Drone video captures shark amid blissfully unaware pro surfers

As DroneDJ has noted in the past, the swiftness, agility, and powerful imaging tech drones provide have revolutionized the way surfing is photographed, affording spectators nearly first-person perspectives of what riders see. Now, a UAV has allowed one of the sport’s pros to film some arresting footage of his own – this time of fellow competitors being closely looked over by a very large shark.

The video was shot and uploaded by Nathan Florence, who at the time was on the beach watching heats in the world tour Corona Open competition at famed South African break Jeffereys Bay. Florence – the younger brother of champion (yes, twice is obligatory) John John Florence – got word of a shark swimming near the surfers in the lineup, and managed to get his posse’s drone up and out to the area quickly. 

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What the drone then located and filmed was a great white…