Jaw-Dropping: Gargantuan Shark Has Students On Sailboat Screaming

Fortunately, this "big ass shark" was just after plankton.

A jaw-droppingly large shark cruising by a sailboat off the East Coast gave seafaring college students the thrill of a lifetime.  Student Alex Albrecht captured the creature on film from the rigging of the SSV Corwith Cramer and posted it to TikTok on Tuesday. The video had been viewed more than 50 million times by Thursday. Albrecht spotted the creature while doing a Sea Education Association program on marine biodiversity on the boat, which sailed from Florida to Woods Hole, Massachusetts.