Chandler and Shaun Moore were surfing at New Smyrna Beach, when the young boy was mysteriously knocked off his board. The two later discovered what had knocked him off was actually a small black tip shark sailing through the air as it leapt out the water. Mr Moore talked about the odd fall and his initial reaction.
He said: “I typically push [Chandler] into the wave and then I stand in the water [while] he paddles back to me — so I noticed on that wave that he fell off the side of the board kind of awkwardly,” Shaun told People. “And I said, ‘Hey what happened?’”
“He’s like, ‘I saw some fish and something bumped me and knocked me off the board,’” Shaun, a former professional wakeboarder, added.
Luckily the freak occurrence was caught on the father and son’s GoPro camera mounted on the surfboard allowing them to catch the split second encounter.
“We slowed the video down and paused it and were like, ‘Oh my gosh, there’s a shark!” Shaun recalled. “At that point, we were already done surfing for the night and were like, ‘Oh my gosh, we dodged a bullet there.’
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“We felt really lucky that Chandler didn’t end up having to get stitches or anything like that,” he added.
“Soo… didn’t really wanna have to show mom this,” Shaun later joked in the videos caption on Instagram
“Pretty wild experience, glad Chandler made it out safe!”
New Smyrna has been described as the “shark capital of the world by National Geographic, with those swimming in the area estimated to at some point in a visit be as close as 10 feet to a shark.
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In normal circumstances exclusion barriers are dropped in order to protect those swimming – and keep beasts out.
But according to The South African, these were not deployed “due to fishing activity”.
The video contains footage of the locals and tourists making the mad rush from the water to the sea.
Running and jumping out of the blue, the relieved punters then took refuge on the nearby sandy beached.
The images were uploaded with the caption: “Friday 13th December [Fishhoek Beach].
“When the shark spotters alarm goes off and you actually see the shark.”
Moments after the locals are safe, the camera moves towards an ominous dark shadow in the water.
Organisation Shark Spotters said the beast was a Bronze Whaler.
It appeared that this was a second Bronze Whaler, with the first spotted the day before at the same beach.