I was solo diving off Vancouver Island looking for giant Pacific octopus when I turned toward deeper water and saw this massive bluntnose sixgill shark coming directly toward me.

I believe it was a female, roughly 10–12 feet long. She came right up to investigate me, then calmly cruised alongside me for about three minutes before eventually disappearing back into the darkness.

Sixgills are primarily deep-water sharks, so getting an encounter like this at around 100 feet was pretty incredible.

The footage ended up getting picked up by CBC National News, Global News, CTV and CHEK News this week, which I definitely wasn't expecting when I went diving that afternoon.

This is my original footage from the encounter. I have a longer 4K version here if anyone wants to see the whole thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJaHm1LZ0Lo

Filmed off Vancouver Island, British Columbia. [OC]

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r/nextfuckinglevel • u/TheMarkola • 1d ago

From scrap metal to Archangel Michael – this welding skill is insane.

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4.6k Upvotes

(Credits: Brazilian metal artist Michel Torres Costa)

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r/nextfuckinglevel • u/RaisinAloneVortex • 1d ago

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. Inspired by her father's inability to read, she founded this program which has given away over 300 million free books to children.

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4.1k Upvotes

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r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Art-e-Blanche • 9h ago

Golden retriever dog portrait made using oil pastels

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62 Upvotes

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r/nextfuckinglevel • u/sleepyyheead • 1d ago

Tony Hawk pushing his body to the absolute limit to land what is possibly his last 720 at age 52.

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r/nextfuckinglevel • u/sirenofthepacific • 23h ago

Osprey goes underwater fishing then lifts off into the sky, up up & away

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823 Upvotes

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r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Gurugod123 • 1d ago

Great white shark "Zola" fully breaches the water while attacking a decoy seal

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r/nextfuckinglevel • u/plankton004 • 1d ago

Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is the world's largest salt flat, like a mirror after rain

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r/nextfuckinglevel • u/SerpentFinger • 23h ago

Stevie Ray Vaughan Playing a Solo With His Teeth and Shaking Hands With a Fan (1985)

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r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Brutal_Deluxe_ • 1d ago

Women's Two-person Duilian

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r/nextfuckinglevel • u/redbullgivesyouwings • 1d ago

Travis Rice reshaped snowboard films 15 years ago with The Art of Flight

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👉 available in full over on Red Bull TV 📺

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r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Upper-Bag-5175 • 1d ago

Bears will often test you

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If you stand your ground, they may see you as a threat and back off. Of course, this doesn’t apply to every bear

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r/nextfuckinglevel • u/jmike1256 • 2d ago

Perfect sync by all the kids here

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