Great White Shark Accident ★★★★★

If you are interested in using or licencing this footage please feel free to contact me by email patrick.sean.walsh at gmail.com A 2 ton, 15 foot Great White barrels into my cage and brakes through the bars... Patrick Wals...

If you are interested in using or licencing this footage please feel free to contact me by email patrick.sean.walsh at gmail.com A 2 ton, 15 foot Great White barrels into my cage and brakes through the bars... Patrick Walsh - Filming Paul Damgaard - Avoiding Sharks Mouth CC - The Shark On November 4th we had an incident that was pretty darned exciting. CC, or Cut Caudal, one of our regular sharks, accidentally ran into one of the main cages on the Searcher. CC came up nearly vertical about 20 feet away from the cage and grabbed one of the hang baits, which he is known to do on a regular basis. However, on this particular day he swam right into the portside cages viewing window. As CC took the bait he instinctively rolled his eyes back, couldnt see where he was going and accidentally swam directly into the viewing window. CCs entire head went inside the cage and he was stopped just short of his pectoral fins. Well, we all know that white sharks have no reverse and CC was too far in to turn around. He tried to turn, but he could not quite get his snout to clear the corner. He rolled on his side and began to thrash up and down trying to free himself. Being a rather large white shark he just ended up making the opening bigger by simply removing the front of the cage so he could get out of the cage. CC literally removed all the lower front vertical bars and the horizontal bar that connects all of the vertical bars to the main frame of the front cage panel and then swam