Shocking tape captures first EVER great white attack at busy holiday

He told local news site SFGate: “It definitely looks like a white shark, about eight to ten feet, from the phone video sent to us”.

A camera aboard a ferry docked at Alcatraz Island captured the moment a great white shark breached the surface of the water to catch a seal.

However, the risk of a shark attacking a swimmer is considered extremely low. Tourists said they were thrilled seeing the unexpected sideshow.

According to David McGuire, the director of the Shark Stewards group based in San Francisco and a research associate at the California Academy of Sciences, “This is the first recorded predation event by a white shark I’m aware of in the San Francisco Bay”.

He said almost 300 great white sharks are reported near the Bay Area’s coastline during Sharktober.

McGuire estimated the shark seen in the videos was 8 to 10 feet long.

The stunning images of the Great White sharks were taken in the Pacific Ocean near Guadalupe Island, Mexico. “The tourists were pretty excited”. They have been sighted this year in Monterey Bay and in a few other places off the coast of San Francisco, and they come to the Farallon Islands around September-October to feed every year.

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The new video appears to show the early stages of the shark going after its lunch. This year in particular, possibly due to the El Niño, there has been noticeable uptick of great white sightings in and around Monterey Bay and off San Francisco, but so far nothing like this. “Some of the fishing camps in Baja, the small fishing villages in the Sea of Cortés, that used to have white sharks are now empty”.