As they watched the beach below from their hotel balcony, Catarena Peek and her boyfriend Alec Deshotel were treated to a once-in-a-lifetime sighting of a huge hammerhead shark chasing stingrays close to shore at Orange Beach in Alabama.
“This is the first time we have ever seen anything like this for sure,” Deshotel told FOX10 News. “I look out the window…and there it is. Massive 10- to 12-foot hammerhead…We don’t know how big it was, but it was massive…
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“There was some man down there screaming that there was a shark and I guess they finally saw the dorsal fin and they realized how close he started getting so they started jumping out of the water as fast as they could.”
The hammerhead shark showed its speed and agility during the chase that gave those on the beach an incredible close-up view of nature at work.
The view from the 10th floor by Peek and Deshotel was pretty special, too, as you can see from Peek’s video on Facebook.
“I just ended up videoing it and it was a really cool video so I just posted to Facebook thinking a couple hundred of my friends would find it kind of cool and then all of a sudden, I looked down at my phone and it was over 100,000 views and I was like, Oh, that’s pretty cool,” she told FOX10 News.
Indeed, it is quite cool–a “once-in-a-lifetime kind of experience for sure,” the couple pointed out to FOX10 News.
