HORROR footage has been released showing the moment a shark snuck up on a diver during an underwater attack.
Spearfisher Paul Dabill, 48, was swimming off the coast of Jupiter, Florida, and caught a snapper before realizing he had gotten in the way of a hungry shark.
“I had just shot a snapper and was going to retrieve the fish,” he told Mirror.
“I didn't realise it at the time but a shark was watching me, and as soon as I shot the fish it decided to go after it as well."
The diver continued that the shark swam under him and rammed into his body before swimming away.
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“He swam up from behind and underneath me so I didn't see the shark until it collided with me," he explained.
"It was very shocking, to say the least!”
Dabill, who also works as a photographer, noted that he narrowly avoided trouble, as sharks are always around the waters of southeast Florida.
"Sharks are always around where we spearfish in southeast Florida. You always need to be aware of their presence," he warned.
According to the diver, his situation was the most dangerous as well, as sharks tend to often come for fish that are speared.
“The riskiest time is when a fish is speared – that is when the sharks will go after it," he said.
“Great care needs to be taken retrieving the fish and it should be removed from the water as fast as possible."
After the shark rammed into him, Dabill explained that he swam in the opposite direction and resurfaced while the shark dismissed him.
“As soon as we collided, I swam towards the surface and the shark swam in a different direction," the spearfisher noted.
Dabill also believes that it was a nurse shark that swam up on him, which is also part of the reason why he wasn't bitten.
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"Generally they are not a dangerous species,” he said.
“However they have been known to steal fish from spearfishermen and divers collecting lobsters."
He added: "If your hand gets in the way of the shark trying to eat something a bite could occur.”
Even so, a 2016 paper rated nurse sharks as the fourth-highest for shark attacks on humans, according to Mirror.
As The U.S. Sun previously reported, in the last 47 years, there have been over 1,219 recorded shark attacks.
Statistics gathered place Florida as the most common place to be attacked by a shark in the United States, per FloridaPanhandle.com.
Dabill's narrow escape comes after several terrifying shark attacks this year around the globe.
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