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Great White Shark Gets Alarmingly Close to Kids in Wild Video

The 10-foot shark seemed to be contemplating whether the children were prey.

A great white shark was spotted swimming within a couple of feet of a group of children on the Southern California coast. Carlos Gauna, who films sharks under the name “The Malibu Artist,” said Monday he captured the encounter through his drone from more than a mile away. The children appeared completely unaware the roughly 10-foot shark was circling nearby and even waved at the drone overhead. “This shark has a tendency to get close to people, but on this day, it really made me nervous,” Gauna told Good Morning America. “My heart was pounding.” The footage shows the shark swimming directly toward one child before passing by and then making a second close approach. Gauna said the shark appears to have a propeller wound near its dorsal fin, an injury he believes could be affecting its behavior. “I’ve been around them a lot,” Gauna said. “They don’t normally come at you like that.” No one was injured.