Eye-to-eye contact with great white shark was 'just incredible,' Grand Manan man says
CBC
Andrew Jones loves to tell fishing stories and playfully admits they're not always all true, but the Grand Manan, N.B., teacher has video proof he looked a great white shark in the eye Thursday.
"I think it was looking … to see if maybe I'd be maybe a good meal," he told CBC News Friday.
"I guess I probably should have been scared, but we've got a big boat and to see something like that, just marvellous. Just incredible."
Jones, 54, was fishing on his boat, School's Out, with two of his buddies in the Bay of Fundy, off the northern part of the New Brunswick island, between Whale Cove and Wolf islands.
They stopped for lunch and were chatting with the engine off. That's when they spotted the telltale dorsal fin in the clear, blue water.
The shark was "large and it circled our boat several times," said Jones.
"I thought, 'We should take a picture,' and [then] I thought, 'Why am I taking pictures? This is a video situation.'"
He captured the shark on video, just as it was coming around the bow.
"That shark looked us right in the eye as it sailed on by," said Jones, still awestruck.
He estimates the shark was about 10 to 12-feet long, based on the size of his 27-foot boat. "Of course like every good fish story, the fish gets bigger each time."
In the 19-second video, the shark opens its mouth just as it ducks under the dive platform on the boat.
"Oh my … Look, he just bit us," Jones exclaims from behind the camera. "Wow!"
After he stopped recording, the shark rolled "and then, of course, tail-slapped the side of the boat," and disappeared into the roughly 260-foot depths.
Jones suspects the shark was just curious — "just like we are curious of them."
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