Watch this acrobatic seal escape a great white
Last week, a shark acted like the predatory beast that it is and killed a seal in the waters off Cape Cod.
This week, the seals are prepared. Or, one slick seal was. A video filmed by Greg Skomal, a shark expert for the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, shows a seal performing some impressive leaps, twists and turns as it contorts its body to avoid becoming dinner.
The video was captured during one of the twice-weekly trips to Chatham made by researchers from the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, according to The Boston Globe.
The acrobatic seal was lucky, but Cynthia Wigren, president of the conservancy, told The Globe the team witnessed the same shark attack a different seal further offshore.
Read the full story at The Globe.
Check out this gallery of sharks that roam the waters around Cape Cod:
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