A fin.

Scary story here . . . at this moment, there are two full-grown sharks in the water with us, we can see both of them, we know they see us, and they're moving quite slowly and close to the ground. My camera is able to take video, but it's quite difficult because I have to not only aim the camera, but I have to aim my HID light at the same time, all the while trying to "dive."

So right after taking this picture, I decide now might be a good time to attempt a video. I switch my camera to video mode, aim as well as I can with both hands (camera and light) and hope for the best. The video is here. While not the greatest underwater video, but one of the scariest.

What you can't see is that as soon as I find the shark, it's coming right at me, not aggressively, just towards me. It keeps coming, and keeps coming, and I'm forced to drop my light and camera, and cover my head and face with both arms and hands, because this shark swam right through where I was sitting. What you see in the video is the shark coming towards me, me dropping everything, but still hoping something will show up on video, and the underside of the shark going over me.

As soon as I stop recording, I turn my camera back to picture mode, and Chris signals me and points to what we see in the next three pictures.

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