The great white shark is a curious animal, but you probably won’t know if it’s checking you out. Photo: YouTube//Screenshot
It’s strange to think about, but if you spend much time at all in the waters off the coast of Southern California, there’s a very good chance you’ve been close to a great white shark without ever knowing about it. In this video, Carlos Gauna, the shark expert who runs The Malibu Artist YouTube channel, dives into his footage bank and plucks out some of the “most hair raising white shark encounters” he filmed over the course of the summer.
White sharks, as you likely know, are curious creatures. They’re stealthy, too, and when they’re interested in something they frequently try and steal a peek from the back. That is fairly obvious in most of the encounters you see here.
One interaction stands out, because in Gauna’s drone flights he’s become familiar with quite a few different sharks.
“When a group of swimmers is enjoying their day, a shark with a reputation for getting close to humans comes extremely close to the swimmers,” he wrote. “It is a shark I am familiar with, featured in a previous video, this shark has an injury that makes you wonder if an injured shark is more likely to approach humans.”
