Great white shark washed ashore at Cape Breton beach

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In the video he took of the apparent shark swimming on the shoreside of North Bay Wharf in Ingonish on Thursday, Best can be heard talking about the size of theBest took videos of his encounter with the shark and posted them to his Facebook page. By publication time, there were more than 50,000 views.

" It was just pretty cool because we never see anything like that before. I was thinking about not swimming in the ocean anymore," he added with a laugh. "I have seen lots of fins but never got close enough to see what kind of shark it was like we could with this one." The videos show the animal which looks like a great white shark swimming toward the wharf where Best is standing with others. The shark turns and keeps swimming into another part of the wharf, thrashs a bit off the dock and then swims away.

Best said the shark did this swim to the dock and back three or four times and almost beached itself at the shore.Best said the shark's dorsal fin was injured with a piece out of it. In the videos Best took, there are angles where the shark's fin looks bent.knew the great white shark that washed up there was the same one; they had the same injury on their dorsal fin.

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