JAWS OF DEVON?

Photographer spots a ‘25ft shark’ lurking off the coast

JUTTING out of the churning water like a blade, is this the dorsal fin of a mighty shark?

Photographer Tristan Severn- Jones, who spotted the ‘fin’ off Bovisand beach near Plymouth, certainly thinks so.

‘It just came along the beach and was swimming towards the harbour, and then went out to sea,’ he said. ‘It wasn’t in a rush. It was 20, 25ft long.’

What’s more, he believes the fin belongs to a great white – the powerful predator immortalised by the movie Jaws – and not a basking shark, a large but harmless species often encountered off Britain’s coasts.

Mr Severn- Jones, who is a caretaker at Fort Bovisand, said he and his colleagues were left ‘in disbelief’ by the sighting.

However, experts at Plymouth Shark Trust said: ‘While we love to get reports of shark sightings from UK waters and beyond, the absence of a caudal (tail) fin protruding from the water makes it highly unlikely that this object is a shark fin.’