'Shark' spotted off UK coast as locals promise they'll 'never go in the sea again'

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shark swimming close to a beach in the UK.The footage posted on Twitter shows a frightening fin moving menacingly in the sea at East Preston beach in West Sussex.Social media users quickly responded to the startling clip - some with humour, a fair few in terror and others declaring scepticism.READ MORE: Two blokes claim they were denied nightclub entry because they were WelshThe video lasts for 51 seconds and has been viewed almost 10,000 times, with an accompanying voice saying: "It's definitely a dolphin fin or a shark, not a seal."Not many people, judging by the comments left underneath, would have been willing to take a swim out to check which it might be.Two people simply exclaimed "Yikes!" and "Blimey!

It's Jaws!" Another commenter insisted: "Well that's me never going in the sea again then."And a third admitted: "It's really quite unnerving".Plenty of others, though, replied in a more light-hearted manner with one person joking, "Going to need a bigger boat" in reference to a famous line from the Hollywood blockbuster Jaws. To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.There were also video clips posted of the legendary cinematic shark wreaking its havoc during Steven Spielberg's 1975 classic, whilst another typed: "Ner-num…ner-num…ner-numnuh….nernumnuh….DUDDLEAAAH!!! (chills)" in an effort to recreate the terrifying music that preceded every Jaws attack in the movie.Some, though, did not want to believe their own eyes, felt they had been fooled by a spot of camera trickery or reckoned there was an alternative explanation for what had been filmed.But suggestions such as "it's old pipe" and a "sleeping seal most likely" seemed less credible, given that the fin is.