lt's so obvious. He just wants to be the big fish in the small pond.

i'm from mass.and I remember this shark. it happened a few yrs ago. a bad storm with an unusually high tide opened up this salt pond which let the shark in, then he was trapped there for about week until scientist could manage to get him out. it was down at the cape in falmouth, ironically right across the bay from woodshole oceanicraphic institute. they finally coaxed him out without harm and he's probably gobbling up seals to this day.

"Mommy, we're gonna go swim in the pond" "Okay kids, now you be careful" "Haha mom...it's a pond, it's not like there's great white sharks or anything"....

Wow, look at how majestically it glides through the water barely causing a ripple in the still pond.

Famous last words.. "I think I can ride that"....

Bullsharks are not as torpedo shaped nor do they have pointed snouts. That is a juvenile great white. end of story.

"You're gonna need a bigger pond." Sorry, I just couldn't resist.

Shark turn a wrong turn at Albuquerque.

bull sharks have a more squared off nose like the tiger shark, and a generally shorter, more stout body. look at this vid closely, notice the pointed nose. also check out part 2 for an underwater viewpoint, it is most definitely a great white.

Pond? Are you sure. How the hell does a shark get in a pond?

This is not brackish or fresh water. It's so close to open water you would be surprised. Check out Part two. The link is in the description.

one does not simply watch a great white pass them and not shit bricks

For those who appear to be doubting what species of shark this is, the link for 'part 2' gives a much better look at the shark. It is, indeed, a great white.

exactly why my ass stays on land where it belongs

GW, ID'D and tagged. There a is no river or stream associated with the location the shark was. it's connected to open water. Merely an opening along the shore where saltwater comes in and forms what looks like a pond. In the NE we call it a salt pond.

I was there the first day this shark was spotted in the pond, we drove down there and spent hours watching it, and several times it surfaced next to our boat just like in this video. The second day we motored down and spent another couple of hours down there working with fisheries and volunteers trying to drive the shark out of this inlet. By noon of the second day it was a total madhouse, dozens of boats trying to gain access, CG limited access to the area.

Great footage.

you know those moments when you're lost and you start to drive slow and say to yourself "I'm pretty sure I was suppose to take the other left." probably what's going on with this shark as he swims slowly.

It says SALT POND

Well some ponds are fed by a stream. I didn't make up the term "salt pond" Some say tidal pond.

A salt pond is a North East term for a lagoon or estuary

Gene-Yes it is a great white that happened to get trapped in the river. It was later led back to sea by fisherman.

Great white sharks HAVE occasionally swum up rivers, although not very often. In 1915 three of them were caught in a river in New Jersey (near Sandy Hook) following a rash of fatal shark attacks along the Jersey shore. None of the sharks caught were found to have killed and eaten people, but nonetheless it proves great whites DO sometimes swim up rivers.

I might say sub adult. That's getting pretty big, might be surpassing the juvenile stage. Another 2 years in the ocean and it will be listening to that music, dun unt dun unt dun unt.

I love all the experts. I am in awe to be surrounded by such great knowledge.

This is some of the most amazing footage. the clear water makes it look awesome.

Excellent footage. The shape of the dorsal fin certainly seems to be more like that of a Great White than a Bull (Bull's tend to round off more at the top). Also, in the dying seconds of the video, it appears as if you can see the full tail under the water as the shark swims by. If it's not the light playing tricks, the upper and lower lobes seem fairly symmetrical, once more pointing towards a Great White. Bull's have significantly longer upper lobes.

its amazing how much speed they can achive while moving their tail soo little.

This is a totally awesome piece of footage, as was your other clip with the underwater view. What a beautiful creature this is. I'm totally jealous of you for getting that up-close-and-personal moment in such a lovely spot too. Seeing one of those in person in the water has always been at the top of my bucketlist even though I'm allergic to the plankton in sea water. Totally nature in one of it's great moments captured on camera. Kudos to you, sir.

i was there visiting my aunt when this happened, it was bad ass to see such a huge animal up close

It is a Great White shark. The shape of the head, dorsal fin, and tail fin all match.

Not a year-rounder but have been summering in The Cape my entire life 30+ years...if you have large seal populations, you've got Greats, and that's def. one

That's amazing. You were lucky to catch such a rare moment. :)

Shark: i own this pond stay away.. STAY AWAY!!!

"Your" just about as cute as could be.

I love how watching youtube videos of fish seems to make everyone a self-proclaimed ichthyologist.

@jrepnin speaking of that local it's amazing how many sharks teeth can be located in the fresh water creek beds that are well inland. they are easy to find but they are fossils. that area was ocean floor (if I'm correct in the time) 75 million years ago. sharks teeth are easiest to find but there are fossils of other marine animals as well.

I love watching sharks just cruise through water with such little effort.

It's a DAMN-I'm-stuck-in-a-pond shark.

"hold my beer for me..."

The entire time I was waiting for something to pop out at me. But this is fascinating nonetheless - it's rare to be able to glimpse something like this in the wild.

Michaels in the pond!!!

So glad that the Falmouth County stepped in to help this majestic animal. Makes me have faith in humanity!

It is definitely real. The shark was carried into the salt pond during an extreme high tide in stormy weather. She could not figure out how to escape, and eventually she had to be guided out! Re: fresh water, you've got the wrong shark. Lake Nicaragua sharks, Zambezi sharks, etc- all bull sharks. They can happily go back and forth from salt to fresh water, or stay in either one.

Wow! There is intelligent life form on youtube. Thank you very much for your comment. It seems so simple yet it slips through the mental grasp of so many. They probably prefered books with lots of pictures.

