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A fisherman and his son discovered a great white shark while swimming in New Jersey over the weekend.

When Jim Piazza was fishing with his son Jaden, he fell into a nearly giant creature.

“The video doesn’t justify this,” Piazza, who fishes every summer in New Jersey, told NJ.com on Monday. “At that point, he just became our conscience. I’ve never seen anything like it.”

Immediately after it was discovered, the United States Coast Guard boarded a boat from Piazza and conducted a security check.

Jim Piazza of Pennsylvania spotted a giant shark off New Jersey on Saturday (Photo: Jim Piazza).

It’s not uncommon to see great white sharks off the New Jersey shore, but it’s very rare to get as close as Piazza and his son. The International Shark Attack file lists 15 tried and failed shark attacks in New Jersey since 1837.

Piazza, who rents a house on Sea Isle for the summer, estimates the sharks are about 12 feet long, a little longer than a 23-foot-long fishing boat. Sharks of this size typically weigh around 1,000 pounds.

He had been fishing with his son and one of his friends all morning, and as they were walking home in the afternoon, someone yelled, “Shark watch out!”

Piazza said he almost ran into sharks, but luckily the group picked up the phone and slowed down quickly enough to record the meeting.

“I didn’t expect to see a great white there,” Piazza said.

Pennsylvanians told the publication that shark sightings had already made it a memorable summer, even though he fished almost every day.

“I’ve never seen anything like it,” Piazza said.

Piazza viewed the video thousands of times on social media and shared it with the United States Coast Guard’s social media page.

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