By Tia Ghose, Senior Writer | July
12, 2017 06:17am ET
The world's largest fish, a whale
shark, recently got up close and personal with fishers in Ocean City, Maryland,
nudging their boat for long enough that the crew captured a stunning video.
Steve Moore — who helms the boat,
dubbed "The Stalker" — was on an overnight fishing trip in late June
when the crew spotted the 30- to 35-foot-long (9 to 11 meters) whale
shark, the
Delmarva Daily Times reported. A second sighting, on July 4,
occurred near the same spot. At that point, fisherman Josh Schleupner jumped
into the water to snorkel with the majestic fish, capturing awe-inspiring video
in the process, the Delmarva Daily Times reported. [On the
Brink: A Gallery of Wild Sharks]
But although the video of a
monster fish nudging its snout into a boat or swimming just feet from a human
may seem scary, such occurrences are usually not dangerous, nor are they
particularly rare, said Alistair Dove, vice president of research and
conservation at the Georgia Aquarium.
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