Nick Bailey filmed himself gently grabbing the shark’s tail before the marine predator swam away.
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A teenager touched the tail of a great white shark during one of two close shark encounters while snorkelling in Martin County, Florida, in late March.
Nick Bailey told Storyful he was snorkelling near Stuart on March 25 when he saw the first great white swimming toward him. Video captured on his GoPro shows the shark gliding through the water nearby before swimming away.
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The fact that this is in Florida surprises me, mostly because seeing a great white in Florida is pretty rare, we usually have bull sharks, tiger sharks, hammerhead sharks, nurse sharks, blacktip sharks, and Lemon sharks, but a great white, that’s what surprises me, it seems like it’s closer to land because usually if great whites are going to Florida, they’re mostly going towards deeper water.