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The teens were not startled by the encounter and said the shark did not appear to be tagged in any way.

"He seemed nice, friendly, calm," Phelan said. Just a gray shadow coming up on us. You couldn't miss him. A 16-foot shark coming up on you.

Great white shark videobombed by leaping second shark

Remo Sabatini got more than he bargained for when recording his encounter with a great white shark after a second shark leapt out of the water and into the video.

Sabatini captured the rare footage while feeding the great white shark bait hanging from a rope off the side of his vessel off South Africa's Mossel Bay.

The second shark can be seen leaping high out of the water just as the great white nears the completion of its meal.

Playful lemon shark gets some love from scuba diver

Scuba diver Mickey Smith captured footage of a friendly 8-foot lemon shark named Blondie getting some "love" from a fellow scuba diver.

 

Video shared to YouTube by user Shark Addicts shows the shark allowing the scuba diver to the shark's face for about a minute.

Smith said Blondie is well known to the crew of Emerald Charters in Jupiter, Fla. and often has similar interactions with fellow divers Cameron Nimmo and Capt. Randy Jordan.

"This does not injure the shark in any way, she's an 8 foot, 200 lb. lemon shark we can't make her do anything she doesn't want to do," he wrote.

Florida woman taken to hospital with shark attached to arm

An unidentified 23-year-old Florida woman's shark encounter lasted longer than usual as she arrived at a local hospital with the shark still attached to her arm.

The 2-foot nurse shark was killed by a bystander before the fire department's arrival "but was still attached to her arm" when she arrived at Boca Regional Hospital in stable condition, fire rescue spokesman Robert Lemons said to UPI.

Witnesses say the woman and her brother were antagonizing the shark and "holding the shark by its tail, as Nate Pachter, 11, told the South Florida Sun Sentinel.


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