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Watch: Huge shark attacks startled angler’s kayak off Oahu

A Hawaii angler on Friday survived a harrowing encounter with a large shark that attacked his kayak as he fished off Oahu. The frightening moment was caught on video.

A Hawaii angler on Friday survived a harrowing encounter with a large shark that attacked his kayak as he fished off Oahu.

Scott Haraguchi captured the dramatic incident with a Go Pro video camera that was still running after he had landed a fish. (The footage is posted below.)

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Viewers can see the shark materialize off the bow a moment before it slams and bites the side of the kayak. Haraguchi kicks at the predator and immediately screams “Tiger shark!” as a warning to his nearby fishing companion.

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The encounter occurred off Kualoa in Windward Oahu, not far from where a large tiger shark was spotted the next day.

Haraguchi, who was not injured, explained via YouTube that he heard a “whooshing” sound just before he saw the shark. “I looked up and saw a wide brown thing on the side of the kayak,” he recalled. “I thought it was a turtle at first.”

Tiger sharks, which can measure nearly 20 feet, commonly prey on green sea turtles.

But according to KITV 4, Haraguchi spotted an injured seal shortly after the shark attacked his kayak. He theorized that the shark mistook the kayak for the seal.

Angler reels in (and wrestles with) potential record octopus

A Hawaii angler appears to have shattered a state record set 22 years ago by his brother with the catch of a nearly 26 pound octopus.

A Hawaii angler appears to have shattered a state record, set 22 years ago by his brother, with the catch of a nearly 26-pound octopus.

Michael Matsunaga, 69, of Wahiawa, reeled the giant mollusk from a depth of 400 feet on Aug. 30. Once the slithery creature was aboard the boat, however, Matsunaga struggled to keep it there.

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“I finally got him in the cooler, and then I had to sit on the cooler because he was kind of lifting me up,” Matsunaga told Hawaii News Now.

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The octopus, caught off Turtle Bay on Oahu’s North Shore, weighed 25.95 pounds on a certified scale at Hanapaa Fishing.

The existing record, set by Stewart Matsunaga, stands at 19.01 pounds. Stewart reeled that octopus from a depth of 250 feet off Kaena Point, Oahu, in 2000.

Michael Matsunaga, now with bragging rights, presumably has submitted a record application with the state.

Asked what he would do with his catch, he told Hawaii News Now that he planned to eat the octopus after boiling it in beer “one leg at a time.”

–Image courtesy of Hanapaa Fishing