A Florida Atlantic University student in a kayak got an unexpected two-hour tow from a hammerhead shark, and the 6-minute video he silently took of part of that 12- mile adventure is now making the rounds of national news websites from The Huffington Post, Gawker and Reddit to MSN and ABC World News.
It started with Adam Fisk's YouTube video, "Lone Man Gets Towed for Miles in Kayak By 11 Foot Hammerhead Shark.
According to the Tampa Bay Times, Fisk is a senior at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and is aiming for a career with the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Fisk told the paper he put in off the Boynton Inlet at 6 a.m. with the head-mounted camera and some fishing poles aboard. Several hours later, the shark took over the navigation taking him all the way to Lake Worth, Fla.
"I figured if my line was holding up I would get the best video I could, just to show my friends," Fisk told the Tampa Bay Times in a phone interview. "I never thought I would get this far
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