May 27, 2021 11:17 PM EDT
Tiktok Video
@.alex.albrecht Sailed six weeks in the atlantic saw this big f g shark ♬ original sound - Alex Albrecht
On Tuesday, student Alex Albrecht recorded the monster on tape from the SSV Corwith Cramer s rigging and shared it on TikTok. By Thursday, the video had been seen over 50 million times.
Albrecht saw the critter while onboard the boat sailing from Florida to Woods Hole, Massachusetts, for a Sea Education Association program on marine biodiversity.
Albrecht captioned the video, Sailed six weeks in the Atlantic spotted this giant F g shark.
Others may be heard screaming and shouting, Oh, my God! in the video.
By Jason Hall
May 28, 2021
Passengers aboard a ship bound for New England spotted a giant shark in the Atlantic Ocean in a now viral video.
The incident was captured in a video shared by
Alex Albrecht, 20, of Seattle, on his TikTok channel, which has been seen by more than 30 million people as of Friday.
The Sun reports the passengers were on a six-week marine research trip from Florida to Massachusetts and spotted the gigantic shark about 100 miles offshore of New England. I was sailing on the SSV Corwith Cramer on a semester program with Sea Education Association studying Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Albrecht said. We also were being trained as tallship crew, so we sailed the boat ourselves as students. The video is taken from high up on the mast, where you can climb to tend to rigging or enjoy the view.