Heart-pounding video shows fisherman leaping into ocean to save great white shark

Wild video captured the infinitesimal a young fisherman plunged into pounding Southern California surf to wrestle a thrashing shark and escaped it from his sportfishing line.

Kevin Phan, 20, was reportedly sportfishing astatine astir 9 a.m. section clip Wednesday connected Hermosa Beach, erstwhile the oversea canine caught his enactment from a adjacent pier.

In a video captured by beach-goers, Phan was seen rushing to the shoreline to untangle the flailing predator.

He appeared to beryllium dangerously adjacent arsenic helium attempted to chopped the enactment from the shark's mouth.

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Video showed a 20-year-old fisherman rushing into the h2o to rescue a stranded large achromatic shark disconnected the California coast. (Alexandra Garry via Storyful)

Witnesses could beryllium heard successful the inheritance speculating whether the shark was inactive alive.

After a fig of tumbles done the incoming crashing waves, Phan grabbed ahold of the shark's process and fearlessly guided it backmost into the ocean, prompting cheers from onlookers.

"I saw a clump radical implicit there, and I ran down determination similar there’s thing going on," witnesser Stephen Copeland told section outlet KTLA. "He was successful his underwear… helium said that was the 2nd 1 of the day."

A large achromatic shark swims successful the waters disconnected of California. (Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein bild)

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Phan reportedly suffered insignificant cuts and scrapes, but was different unharmed, according to the outlet.

Other fishermen astatine the pier said they whitethorn debar the casting spot owed to an summation successful shark sightings.

Great White Shark (Carcharodon Carcharias) connected the Guadalupe Island. (Dave Fleetham/Design Pics Editorial)

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"Don’t cognize if I’m gonna beryllium coming present arsenic often due to the fact that of that," George Lam told the quality station. "Mostly conscionable present for smaller fish, thing get a speedy bite."

Studies by the California State University astatine Long Beach showed juvenile large achromatic sharks mostly airs a debased hazard to humans astatine beaches.

However, they often stitchery adjacent the enactment to provender connected tiny fish.