For many fisherman, there’s a tale of the one that got away. In this case, Scott Haraguchi is glad this one got away.

He was out on his kayak fishing over a mile offshore from Kualoa in Windward Oahu. He happened to accidentally leave his GoPro turned on after catching a fish, KITV reported. That GoPro then captured harrowing moments that happened next.

“I heard a whooshing sound that sounded like a boat heading towards me without the motor and I looked up and I saw this big brown thing. My brain thought it was a turtle, but then I got slammed by it, and realized that it was a tiger shark,” Haraguchi explains.

Haraguchi says he was able to kick the shark away from his kayak and keep fishing. He was running on adrenaline at the time, but it wasn’t until he got home and looked at his video that he realized the magnitude of what had happened.

Dramatic footage captures a shark ramming into an experienced fisherman’s kayak off the coast of Oahu.

The fisherman told ABC affiliate KITV he believes the shark might have mistaken his kayak for a seal. https://t.co/wvyCNaVntd pic.twitter.com/HBpilvwGwo

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He’s not sure what prompted the shark attack, but says shortly after, he noticed what appeared to a wounded seal. He believes the shark may have mistaken his kayak for its wounded prey.

source abc7.com