Watch as great white shark intercepts angler’s huge catch in Australia. ‘What a jerk’
Audiences watching Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” know a shark is coming by the infamous “duh dun duh dun” theme song. In reality, these massive sea creatures appear without an entrance song — as an angler in Australia recently learned the hard way.
Izzy Sesto was reeling in a massive tuna when a great white shark took hold of her catch and chomped its tail off, a video posted to her Facebook on Oct. 3 shows.
“It’s a big white,” someone yelled in the video. “There’s a big great white!”
The video shows Sesto pulling the huge fish aboard with the help of other boaters.
“I still got it! I still got it!” Sesto shouted as the tuna flopped onto the deck of the boat. “Oh my heart’s kinda broken but pretty cool. I’m happy but I’m sad like I don’t know what to feel.”
Sesto is an avid fisher, according to her social media. But despite years of trying, she had yet to catch a “barrel” — a tuna weighing more than about 200 pounds — until her recent catch off of Cape Jaffa, she told 9News.
“This big great white’s come bit half my tuna off, and it’s my first tuna. I’ve been targeting them for years,” Sesto said in the video she shared. “What a jerk.”
After munching on the tuna tail, the great white circled the boat and starting biting at the boat’s motor, the video shows.
“That is the most amazing experience of my life,” Sesto said in the video.
“Coolest video ever!” one person commented on Sesto’s video.
“What a Rad experience,” another person wrote.
“I would have died!” a third person said.
Cape Jaffa is in Southern Australia, about 340 miles west of Melbourne.
This story was originally published October 5, 2023 at 3:25 PM with the headline "Watch as great white shark intercepts angler’s huge catch in Australia. ‘What a jerk’."
