\n Rebecca Hoibak, 28, was on a stroll along Worthing Pier with a friend when she saw something odd in the sea on Thursday evening, March 26.\n<\/p>\n
\n She said: \u201cThere was something sticking out of the water.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI thought \u2018what\u2019s that\u2019. I thought it was a buoy at first but it was really misshapen.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI got my phone out and zoomed in.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt was moving very slowly and along the coastline.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI was like \u2018come on let’s walk along the promenade and see if we can see what it is\u2019.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n A woman believes she spotted a shark fin near Worthing Pier (Image: Rebecca Hoibak)\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Hoibak, who lives in Newbury but grew up in Goring, thought it could have been a whale or a dolphin with a \u201ctriangular shaped fin\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n She asked her dad to bring his binoculars and after closer inspection, thought it \u201clooked like a shark\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI have heard that there are sharks in our waters anyway,\u201d she added.\n<\/p>\n
\n However, Ms Hoiback said she \u201ccouldn\u2019t be 100 per cent sure\u201d and it \u201cmight have been a seal\u201d, but it \u201clooked quite impressive\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n She said: \u201cIt\u2019s not every day you see something like that.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Sussex Wildlife Trust marine conservation officer Sarah Ward said: “This looks like a seal, probably a grey seal.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The head of a resting grey seal can be mistaken for a shark’s dorsal fin.\n<\/p>\n
\n “This is because when seals are resting at sea, they bob around in the water with only their head or back above the surface.\n<\/p>\n
\n “This is called ‘bottling’.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rebecca Hoibak, 28, was on a stroll along Worthing Pier with a friend when she saw something odd…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-502235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502235","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=502235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}