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Great white shark spotted jumping out of water just feet from surfers

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Brian Koerber
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A surfing camera in San Francisco captured the moment a massive great white shark put on a splashy (and scary) show.

The clip, which was shot Wednesday morning at Ocean Beach, shows nearly a dozen surfers waiting in the water as the shark jumps clear out of the water for a pretty sweet belly flop. While many of the surfers missed seeing the shark showing off, a few surfers witnessed the action.

“I saw it straight on,” surfer Nick Masturzo told Surfline. “And when I saw that white belly go up and the super defined white of pectoral fins I knew what it was."


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Masturzo says the shark was 6 to 8 feet in length and was likely a juvenile.

Surfline reports that while a few surfers did get out of the water, about 30 of them remained to hit the waves.

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Brian Koerber

Brian was the Culture Editor and has been working at Mashable on the web culture desk since 2014.

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