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Shark Shocks Southington Honeymooners
Southington newlywed gets more than he bargained for in caged shark dive.
For a Southington honeymooner, it was a ‘close encounter’ that probably was a tad too close for comfort.
In a few fleeting seconds, newlywed Spencer Reilly had a face-to-face look with a great white shark while, thankfully, diving in a cage off the coast of South Africa.
The great white apparently chased after some bait that was used to enhance the experience of divers who were in Gansbaai, South Africa — a tactic that has produced a number of comments on You Tube where the video was first posted. As of Wednesday evening, there were nearly 900,000 views of the 12-second video that Reilly posted.
The shark can be seen biting into a bar of the cage, while Reilly has an indecipherable reaction.
He and his bride, Tiffany Levesque spent two weeks in South Africa for their honeymoon that included shark diving in a cage on Nov. 2, according to NBC Connecticut.
The NBC Connecticut story can be found here.
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