{"id":35299,"date":"2025-07-03T12:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T12:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/35299\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T12:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T12:39:11","slug":"san-diego-fishermen-encounter-massive-great-white-shark-in-wild-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/35299\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Fishermen Encounter Massive Great White Shark in Wild Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-306714\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-306714 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Photo-Dustin-Sergent-670x388.jpg\" alt=\"Just a great white shark, casually stoppin' in to say hi. Photo: Dustin Sergent \/\/ YouTube\" width=\"670\" height=\"388\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-306714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just a great white shark, casually stoppin\u2019 in to say hi. Photo: Dustin Sergent \/\/ YouTube<\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1751509025_506_favicon-surf.png\" alt=\"The Inertia\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" class=\"lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinertia.com\/environment\/drone-footage-great-white-shark-australia-lake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">great white shark<\/a> holds a special place in our collective psyche.<\/strong> Of course, no small part of that is due to Jaws, but the massive predators are captivating beasts, even without the aid of Hollywood myth-making.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego-based fly fishing captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dustinsergentflyfishing\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dustin Sergent<\/a> recently experienced firsthand exactly why great whites are the object of so much obsession. A video he recorded on his cell phone and sent to FOX 5 shows an incredibly up close and personal run-in with the most feared predator in the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The encounter occurred off the coast of La Jolla on Saturday, June 28. Sergent told Fox 5 that one of his crew had a blue shark hooked to a line, when a 16 to 18-foot long white shark approached them. As shown in the video, the shark passed by the side of the boat, before being chased away by a sea lion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did not hook or harass the white shark,\u201d he said. \u201cTo top it off, we had a sea lion come in and bully the great white! Very cool thing to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just a great white shark, casually stoppin\u2019 in to say hi. Photo: Dustin Sergent \/\/ YouTube The great&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[15703,159,11539,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-35299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-great-white","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-shark","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114789349097460347","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}