THE TERRIFYING moment a group of teenagers encountered a crocodile while swimming in tourist hotspot has been caught on camera.
Osmar Ochoa was swimming with a group of friends in Tulum, Mexico, when he came across the deadly beast.
He and his friends were happily swimming around the a cenote when someone spotted something lurking beneath the clear water’s surface.
A young man is heard shouting, raising the alarm to the rest of the group.
Nail-biting footage then shows Osmar edging closer toward the wild animal.
His underwater camera captures heart-stopping footage of the crocodile as it decides where to head next.
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In a rare stroke of luck, the crocodile decides to calmly pass the group and swims off.
Osmar said he was terrified to realise how close he was to danger.
He said: “I was more than scared, I was shocked, my friends were even more scared than me”.
The video, shared to TikTok on 20 April, has racked up over nine million views and over 752,000 likes.
Viewers were left shocked at the footage of the once-in-a-lifetime experience.
In the comments one TikToker wrote: “I would NEVER swim in that water [sic].”
A second person said: “Hell noooo.”
Someone else wrote: “Nope lol”.
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A fourth social media user wrote: “Explain to me why you are so calm.”
Someone else commented: “I’m dying, they really were lucky, where I live is infested and they have already eaten many people including children.”
