Watch as dad-daughter duo reel in fish off NJ coast — but lurking shark had other plans
Mike Cavallo and his 14-year-old daughter, Kaylee, spend time together by jumping on a boat and hitting the deep blue sea.
Together, they run a fishing YouTube channel, M&K Outdoors.
They recently got more than they bargained for when they turned the video recorder on while off the coast of New Jersey.
“This was definitely a once-in-a-lifetime thing,” Cavello told WPVI. “It was a really cool experience.”
While having a “banner day” of fishing, pulling in more than 30 sea bass, most of which Kaylee caught, Cavello spotted an underwater thief trying to get a piece of the fish action.
About four minutes and 30 seconds into the nearly eight-minute video posted June 4, Cavello is reeling in a fish when something follows it to the surface.
“I got that on video!” Cavello is heard yelling.
John Chisholm, shark researcher and adjunct scientist at the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium, said the animal in the video was a juvenile great white shark about 8 feet long, the Asbury Park Press reported.
“This is the time of year we start seeing increased activity in the mid-Atlantic area as they migrate north,” Chisholm told the outlet.
Cavello told WPVI that he and his daughter were surprised by the shark popping out of the water, but they weren’t scared. He said his daughter is “very into sharks,” and the two of them track the aquatic predators as they move along the Jersey Shore.
“I was just more excited than anything. Nobody would have believed me if I wasn’t rolling,” Cavello told WPVI. “Within five minutes of me turning the camera on, the shark showed up. The stars aligned.”
The shark was spotted off Point Pleasant Beach, about 50 miles south of New York City.
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