Great white jumps out of water to steal fisherman's bass
A charter fishing boat captured the amazing moment a huge great white shark jumped out of the water to steal a striped bass right off one of his client's lines.
The incident marked the second time that Captain Hap Farrell's boat, the Stunmai II, had a brush with a great white on Saturday.
Farrell records each of his trips with a Canon camera, and as a woman was reeling in a striped bass during his morning outing, a 12-foot great white appeared out of nowhere and chomped the fish in half - leaving only the head on the line.
A charter fishing boat captain captured the moment a great white shark jumped out of the water to steal a striped bass off the line of one of his clients
The incident happened Saturday afternoon, as Captain Hap Farrell's boat was fishing in Cape Cod Bay
Captain Farrell estimates that the shark was about nine feet long
Farrell says it's the first time that he has caught a great white shark breaching on camera
The shark chomped the striped bass in half, leaving only the fish's head on the line
But the real action happened when he took his second group out in the afternoon.
A father and his adult son were reeling in a striped bass when another nine-foot great white locked in on their kill.
The son tried to reel in the fish before the shark could snag it, causing the predator to fully jump out of the water to yank it away.
'He went way up in the air,' one of the fishermen says in the video.
Again, the fisherman were left with the beheaded remains of the fish.
Earlier in the day, during his first fishing trip, another great white shark stole a fish off one of his client's lines
Farrell estimates that the first shark of the day was larger, about 12 feet long
Again, the shark left just the disembodied head of the fish on the line
After the shark stole their fish, the first fishing group cheered in amazement
Farrell said it was far from the first time that he's seen a great white shark off Massachusetts. In fact, he estimates that there have been about seven sharks hunting in Cape Cod Bay recently.
But it was the first time that he was able to catch a breaching great white on camera. And he says that it's rare to have two such run-ins in one day.
'I didn't know it was going to happen, it just happened - the people thought it was great,' he told the Boston Herald.
Farrell posted the video of his jaws-filled back-to-back fishing trips on Facebook, and the clip has been viewed more than 134,000 times.
There have been more than 40 shark sightings off Cape Cod this summer. On Friday, two beaches in Chatham were closed because of shark sightings.