This footage shows a Hawaiian angler catching two large tuna fish and hoisting them onto his kayak while fishing but both are mauled by circling sharks.

The first piece of footage shows the moment that the man, named Connor, hauls the first large tuna fish out of the water with his fishing rod. He can be heard saying: “He’s been sharked I think. No way he would be coming up this easy after that.”

And sure enough, the fish eventually reaches the surface motionless. It appears to already be dead by the time Connor, who said he is a fisherman in Hawaii, hoists it out of the water and into his kayak. The outline of what appears to be a shark can be seen beneath the surface of the water under the kayak. The man can be heard saying: “Big shark underneath me!”

And sure enough, just as he is hoisting the fish out of the water, the shark appears to come back for another bite. Connor can be heard saying “Holy f***!” as he wrestles what remains of the fish away from the shark.

After having deposited the half-fish in his boat, Connor points the camera towards the depths below where the outline of the large shark can be seen circling beneath the tiny kayak.

He then places the camera under the water, where at least three sharks can be seen swimming around him.

As the mauled tuna fish lies in his kayak, the fisherman can be heard saying in a second piece of footage: “Well, I’m out here kayak fishing and hooked a tuna and then this happened. Oh my gosh! Probably like a 45-lb tuna just got bodied by a shark. That is scary! I do not want to be here. Oh my goodness! Cue the Jaws theme.”

And in the third piece of footage, Connor explained that he went fishing again and the same thing happened a second time, with the remains of a second large tuna fish seen in the bottom of his boat after it was mauled and cut in half just like the first one.

Connor can be heard saying in the footage: “I got half of a fish if that counts for anything?”

In the fourth video, the fisherman can be saying that “now is not a good time to be falling into the water.”

The angler, who told Newsflash he regularly shares footage of himself fishing in Hawaii on social media and video-sharing platforms like YouTube, shared some of the footage on TikTok where it has notched up nearly 470,000 likes so far. He captioned it: “There is always a bigger fish.”

Connor said the images were shot in July and that he believes the sharks were “a group of Galapagos sharks that ganged up on the tuna on my line.”

Galapagos sharks (Carcharhinus galapagensis) are a species that favour reef environments near oceanic islands.

Connor told Newsflash that he has been fishing his whole life, “ever since I could hold a rod.”

He added: “Fishing is an outlet for excitement, exercise, and exploration for me.

“I’ve caught plenty of cool fish. Monster sharks, air-breathing arapaima, pelagic tuna.”