This wasn't fresh water, this was a salt pond as it says in the description. The White likely wouldn't be able to live there for long, but he would certainly be able to do it for a while.

yup, deffinetly a white, the caudal fin is equal on both sides, thats the big giveaway

i would be like,"hell, you only live once i'm going swimming"

I used to live all around, and I saw one Great White by Goodland Florida!!!!! It is still salt water, but the start of Everglades (I used to live in Miami Beach... It was amazing to see a 14 foot shark in an 8 foot deep crystal clear water...

Thanks for all of that, Aquaman!

It looks so peaceful!

Bro you truly have sum good comebacks

i have just witnessed youtube gold.

Beautiful so Stealthy!, Sharks are Magnificent Creatures!!!

Awesome. So close and so clear.

Beautifully graceful.

shit, thats a great white shark

I was just about to advise that you didn't have a Great White there, but.... you have a Great White there!!!! bad ass!

hahah! mint one-liner, that last sentence!!! :))

i had swim in lakes at night not anymore after seeing this :)

Seriously, folks, check out the link. Very cool story! And yes, it is a Great White. It found its way into a salt water estuary, and then was coaxed and guided back out to sea by local fisherman and marine biologists.

Defo great white,and the salt pond is part of a flood plain and as the waters retreat it got caught threre ,same as the one of New York in about 1918 wich killed. 5 or 6 in two days it was what inspired the jaws movie

that's what confidence looks like.

shark must be thinking to himself " i is lost... lol"

it sure looks like one

Good job I can't believe you found that thing in a pond a great white awesome

sorry, I was there. This is a great white. If you were a "shark biologist" you would probably know about the first white sharks to be found in the Atlantic here in Chatham, Cape Cod and you would most likely spell "prey" correctly. Also, the sandbar shark is not found everywhere in the world

Excellent observation. Although I was never a fan of huge slits.

Next to last thing you'd expect in shallow water like that. Can you imaging casually paddling down that river in a kayak and seeing that next to you? I'd fill my shorts like a jelly donut I would.

Not unless your name is Gilligan and your marooned after a 3 hour tour. That lagoon they were always talking about is what we in the North East call a salt pond.

Wow, great vid!

Shark : Hey Hey You, Pull My Tail. Man : Ok? Shark : RAAAAWR

SALT POND!

You are intelligent enough, not to extrapolate anything more than what has been stated, or what is shown in the video. Thank you. So you know, a salt pond is nothing more than a regional term for a lagoon or estuary. It's not literally a pond.

Absolutely gorgeous animal.

Bull Sharks, as you know, can travel hundreds of miles up rivers. Saltys as well. This is a Great White though, and in a salt water pond, it wouldn't live long in a fresh water.

in n.z as kids we were taught never to swim in estuarys (salt rivers conected to the ocean) as thats the breeding ground for sharks... yet here in a.u i see parents with their kids and toddlers swimming in estuarys as they think it safer than the surf beaches, give me the shivers!

finally i know what my senior pranks gonna be!! nobody go swimmin on may 26th :p

I love that whenever they aren't attacking prey, they are just cruisin' along like "yeeeahhh bitch, can't touch this".

it was shallow, and that was the problem the shark had, because it was so shallow, the shark couldn't find its way out, and was there for two weeks. this happened in 04. marine fisheries fonally kept spraying it with water from a boat to guide it out.

Yea.. it does look like a GWS... They are known to go into rivers chasing food. Another fact.... there is so much we do not know about these sharks... such as where 50% of the year .... where they go to give birth and a lot of other things. Awesome video!

That's an amazing experience, if you have any video I'd love to see it posted up here on youtube. We just don't get this kind of action is Missouri. Maybe a deer stuck on some river ice. And we once had a cop shoot at a fake concrete alligator a farmer stuck in a pond. But that's about the extent of our exciting events.

That's very cool. Thanks for posting. Did you get in any of the photos on the mass.gov site?

I would never take a swim in salt water ponds again, its scary!

we do have mako sharks in mass too.. they look a lot like great white in shape but they are smaller and more common

Um....JAWS 6 WAITING TO HAPPEN!

lulz speaking of jaws this reminds me of the scene where he goes into that pond

that is so beautiful

"I'm just gonna casually go through this lake here, no one can see me."

measured at 14 feet

hey Betty i reckon that that's one of them there sharks i hear so much about on that TV box

IM from Rhode Island and you are right about bull sharks not coming that far up but in all fairness a bull shark has the ability to make it as far. They have recorded Bull Sharks as far as 2800 miles up the mississippi.

What was it about "salt pond" that slipped through the cracks of your mind?

For everyone who thinks this is a young shark, click the link in the description and go to the mass.gov site. Look at the still photos of this thing next to a boat. It's pretty big. Also for everyone who thinks this is a river or brackish water, again click the link, look at the pics and you will see how close this actually is to open water.

You watched a short video and gave a lesson on stuff you cannot know by watching the vid. You implied you had knowledge of this. I supplied a link in the description to the source of this. If people would check that out, no one would have to guess anything, all the info is there.

wow that is cool

awesome video thanks for the links too I like how this ones dorsal fin is a good example of how similar the dorsals are too basking sharks as some experts say there quite different but I tend to dissagree I think that the more mature female whites are more shaped like an "A" on the dorsal .

def great white, look at the snout shape

@imnotrance I also noticed it was very still as it swam, not like many other sharks

actually, bull sharks are not the only sharks that can do that, they are just the most prevalent. Generally, white sharks avoid freshwater, but there are historical records showing them in there.