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Great white shark whips around and lunges at a woman trying to pet it off Georgia
Video from a shark-tagging trip off Tybee Island shows a great white snap toward a veteran's hand. The crew says she was never in danger.
A woman on a shark-tagging trip off Georgia learned the hard way that a great white is not a pet. Video shows her reaching over the side of a boat to touch a shark. Then the shark whips its head around and lunges toward her.
The woman, a veteran identified only as Jen, pulled back in time. No one was hurt. The video was shot off Tybee Island near Savannah.
Jimmy Lee Armel, who runs the trip, said one second Jen was touching the wild shark "like it's the family dog" and the next it lunged. "Everybody on the boat felt that one in their chest," he wrote.
Tagging sharks for science
Armel runs Knot Lucky, a Savannah nonprofit that takes veterans out on the water. The group catches, tags and releases sharks so researchers can track them.
Each tagged shark is named after a fallen service member.
This shark was released without a tag. It swam away unharmed.
A reminder from the ocean
Great whites are among the ocean's top predators. Even on a guided trip, reaching toward a shark's head is a big risk.
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