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Caught on camera. guad venegas has more. >> reporter: as beachgoers soak up the sun this holiday weekend, there's been a threat lurking off the coast of florida. four shark encounters in the last few months. >> it was really really painful. >> reporter: 12-year-old magnolia woodhead was swimming in cocoa beach when a shark took a bite of her right leg. >> i pushed it away because it hurt so bad. >> reporter: she was rushed to the hospital where she received 50 stitches. luckily she's expected to make a full recovery. and just last weekend, this terrifying scene caught on camera. >> keep coming...

I was made of. >> no one has ever tried it. many doubt it can even be done. >> all the best big wave riders tell us, you know, i don't think this is achievable. not something that someone can go and do. >> to pull this off, visser must paddle out alone, with sharks patrolling underneath. to top it off, he's none too fond of being in the dark. >> if i want to be less afraid of the dark, how am i going to do that? >> to get prepared for paddling at night alone, the team flies him and his surfboard offshore in a helicopter and drop him at sunset to sink or swim in his fears. >> they put me out to...

>> all the best big wave riders sort of tell us, you know, i don't think this is achievable. not something that someone can go and do. >> to pull this off, visser must paddle out alone, with sharks patrolling underneath. to top it off, he's none too fond of being in the dark. >> if i want to be less afraid of the dark, how am i going to do that? >> to get prepared for paddling at night alone, his team flies him and his surfboard offshore in a helicopter and drop him at sunset to sink or swim in his fears. >> they put me out to sea and made me paddle in for four hours. like way out to sea. for ...