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21st Aug 2014

Video: Stunning footage shows a shark being swallowed whole by a giant fish

Damn nature, you scary!

Alan Loughnane

Just when you thought you thought you were having a bad day…

An amazing video was released on YouTube showing a four-foot long black tip shark being devoured by a massive goliath grouper off the coast of Florida, USA.

Having been snagged by a fishing line from the boat, the shark is slowly being reeled in when the orange menace that is the grouper emerges from the water and appears to swallow the shark in one huge bite.

Reddit user gimbb14, who uploaded the video, posted this bit of information about the incident:

“Ran out to the reef at around 8am yesterday and wasn’t having much luck. Put out a chum block, set down some blue runners on the reef and waited. Had a 15lb goliath grouper take and brought him up, as I brought him to the boat, the monster goliath shown in the video came and tried to steal him. About 30 minutes later I had about a 5foot nurse shark take and brought him up. As I was dehooking the shark, the goliath came back and inspected but didn’t attack him. Finally, about an hour after the nurse shark, I hooked the black tip behind the boat in the chum slick, and then the hilarity in the video began.”

All we know is this video is definitely worth a minute of your time…

Video via gimbb14 and hat tip to the Sun Sentinel.

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