'Shark Week' show captures great white leaping nearly 15 feet

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It’s the great “flight” shark.

An astonishing video captures a great white shark leaping an estimated 15-feet in the air — the highest “Air Jaws” breach ever recorded.

“Wooooah! That was unbelievable! Did you see that jump?” shark expert Chris Fallows said as he captured the breach which won him first place on the Discovery channel’s “Air Jaws: Ultimate Breach-Off.”

Fallows used a purpose-built tow camera to capture the spectacular leap in the air by the young male great snatching up a seal-shaped decoy off the coast of South Africa.

Other “Air Jaws” experts put the leap at 10-foot, calling it easily the highest breach recorded for the “Shark Week” show.

“I can’t believe how high it came out — it was just perfect,” Fallows said of his shot off Seal Island.

“That was an incredible image — a photo you dream of. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, that picture is worth a thousand breaches.

“This has to be the ultimate air jaws breach,” he said.

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