida.
Great White Shark Caught on Florida Beach
At some undisclosed beach off of the West Coast of Florida, the Dark Side Sharkers reeled in the first ever great white shark caught on a Florida beach.
This is only the 4th Great White Shark landed from a beach in the entire US.
Check out all of the pics below of this first ever Great White Shark caught on a Florida beach.
This was a pretty wild (and rare) shark feeding frenzy that occurred on the beaches of North Carolina of all places.
According to the guys that took the footage, this was of off of Cape Lookout National Park and the 100 or so sharks where feeding on a huge school of bluefish.
As you can see from the video, a few of the sharks accidentally beached themselves temporarily as they were so caught up in the shark feeding frenzy.
Let me tell you, a 13’7 Hammerhead is a HUGE shark, with massive force and power…
So when our friend Andrew over at Big Bully Outdoors sent us his video of catching this Monster Hammerhead off of the beach at Boca Grande, Florida, we stopped what we were doing to check it out…
And once we saw this awesome video, we couldn’t help but share it with you (and we hope that you will share it with your friends)…
The only thing we don’t know is how long it took Andrew to land this big boy (Andrew, feel free to comment below).
You can see from the video that Andrew had the shark on while the sun was about to set, and it was definitely dark by the time this huge hammerhead was landed on the beach at Boca Grande.
Great job from start to finish to the release Andrew!
This is how you catch a hammerhead shark from land!
Andrew of Big Bully Outdoors = Salt Strong
P.S. – Make sure to go check out Big Bully Outdoors with Andrew and Mallory here.
If you have ever fought a shark on the line, then you know how hard they can fight.
Well just imagine trying to bring in a 400 pound Bull Shark…while standing up!
In this video, Josh Jorgensen (aka BlacktipH), takes on a 400 pound bull shark while Captain Ben Chancey (the man behind Chew on This) does the filming and commentary.
This big shark jigging video was sent in to us by Jean Paul Massoud.
And in this video, Jean Paul takes on a big shark in a very small boat, out in the Indian Ocean.
After a grueling fight, the thresher shark finally makes an appearance, gets halfway into the boat, and then with one last burst of energy, breaks free and back into the depths of the Indian Ocean…
You have probably heard how fast Mako Sharks are, right?
But I bet you haven’t seen one coming out of the blue ocean at you like this!
Check out the slo-mo jaws at the 1:38 mark!
What’s funny is this Mako just won’t give up until all of the baits are gone.
He makes pass after pass to “steal” and pluck off every live bait on the dredge.
Of course the anglers on board have no idea this is going on under them, and I bet when they pulled up the dredge to see that all of the baits were gone, they were giddy about checking out what the GoPro captured.
Just imagine going out deep sea fishing with your dad, hoping to catch a few nice red snapper, and all of a sudden you hook into something big…
This “something big mystery fish” seems to be pulling out line faster than any red snapper you have ever caught, it doesn’t feel like a grouper, and all you know is that it is something big.
After a long fight, you see the leader coming up out of the water…
You see the outline of the fish…
It appears to be around 4 feet long kind of looks like a shark…
And then as you pull this shark-like creature out of the water to get a closer look you see this crazy looking creature below…
(note: the use of red snapper was only for the purpose of the story. we realize that these guys weren’t fishing for snapper in 2,000 ft in Australia)
The very rare Goblin Shark
So Just What Is a Goblin Shark?
Goblin sharks usually reside around 3,000 – 4,000 feet below the surface (near the floor of the ocean), making it very tough for researches, scientists, or even fishermen to ever study them or come in contact with them.
The small number that have ever been caught are usually caught in deep nets, or randomly by fishermen that are fishing in very deep water going after deep diving fish such as swordfish.
These Goblin sharks are also considered one of the closest things to the prehistoric dinosaur as they haven’t evolved or changed in almost 125 million years!
Goblin sharks are also known as “Vampire Sharks” as they prefer to hang out in the deep, dark, depths of the ocean and avoid sunlight at all costs (hence their odd looking pink hue).
A cool fact is that this pinkish-red color actually helps them in terms of camouflage, as red actually appears black down in the depths of the ocean.
These Goblin sharks can grow upwards of 12 feet long, but this one was only 4 feet, and scientists in Australia estimate this shark to be 3-4 years old.
This Goblin shark will remain at the Australian Museum in Sydney for further tests to see what scientists can learn about this odd Goblin.
Great job Mike and Lochlainn Kelly!
You guys are certainly Salt Strong!
To watch a brief video that will teach you even more about Goblin Sharks, check this out below!
And don’t forget to share this with your friends to be the first to teach them about this very rare shark.
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Have you ever seen one of these Megamouth sharks before?
Chances are that most of you haven’t, as they are so rare that only 60 megamouth sharks have ever been documented in history.
These odd looking sharks have a “mega” large mouth and head, it has 50 rows of small teeth, can grow upwards of 18 feet (one of the largest sharks in the world), and usually don’t come near shore (they stay deep in depths of the ocean).
In fact, due to the fact that a megamouth shark had not been seen in so long, some scientists considered the megamouth to be extinct.
But unless this megamouth shark that showed up in the Philippines was the very last one of its kind, it still looks promising that more of these odd looking sharks are still out there.
