BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — Randy Fales, of Satellite Beach, was spearfishing last Sunday near Sebastian Inlet, but he said when he surfaced, his boat was nowhere to be found.
Fales said his boat, with his two daughters and others aboard, disconnected from its anchor and drifted 3 miles away.
What made matters scarier, a 16-foot shark approached him. A GoPro camera captured the entire incident.
“I’ve been diving for 35 years, and this is the first time anything like this has ever happened,” Fales told ABC News.
Fales blew a whistle for more than an hour, trying to get someone’s attention.
He was eventually rescued by another boater.
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