Video Captures Terrifying Moment US Biologist Was Almost Struck By Lightning

The incident happened when 35-year-old Forrest Galante was filming a promotional video for his YouTube channel in South Florida.

A video has captured the terrifying moment a wildlife expert and biologist almost got struck by lightning while he was recording a video in Everglades City, Florida. The incident happened last week when 35-year-old Forrest Galante was filming a promotional video for his YouTube channel in South Florida, Fox News reported.  How close have you come to being hit by lightning?This is insane. The host of Discovery Plus and Animal Planet, @ForrestGalante, was actually hit by lightning while recording.In the video, you can see he was discussing the importance of having a GPS device, when a huge bolt… pic.twitter.com/lseyEzgNUZ

"We're getting some great shots. Beautiful day. The water's clear. Things are going great. Towards the end of the day, we come up on the last thing we need to do, and the rain starts to roll in...It's Florida. It rains here. There's lightning and thunder all the time,'' he said in the video while standing in thigh-high water in Everglades.

Just a few seconds later, lightning strikes right next to him, prompting him to duck and scramble out of the water. He is heard saying, ''I got hit. I felt it. Yeah, I got hit. That hurt.''