Florida shark attack: Drone footage shows bull shark taking on a fishing boat
PALM BEACH, FLORIDA: A fisherman who was flying a drone, recently captured a horrifying moment when a ferocious bull shark shook a boat "like a bag of popcorn” by violently attacking it around eight times. Josh Jorgensen, who produces videos for the popular BlacktipH Fishing YouTube channel, took to his Instagram earlier this week to share aerial footage showing a bull shark repeatedly attacking his friend Carl Torresson's boat off the Palm Beach coast.
"I was flying my drone at the beach and spotted two huge cobia swimming with a bull shark. Cobia is one of the best-tasting fish in the ocean. So, I called my buddy Carl, and he raced over to try to catch them,” Jorgensen said in the video. In the footage, two large cobia swimming were seen swimming in crystal, clear, aqua waters with a menacing bull shark hovering around them. The drone then sharply pans to Torressons' fishing boat and shows people tossing their hooks into the water just moments before the creature attacks the vessel. "I was following his boat with my drone, and then, all of a sudden, the shark attacked his engines," Jorgensen said.
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'The boat was shaking like a bag of popcorn'
The shark can be seen thrashing about in the water, lunging for the boat's stern, and smashing into the outboard engines. The boat was apparently rocked with every chomp of the muscular animal's massive teeth. Jorgensen said the shark took direct aim at the vessel total of five times before swimming off and then making an even more determined return to attack three more times. "I didn’t think a shark could actually shake a boat like that," Torresson said in the video, adding "The boat was shaking like a bag of popcorn. Like, literally, I was shaking like an earthquake. I was like, ‘What’s going on?’ I went back there, and I noticed it was a shark doing it. I’m like, ‘Are you kidding me?’ This is like a ride from Universal Studios."
After the boat arrived back at the dock, Torresson inspected the vessel to discover the extent of damage the shark dealt his engines. “We’re thinking, you know, maybe he grabbed the propeller,” he said. “We weren’t expecting the damage that we had when we got back to the dock, and it was just astronomical. The whole middle of the engine’s completely ripped out. The trim tab’s broken." The boat was not ruined beyond repair but the two engines were completely “salvaged." "Carl had to buy new parts for it,” Jorgensen wrote. Bull sharks are medium-sized predatory sharks that may reach lengths of 7 to 11 feet and weights 200 to 500 pounds. They derive their name from their short, blunt snouts and from the habit of head-butting victims before an attack.
Similar incident
This video came just a few days after another footage showed a shark viciously attacking a fisherman and pulling him overboard into the murky waters of Everglades National Park in Florida. The horrifying incident happened when the victim tried to put his hand in the water despite his friends cautioning him of the dangers. As the victim leaned over to reach the shallow water, a partially hidden shark was seen leaping out of the water and chomping into him, dragging him head-first into the water. Gratefully, the fisherman was frantically brought back on the boat but his hand was brutally injured. The National Park Service at that time noted that the man was then airlifted to Jackson South Medical Center by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel.