Great white shark attack leaves tourists screaming in terror as water turns red

18 November 2023 , 15:00

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Great white shark attack leaves tourists screaming in terror as water turns red

Families onboard a tourist boat were left terrorised after they spotted a great white shark just yards from the deck as it sunk its teeth into a helpless mammal.

The great white shark is the world's largest known predatory fish, with 300 teeth. The predator doesn't chew its food, but instead rips its prey into mouth-sized pieces - which are then swallowed whole.

So it's no surprise that families who were on a whale-watching tour boat in were screaming in terror as the water around them turned blood red. Video footage captured by captain Theophilos Tsagkaris in 2019 showed the shark sinking its teeth into a seal near Green's Point Lighthouse in Brunswick, Canada.

A great white shark emerges from the water before killing its prey (Facebook / Jolly Breeze Tall Ship & Jolly Hurricane Jet Boat)

The shark's fin could be seen slicing through the surface of the water as it attacked the helpless mammal. Meanwhile, the unsuspecting whale-watchers can he heard screaming as the drama unfolded just yards from the boat deck.

Tour organiser Jolly Breeze Whale Adventures posted the video on their Facebook page after the attack, on September 10 2009, where it attracted over 26,000 views within hours. Since then, it's had over 184,000 views.

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Marjorie Sorour commented that it was the third time they had witnessed a seal attack in the last six weeks and it always happened at the same spot. "It's fair to say it's their new preferred feeding ground for seals," she said.

The video was reuploaded to the Facebook group in 2022, as a group had witnessed yet another shark attack of a seal. They captioned the video: "First great white shark predation of a seal at the Splitting Knife seal rookery by the VIP Nautica and Captain Randy Russel this morning. This is a 2019 video as no one on board has their cameras ready today unfortunately!"

Senior marine biologist Nicole Leavitt-Kennedy said six main species of sharks reside in the Bay of Fundy and similar sightings are not a total rarity. She told CTV News in an interview the same year: "We have white sharks, basking sharks, blue sharks, porbeagles, threshers and makos. I'm not going to say they're as common as you would see them every time you go out on the ocean - but they are there."

Ariane Sohrabi-Shiraz