An off-duty police officer in Florida jumped into the ocean to save a boy who was boarding a boogieboard after a shark was seen swimming towards the boy in a touching video.
Cocoa Beach Police Officer Adrian Kosicki was walking the beach with his wife Thursday when they noticed a shark approaching the boy in the shallow shoreline waters, police wrote on Facebook.
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Police shared the video of a bystander showing a shark fin traversing the surface of the water as it swims toward the boy.
“Hey buddy! Hey, there’s a shark right there,” says one viewer before another yells, “There it is!”
Police said the shark, in the photo on the right, swam a few feet from Kosicki and the boy when they reached shore safely, in the photo on the left.
(Cocoa Beach Police and Fire)
Rapid Kosicki jumped into the water and grabbed the boy, dragging him through the waves to shore as the shark swam “dangerously close,” police said. Kosicki and the boy made it to the safety of the beach when the shark swam just meters away from them, according to the video.
The shark species was not immediately clear.
“We are certainly not marine biologists, educated and trained to differentiate between the various species of sharks, their respective feeding habits, and aggressiveness around swimmers,” police wrote. “We simply do what we do best: protect the public from harm.”
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Florida sees the largest number of shark attacks during the months of July, August, September, and October, when water temperatures rise and human activity in the waters increases, the Brevard Times reported.
Brevard County, where Cocoa Beach is located, has the second-highest number of Florida shark attacks behind Volusia County, according to the newspaper. Home to Daytona Beach and New Smyrna Beach, Volusia County is known as the Shark Bite Capital of the World.
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“Thanks to Adrian, we will never know what that shark’s intentions were, and that little boy will always have a great story to tell,” police said. “Great job!”
