Watch: Man attacked by shark while trying to take underwater footage; video goes viral

<p style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.55pt 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;"><strong>New Delhi:</strong> Sharks can terrify anybody, even veteran shark researchers. </span></p> <p style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.55pt 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;">A video of a shark researchers’ close shave with a white shark is going viral on the internet. </span></p> <p style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.55pt 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;">As per reports, the encounter took place one week off Wellfleet in the United States, when the Shark expert Greg Skomal was on the boat’s platform. </span></p> <p style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.55pt 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;">He held a log pole with an attached camera to record underwater footage of the shark. </span></p> <p style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.55pt 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;">He was bending for the rod to go deeper in the ocean and that was when the shark jumped right out of the water opening its mouth right at Skomal’s feet. </span></p> <p style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.55pt 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;">Atlantic White Shark Conservancy shared the video of the incident. It said that though reports of breaching White Sharks are frequently heard, but it is rare to sight them in video. </span></p> <p style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.55pt 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;">The conservancy said that White sharks are wild animals and it is always advised to be vigilant when near them.</span></p> <p style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.55pt 0cm;">Watch:</p> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wXkMqk8mwjs" width="932" height="524" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>

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