“We had been watching him several minutes come in from out pretty far,“ beachgoer Chris Barron told CNN. One man was just a few feet away from the bear as it started to swim up and shake the water off its fur. Florida resident Steffani Saddler was on a boat returning from scuba diving when she too spotted the unfamiliar figure in the water. “We couldn’t tell what it was so we turned the boat to get closer and that’s when we realized it was a bear,” Saddler told CNN. “I’ve lived here my whole live and have never seen anything like that before,“ she told CNN.

Source: CNN June 12, 2023 12:36 UTC