{"id":159497,"date":"2025-09-25T12:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T12:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/159497\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T12:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T12:19:10","slug":"guys-in-water-holding-drinks-panic-and-race-to-shore-despite-false-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/159497\/","title":{"rendered":"Guys in water holding drinks panic and race to shore despite false alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Six guys holding drinks and enjoying the shallow water off a Florida beach suddenly became panicked when they noticed a scary sea creature among them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Undoubtedly, they believed the sea creature to be a shark, and it swam right between them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Near St. Petersburg, Michael McCarthy of See Through Canoe Co. captured video via drone that shows the men quickly scrambling to get to shore once they noticed the intruder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But it was not a shark. It was a dolphin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThis dolphin had these guys running all the way to the beach,\u201d wrote McCarthy in the description of the video on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YHrlB9yHrvU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:YouTube channel;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">YouTube channel<\/a>. \u201cI thought it was funny how a few of them kept running even when they hit the beach\u2026The guys ran hard, but they all held on to their drinks. Classic Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">McCarthy entitled his video, \u201cThe fear is REAL, but the DANGER is not. Dolphin must have a sense of humor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At the time, these men were definitely not laughing, however.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">McCarthy wrote that he knew the dolphin was about to swim very close to the men, but \u201cI didn\u2019t expect it to swim right through them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on For The Win: <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/outdoors\/2025\/09\/24\/guys-panic-thinking-shark-just-swam-by-them\/86321665007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Guys panic and race to shore, scared by an intruding sea creature;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Guys panic and race to shore, scared by an intruding sea creature<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six guys holding drinks and enjoying the shallow water off a Florida beach suddenly became panicked when they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[72624,48793,90,27539,72623,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-159497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-florida-beach","tag-michael-mccarthy","tag-science","tag-sea-creature","tag-shallow-water","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}