Swimmers at a UK beach panicked and fled the water after fearing a shark had been spotted lurking.
Jazmine Preece, 20, was taking a relaxing evening dip at Gyllyngvase Beach in Falmouth, Cornwall, when other beachgoers started waving their arms and shouting at her. They urged the young woman to dash back to shore, alerting her to what they believed was a shark.
But it transpired the animal was in fact a harmless seal, a case of mistaken identity believed to happen relatively often. Jazmine, a student, was with her housemate at the time and described the experience as "scary but exciting".
