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Hammerhead shark stalks paddleboarder during 83-mile trek across open ocean, wild video shows

A Florida woman kept her cool as a hammerhead shark closely followed behind her paddleboarding excursion in the middle of the sea.

Malea Tribble of Fort Lauderdale was competing Monday in the Crossing For Cystic Fibrosis event — an 83-mile paddle race from Bimini in the Bahamas to Lake Worth Beach, Florida — when the giant fish began stalking her.

She was about halfway across the Gulf Stream — nearly 40 miles from Florida — when the hammerhead made its presence known.

“I initially felt a few taps on the bottom of my board, but I dismissed it, thinking I picked up some seaweed on my fin,” Tribble told Fox 35.

Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/06/30/hammerhead-shark-stalks-paddleboarder-in-open-ocean/

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