This was just full-on intestines floating, the gnarliest things you could see were the giant shark jaws had latched into the sides of the sea lion and then ripped out a bite. "It was for sure the most gory thing I've ever seen in my life. The same goes for Coopersmith, who's seen his share of cool stuff in nature as a diver, spear fishermen and cast member on season 8 of Bravo's "Below Deck." But he said his front-row seat to this shark's feast was by far the coolest thing he's seen out on the water. Hougie said he's seen orcas play catch with porpoise - Whales essentially beat them into submission with their tales and fins, sometimes launching them dozens of feet in the air. Austin LaBanc, a 33-year-old otolaryngologist resident at Balboa Park Naval Hospital, has been going in the water regularly off Torrey Pines for decades, "I was just sitting back waiting for that thing to come back from the shadows and take another bite out of the sea lion, and every time I was like, 'Holy sh- here it comes! Here it is! Oh my goodness! Here it is! Boom!'"ĭr. If you don't sit back and enjoy it, that moment's going to - a 20-minute moment with that shark is going to go away pretty quick," he said. "When we catch 200-pound tuna, it's like you waited all day and finally here it is. After taking a couple of videos of the shark, Hougie said he made sure to try and take it all in. Hougie owns California Sportfishing Company but was hired to captain the Triton for this charter trip. "That was the first time I've really been aware of how big the jaws are of a shark," Hougie said. Granted, I wouldn't want to be in the water with it, but watching it was really beautiful," environmental educator Sustainable Shane said. "Jaws makes us afraid of sharks, Shark Week makes us afraid of sharks. Why There May Be More Sharks Off San Diego's Coast This Year They spent about a half-hour watching nature take its course, a scene one client described as beautiful and peaceful. The King Triton was about 14 miles off the coast of Mission Bay on hour 5 or 6 of their half-day charter. "OOOOHHHHHH!" belted a chorus of fishermen. Just as he was finishing his thought, the shark poked its snout out of the water and chomped down on the carcass once again. "It's right behind it! Look at the size of that thing, dude!" Hougie shouted. Seconds later, there was even less of it to look at. The floating carcass was big and meaty but appeared to be missing its head and tail, making identification a challenge. Just feet away now, the shark was submerged. Oh my - That's the biggest one I've seen out here, for sure," he said, recording his approach on his cell phone. "Get me right over it," Hougie ordered to somebody at the helm. The carcass was being devoured by a white shark one very large bite at a time. The crimson pool staining the deep blue ocean was the blood of a seal or sea lion, or half of one.
When deckhand Ethan Hougie, perched high on the King Triton's tuna tower, spotted some wrestling and a pool of perfect crimson growing in the distance, he directed the boat towards it.Īs he approached, he realized they were late for lunch. Sportfishing crews are taught to look out for commotion in the open water: diving birds, splashing fins or any other disturbances in the gentle lapping of ocean currents. But the coolest part of a recent angling excursion for a group of San Diego sons and fathers was their run-in with a fish they wouldn't dare to try and catch: a great white shark. That's about all you can ask for on a 12-hour sportfishing charter.
(Footage courtesy of Ethan Hougie with the California Sportfishing Company).īiting tuna and flowing beer. A group of sport fishermen angling for tuna off the coast of San Diego last week had front-row seats to see a great white shark eating its lunch.
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