Dropping a GoPro off the Navarre Beach Fishing Pier, the longest in the Gulf of Mexico

Very cool

All of that is one of the reasons I would never swim in that part of Florida. All of those fish bring in bigger, predatory fish, which is why there is no great shortage of overhead shots of the beaches in that area with a dozen or or so sharks swimming around.

The other is the riptides. I used to work next door to the Coast Guard station in the area and hearing the chopper go out once or twice a week to get someone's body was a fairly sobering thing.

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All of that is one of the reasons I would never swim in that part of Florida. All of those fish bring in bigger, predatory fish, which is why there is no great shortage of overhead shots of the beaches in that area with a dozen or or so sharks swimming around.

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I used to always walk out into the ocean as far as I could before it was over my head. That was until I had about a 4-5' shark get about 6' from me before swimming away. Very harrowing. Now I don't get in any water I can't see the ocean floor and isn't more than waist deep.