Terrifying Shark Assault On Kayak Off Hawaii Coast Caught On Camera

Off the coast of Hawaii, a man was shark attacked while he was kayak fishing. He managed to record the terrifying incident. In the brief assault, the man was unharmed.

Around noon on Friday, Scott Haraguchi was fishing a mere two miles off the coast of Oahu. He admitted to a nearby TV station that he had left his GoPro camera running after catching a fish.

"It was incredibly bad luck but incredibly good luck to capture it," Haraguchi told KITV.

"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.

The shark can be seen charging directly for the kayak in the Haraguchi video before opening its wide mouth and slamming the small boat.

As the shark collides with the kayak, Haraguchi screams as the shark's head moves closer to him.

With his left foot, Haraguchi successfully kicks the shark, causing it to dive back into the ocean. He subsequently recalled that before realizing he had just had a close brush with a shark, he had initially believed the animal to be a turtle.

"Tiger shark!" Haraguchi yells out in the video after the attack. "Tiger shark rammed me. Holy f-."

It all happened so fast that he didn't realize exactly what happened until he checked out the GoPro footage at home.

"If you asked me to do that again, even without the shark, I don't think I'd have that flexibility," Haraguchi wrote on YouTube, reports CBS News.

He told KITV he assumed the shark was looking for a wounded seal he spotted nearby.

"I'm thinking that the shark actually disabled and wounded the seal ... was waiting for it to die, came back and thought I was the seal and attacked me instead," he told the station.

He thinks the shark might have thought the kayak was wounded prey.

Uncertain if it is the same shark, Marine Corps Base Hawaii officials closed North Beach on Saturday after learning of a sighting of a 20-foot shark and put-up warning signs.

Haraguchi said he is worried about the recent sightings in the interim. He promises to always go fishing with a friend. He claims to be grateful as well. "I realize that life is short, time is short on Earth, so make the most of it," he says.