Surfer Darren Kaye said he noticed the spinner shark before the collision, but thought nothing of it until the animal came flying at him.

A surfer at a Florida beach was suddenly thrown off his board after an aptly-named spinner shark propelled itself into the air and knocked directly into the man’s head last week in an insane caught-on-video encounter.

A surfer from Florida had an unexpected encounter with an airborne shark. In a video shared on social media, Darren Kaye was captured surfing in the waters of New Smyrna Beach in Florida when he was headbutted by the large fish.