Spinner shark 🌪️🦈 This species is named after its habit to breach the surface in a spinning motion in pursuit of prey. This is one of the more rare, shy species we see at our site, but this one was bold and curious. VC: @dianawdowd #southflorida #eastcoast #joinus #sharkstomasses #floridasharkdiving #jupiter #sharks #shark #sharkdiving #ecotoursim #florida #palmbeach #miami #adventure #diving #ocean #natgeo #discovery | Florida Shark Diving

When Darren Kaye set out to surf in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, last week, the last thing he expected was to get knocked off his board by a shark that jumped out of the water. “Came out of nowhere and hit me like a truck,” Kaye said in a post of the video. “His nose slammed me right in the face, his pectoral fin bruised my left bicep.” He was hit by a spinner shark — a species that gets its name for the way it takes spinning leaps out of the ocean while hunting prey. They can grow to be 8 feet lo