Jessica and her family were visiting a beach in North Carolina on June 26 when they witnessed three men reel in a shark from the sea, described as a seven-foot-long bull shark. Jessica told WRAL-TV: “They were boogie boarding all week and we had no idea that something so big and so deadly would be swimming right around us.” After taking some snapshots with the shark, Jessica said that the men released it back into the sea unharmed.

The video has been viewed over 900,000 times on Facebook. Credit: YouTube/Jessica Flannelly- Montagna