When a person is competing in a professional sport, they are often worried about being defeated by their opponents than being attacked and defeated by a giant shark, but on Sunday during the J-Bay Open on Jeffreys Bay in South Africa Australian surfer Mick Fanning had to try and deal with both.

Check this out and watch as he was sitting on his surf board in between rides, splashes can be seen in the water around Fanning, and then you see the shark appear as it take him off of his board.