Around 80 hungry sharks erupted into a feeding frenzy at a popular surfing spot, terrifying footage shows.
Donnie Johnson was fishing in Surf City, North Carolina when dozens of the deadly predators began thrashing in the water.
A school of blacktip, tiger and sand sharks were seen in his video hunting in the water.
They arrived hours after surfers were enjoying the waves but thankfully nobody appeared to be in the ocean at the time.
In the video, the sharks splash out of the water as they feast on fish - including the 66-year-old's own catch. Fortunately, it appeared no surfers were in the water at the time the sharks sunk their teeth into their food.
The fisherman said: "I was catching virginia mullets and then first the sharks showed up, just about four of them, and then a whole school of menhavens came up - after that it was history.
"Then 80 or more sharks just showed up and they just had themselves a feast with all those menhaven.
"Some was blacktip, some were sand sharks, some were tiger sharks, there were all different kinds of shark."
His footage, which was shot from the pier, shows the water turned white with the teeming mass of churning sharks in the water.
The feeding frenzy is so intense that some sharks even appear to be attacking each other.
Mr Johnson said the maelstrom continued for two whole hours.
He said: "On the video you can see how they were splashing in the water and that was just on one side, on the other side of the pier they were doing the same thing."
The retiree and regular visitor to the pier called it a history-making moment for Surf City.
"I fish there year round," he said. "It was the first time that many sharks showed up. We'd seen one or two sharks, but not that many. It made history."
Thankfully, the time of day meant there was nobody in the water.
Mr Johnson said: "In my younger age I got in the water, now I go fishing and that's about it.
"I didn't even want to think about anybody getting in the water.
"One grabbed my virginia mullet and the hook and I lost both of them.
"I had to either quit fishing or keep trying, so I waited until they started dissipating because the menhaven fish - when they started getting scared - they were going into hiding.
"Everybody was saying it's the first time it's ever happened," he added
"It was very exciting. I'm just glad that I was there to capture it so I could show somebody else."
