Heart-stopping moment an off-duty officer saves a young boy boogie-boarding in the ocean from a shark swimming ‘dangerously close’ in Florida

UK Daily Mail ^ | July 19, 2020 | Lauren Edmonds

[C19fan]

An off-duty police officer in Florida heroically jumped into the Atlantic ocean to pull a boy on a boogie board to safety after a shark was seen swimming 'dangerously close.' The harrowing moment began when Cocoa Beach Police Officer Adrian Kosicki and his wife were taking a stroll with their dog near the pier on Thursday evening. Footage shared by Cocoa Beach Police & Fire shows a shark fin slicing through the water's surface as it swims towards the young boy.

[C19fan]

Damn...I am grabbing my surf fishing gear and heading down I-95. I did surf fish at Cocoa Beach once. I caught no sharks just Kingfish and Catfish.

[SES1066]

PETA would be moaning that he denied the shark a meal, “Shark Lives Matter”!

Choppy video at the Daily Mail website but that shark was very close! Kudos to that officer!

[ought-six]

I will not click to any Daily Mail link, as it is so overloaded with crap that it locks up my desktop.

[Whatever Works]

Cocoa Beach is my home town! So proud of our cops! Not so proud of the idiot cell phone filmers who saw it and did NOTHING, waiting for a tragedy.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Ha! I watched the video looking to see how big this "shark" was. Eventually a fish did show up. It looked like a 3 foot dogfish. Technically related to sharks but hardly a "heart stopping" or "harrowing" moment.

[freedom1st]

We use to travel from Boca Raton to Cocoa Beach to go surfing in my youth. Cocoa had the best surfing on Fla. Atlantic coast. Remember one of the first Ron Jon Surf shops in Cocoa.

[Monterrosa-24]

Cocoa Beach is a treasure and it is an inexpensive place to stay. Before Ron Jon became such a big chain, I remember the not-so-big surf shop at Cocoa Beach. It even had a hippie head shop inside and was just a block from a sorry bar called THE BOOBIE TRAP. It is more of a family friendly place today.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I’m from Jax. Did you ever surf sharkpit which is very near Cocoa? It used to be a hotspot because the waves got pretty big due to the shoreline being a fairly sharp cove.

[freedom1st]

I don’t remember surfing sharkpit. It was back in the late 60’s when we traveled to Cocoa.

[Georgia Girl 2]

That's when sharkpit was the hotspot. It was somewhat dangerous because of the way the waves break. I used to go hang out but never tried to surf there. Jax Beach was as crazy as I ever got. 😀