A black bear was spotted swimming next to people on a sunny day at a crowded beach in Destin, Florida, on June 11.
Footage taken by Chris Barron shows the bear walking out of the ocean next to beachgoers.
Chris Barron told Storyful the bear was swimming right beside his 12-year-old son and Chris’s brother.
“The bear was out pretty far. A lot of people started swimming in. I was worried it was a shark. I walked over and thought it was a dog,” Barron said.
“At this point I realized it was a bear and started videoing. It kept swimming in. He got to shore, shook off, and ran into the brush in the sand dunes.
“I think most people were shocked instead of being scared. No one expected to see a bear in the Gulf of Mexico.”
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Florida’s ‘Dr. Deep’ Resurfaces After a Record 100 Days Living Underwater | AP
A university professor who spent 100 days living underwater at a Florida Keys lodge for scuba divers resurfaced Friday and raised his face to the sun for the first time since March 1.
Dr. Joseph Dituri set a new record for the longest time living underwater without depressurization during his stay at Jules’ Undersea Lodge, submerged beneath 30 feet (9.14 meters) of water in a Key Largo lagoon.
The diving explorer and medical researcher shattered the previous mark of 73 days, two hours and 34 minutes set by two Tennessee professors at the same lodge in 2014.
“It was never about the record,” Dituri said. “It was about extending human tolerance for the underwater world and for an isolated, confined, extreme environment.”
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13-Year-Old Austin Swimmer Gets on Team USA | KVUE
Holden Ewan is a 13-year-old Austin swimmer who will compete for Team USA in the coming months. He said when he’s in the water it feels like home.
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Man Drowns During Early Morning Swim at Tulsa Community Pool | FOX23 News Tulsa
Police said a man drowned in a Tulsa community pool during a swim early Sunday.
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Meeting Olympic Swimmers at the Tyr Pro Series | David Gentz Vlogs
I attended the TYR Pro Series swim meet in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I got to see a lot of fast, record-breaking swims and got to meet a bunch of amazing Olympic swimmers.
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Hammerhead Sharks Circle Swimmers, Boaters Near Robinson Island | FOX10 News
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North Austin Swim Instructor Teaches Community About Summer Safety | FOX 7 Austin
Marty Butler is a swim instructor and paramedic.
She is putting her skills to work, teaching the community the different ways they can stay safe this summer.
“I come across many situations that would have been prevented if people had known the Heimlich maneuver, and they would have been choking, or if people would have done bystander CPR with good compressions,” Butler said.
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Teaching Safety Skills With Swimming Lessons | WIVBTV
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Humans at Some California Beaches Are Swimming With Great White Sharks 97% Of the Time, Study Reveals | ABC7
The study looked at 26 beaches along Southern California and found great white sharks were mainly focused at two hotspots so-called aggregation sites at Del Mar and Carpinteria.
At the two hotspots, Rex found that people in the ocean at these aggregation sites are close to sharks 98% of the time. Sometimes just yards away.
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