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Watch video of a Florida surfer wiping out — atop a shark

By Howard Cohen
A surfer, on the red board, is seconds away from falling off his surfboard and landing atop, or very near, the shark pictured at the right. A video, captured by Hydrophilic on his drone at Fort Pierce Inlet, was posted on Feb. 26, 2018.
A surfer, on the red board, is seconds away from falling off his surfboard and landing atop, or very near, the shark pictured at the right. A video, captured by Hydrophilic on his drone at Fort Pierce Inlet, was posted on Feb. 26, 2018. Hydrophilic YouTube

A surfer at Fort Pierce Inlet had an unusual landing over the weekend when he wiped out and fell off of his surfboard.

Rather than a water landing, it appears he might have landed atop a shark — or very close by the toothy fish.

Luckily for the unidentified surfer the shark didn’t appear to mind cushioning his fall. The shark swam off, ignoring other surfers, and rejoined a school of other sharks swimming along Florida’s east coast. It is believed the sharks, some identified as blacktips, are part of a seasonal migration along Florida’s coast.

Jason Griffeth of Vero Beach, known on his YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pages as Hydrophilik, was at North Jetty at Fort Pierce Inlet when he captured the surfer-meets-shark footage, TCPalm reported.

Griffeth used 4K DJI Mavic Air drone equipment to film his nearly four-minute clip. The surfer’s spill near the shark happens around the 47-second mark.

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This story was originally published February 27, 2018 at 4:38 PM with the headline "Watch video of a Florida surfer wiping out — atop a shark."

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