Hubble says there were 6 to 8 sharks swarming the area, and the clear water made the perfect vantage point.
“There was four to six on one side of the boat and all of a sudden, two of them came up behind me and went around me. They stayed close together,” said Hubble.
“They were good-sized,” he added. “There was one that had to be every bit of 8 to 10 feet and they averaged- the smallest one maybe 6 to 10 feet.”Paul Hubble looks on at sharks circle boats “If I had known my fiancee was filming me, I would have knelt down and let them slurk around,” he laughed.“I’ve never seen that, every weekend for years I’ve come out and I’ve never seen sharks come up like that,” he said,Saturday’s sighting comes nearly two months after a pregnant hammerhead shark washed up on Orange Beach, the remains gathered by biologists for study.“I think everybody needs to know that when we go down there, we’re in their world. So they live there. That happens so rare.
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