Video shows harrowing encounter as shark attacks kayak in Hawaii.
, the shark is seen coming straight at the kayak and opening its large mouth right before ramming the small watercraft. Haraguchi screams as the shark's head slides along the side of the kayak and closer to him during the collision.
Haraguchi manages to kick the shark with his left foot, and it goes back into the water. He said later he initially thought the animal was a turtle before he realized he just had a close encounter with a shark.He wrote on YouTube that it all happened so fast 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."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.Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
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