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Swimming with MONSTER Sharks Got Us BIT In Montauk – Barstool Outdoors Ep. 4

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Twenty miles off Montauk, the water turns from green to blue and the sharks start showing up.

The footage from SEAKVLT’s “Shark Cage Diving 20 miles off Montauk, NY” doesn’t need a dramatic headline to hold attention — a steel cage, a chum slick, and a mako shark circling six feet from the bars does that on its own. Despite marketing around the clip leaning on a “BIT” framing tied to Barstool Outdoors personalities, what’s actually on screen is a standard offshore cage-diving charter working the pelagic waters off Long Island in the summer of 2019.

• The dive takes place roughly 20 miles off Montauk, Long Island, in open Atlantic water rather than near shore.
• Divers work inside a steel cage suspended off the side of the charter boat, with chum slicks used to draw sharks toward the vessel.
• The species on camera are mako and thresher sharks, both of which move through Long Island’s offshore waters during the summer months.

The Setup Behind the Cage

Cage diving off Montauk isn’t a spur-of-the-moment swim — it’s a planned charter operation built around chum. Crews cut and drip fish oil and scraps into a slick that trails behind the anchored or drifting boat, and that scent trail is what pulls sharks in from miles away. The cage itself is lowered just off the hull, low enough in the water that divers inside can look out through the bars at whatever shows up in the slick.

It’s a method that’s been used off Montauk for decades by charter operators chasing mako, thresher, and blue sharks in particular, all species that pass through the canyon waters south of Long Island as water temperatures climb through July and August.

Mako and Thresher, Not Great Whites or Bull Sharks

The sharks that show up on camera are makos and threshers — fast, open-ocean predators that are common targets for this kind of offshore excursion, as opposed to the bull sharks or great whites that tend to get invoked for shock value in clickbait titles. Makos are the speed demons of the shark world, capable of bursts that make them a favorite of both cage-diving operators and sport fishermen; threshers are identifiable by the long, whip-like upper lobe of their tail, which they use to stun baitfish.

The footage focuses on exactly what a cage-diving trip is supposed to deliver: sharks circling the cage, brushing against the bars, and working the chum slick at close range. It’s the same style of close-quarters encounter documented in other shark-heavy footage like DAY 85: Sharks Really Wanted This Fish!, where the draw for viewers is proximity, not danger.

No independent report or public record from the outing describes an actual bite injury or emergency evacuation — the “BIT” in the title is marketing, not medicine.

Separating the Marketing From the Footage

The title attached to the wider promotional package — claiming participants got “BIT” — is the kind of framing that’s become common around Barstool Outdoors content, built to generate clicks rather than describe what’s on screen. As of August 2019, there’s no independent media coverage or public record of a catastrophic shark bite or medical evacuation tied to this specific charter. Any “bite” reference more plausibly points to minor contact with gear or incidental handling inside the cage rather than a shark actually latching onto a diver.

That gap between headline and footage isn’t unusual for outdoor adventure content chasing views — the same instinct that turns a snake encounter into Giant Python Bit My Face applies here. The underlying activity, cage diving with mako and thresher sharks off a working charter boat, is inherently dramatic enough without embellishment.

Montauk Attracts Distinctive Travel Experiences

Montauk’s position at the eastern tip of Long Island puts charter boats within striking distance of deep canyon water where pelagic sharks feed through the summer, which is exactly why operators run 20-mile cage trips out of the port rather than staying close to the beach. It’s the same offshore water that’s produced notable shark catches and encounters documented elsewhere, including footage like Bare-handed shark fishing, where proximity to open Atlantic feeding grounds is the whole draw.

For anyone chasing the same experience, the charter model is straightforward: book a slot on a Montauk-based cage boat during mako and thresher season, expect a few hours of running chum before the first fin shows up, and know going in that the cage — not a wetsuit and a snorkel — is what’s keeping the encounter safe.