A beachgoer at Hilton Head Island, S.C., on Tuesday captured dramatic footage showing a large lemon shark chasing a stingray almost onto the beach.
WSAV News 3 shared the footage, captured by Katy Albright, under the heading, “Shark vs. a stingray on a Hilton Head Island beach.”
It wasn’t much of a contest, however, as the shark appears to have caught the stingray without too much trouble in water just inches deep.
Albright described the scene as “Incredible” and “Wild.”
Some types of sharks, including lemon sharks and juvenile white sharks, prey on stingrays in shallow water at certain times of year.
Outcast Sport Fishing’s Chip Michalove, who tags sharks for research off Hilton Head, identified the shark in the video as a lemon shark.
A top Facebook comment reads: “I’m glad I didn’t see both of them while I was at Hilton Head swimming at the beach on my vacation a week ago.”
