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Intense Footage Captures a Close Encounter With a Great White Shark

Abby Parks By Abby Parks
Published Runtime 4:34

Movies like Jaws use dramatic music to signal a shark’s arrival, but real-life encounters are far less polished and far more chaotic. This video shows a group of people on a boat reacting in real time as a great white shark approaches and circles nearby. Watch how the situation unfolds and see what an unexpected shark encounter actually looks like outside of Hollywood.

Abby Parks

About the Author

Abby Parks

Abby Parks has authored a fiction novel, theatrical plays, short stories, poems, and song lyrics. She's recorded two albums of her original songs, and is a multi-instrumentalist. She has managed a website for folk music and written articles on singer-songwriters, folk bands, and other things music-oriented. She's also a radio DJ for a folk music show. As well as having been a pet parent to rabbits, birds, dogs, and cats, Abby loves seeking sightings of animals in the wild and has witnessed some more exotic ones such as Puffins in the Farne Islands, Southern Pudu on the island of Chiloe (Chile), Penguins in the wild, and countless wild animals in the Rocky Mountains (Big Horn Sheep, Mountain Goats, Moose, Elk, Marmots, Beavers).
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