Apparently, airborne sharks don’t just appear in movies. A surfer had a real-life Sharknado experience happen to him while participating in a surfing contest.
Photographer Jordan Anast captured the moment a shark jumped out of the water at the exact moment a surfer was riding a wave. The incredible photo was a once-in-a-lifetime shot that Anast is grateful for.
“My website and my Instagram have blown up,” he said. “The traffic is unbelievable as this thing has gone worldwide.”
He added: “It’s a shot I’ll never get again. It just looks like Sharknado, it doesn’t look real.”
The surfer riding the wave, Tyler Warren, didn’t notice the shark while moving through the choppy conditions during the annual San Onofre Surfing Club contest. Other surfers said that the animal was hunting a pelican that happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The San Onofre Surfing Club posted a different image of the moment on Facebook with the caption: “An uninvited guest popped up during the San Onofre Surfing Club’s annual surfing contest today. Surfers in the water said that it was going for the pelican in the upper righthand corner of the photo. Scored a 10 by all judges!”
Chris Lowe of Cal State Long Beach’s Shark Lab estimated that the photobombing shark was a great white juvenile about 9 feet long. Sharks can breach 10 feet in the air to hunt but it tends to be on rare occasions. It sounds like this one must have been hungry.
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