AFTER HIS CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH A GREAT WHITE SHARK OFF HAWAII ISLAND. BRYCE MOORE HAS DETAILS ON A STORY YOU'LL ONLY SEE ON KHON2. UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHER DERON VERBECK TELLS ME, HE WAS DIVING THIS MORNING OFF KEAHOLE POINT WHEN HE THOUGHT HE SAW A SCHOOL OF ULUA. BUT SOMETHING WAS OFF, AND THE SIZE AND SHAPE MADE HIM THINK OF A TIGER SHARK. DERON VERBECK, UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHER: "I KEPT LOOKING AT THE HEAD, I'M LIKE, THAT IS NOT A TIGER SHARK, AND IT GOT CLOSER AND CLOSER… DERON VERBECK, UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHER: "IT JUST KEPT GETTING BIGGER AND BIGGER AND BIGGER AND WAS LIKE, THAT IS FOR SURE 100 PERCENT A GREAT WHITE." THE BEAST, WHICH VERBECK SAYS WAS OVER 15 FEET, WASN'T BEHAVING IN A THREATENING WAY.
SO HE STUCK AROUND. DERON VERBECK, UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHER: "AND I JUST SHOT AS MUCH AS I COULD AS SHE WENT BY, AND SHE JUST DISAPPEARED BACK OFF THE DROP, THEN I WAS JUST LIKE SHAKING, LIKE WOAH! THAT WAS INSANE!" DR. CARL MEYER WITH THE HAWAII INSTITUTE OF MARINE BIOLOGY SAYS GREAT WHITES MAY BE IN THE AREA BECAUSE OF HUMPBACK WHALES, WHO BREED IN HAWAIIAN WATERS FROM NOVEMBER THRU APRIL.
BUT THE BEHAVIOR VERBECK SAW IS FAIRLY NORMAL FOR GREAT WHITES. DR. CARL MEYER, HAWAII INSTITUTE FOR MARINE BIOLOGY: "TYPICAL BEHAVIOR OF THESE BIG SHARKS IS ONE OF WARINESS AROUND PEOPLE. SO EVEN THOUGH THEY MIGHT BE CURIOUS, THEY'RE ALSO WARY." DR. CARL MEYER, HAWAII INSTITUTE FOR MARINE BIOLOGY: "AND SO THE ONLY TIME THAT YOU SEE AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR IS TYPICALLY WHEN THEY'RE ACTIVELY FORAGING." VERBECK SAYS HE WAS UNNERVED AND OVERWHELMED BY THE EXPERIENCE, BUT NEVER FELT IN DANGER. DERON VERBECK, UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHER: "IF SHE WANTED TO TAKE ME, SHE WOULD HAVE TAKEN ME. AND HER DEMEANOR WAS JUST CURIOSITY, SHE JUST CAME UP TO LOOK TO SEE WHAT I WAS DOING." BRYCE: I IMAGI YOU'RE THANKFUL THAT YOU'RE NOT FISH FOOD RIGHT NOW.
DERON: HAHAHA YEAH, EXACTLY! BRYCE MOORE, KHON2 NEWS, WORKING FOR HAWAII..
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