Horrifying photos captured by a father’s drone show a giant shark approaching his children and their friends – drone photos were caught by accident.

Dan Watson brought his drone during their family beach day on June 23. He wanted to get an aerial shot of his three kids playing in the sea. What he didn’t know was that the photo took would also save them from a shark attack.

33-year-old Watson wrote in an Instagram post: “See that dark shadow making its way straight for the shore & those people? That was my view this weekend while flying my Mavic 2 Pro… and oh, 3 of those people are my kids!

“Swipe to see the next image that resulted from my yelling to get out of the water and the unmistakable outline of a shark. Definitely too close of an encounter for my liking!” he added.

Watson, a videographer and photographer, said he usually uses the drone only for work purposes. Fortunately, he decided to bring his drone that weekend.

He told Today: “I yelled ‘Shark!’ and my wife ran down and grabbed them out of the water really quickly. I didn’t know I had captured an image. I showed my wife, and that was moment of, ‘What if we hadn’t flown the drone?’ The shark seemed like it was coming right to shore.”

The almost-encounter occurred around 5:30 pm after the lifeguards went off duty.

“My daughter was pretty amazed and a little nervous,” Watson said. “I think we’re going to work on our sandcastle skills now.”

He also added in his Instagram post: “Thinking my @djiglobal drone is now coming with me to every beach day!!!”

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