While a scuba diver was swimming off the coast of Hurghada, Egypt, a remora fish mistook him for a shark and tried to latch onto him in the water.

In a recently released video of the encounter, the diver is alerted to the fish’s presence by the person rolling the camera. The diver looks down, surprised, as the remora swims around him and pecks gently at his diving suit, trying to find a good spot to attach itself to the diver’s body.

The remora kept up with the diver as he swam through the coral reef, persistently trying to find a place on the diver’s body to latch on using the suction cup it has on its head.

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