Snorkeler Films Fish on VacationHorror When She Googles the Species [Video]

A video of a snorkeler who unknowingly swam alongside a titan triggerfish—one of the ocean’s more notorious and aggressive reef inhabitants—has gone viral on TikTok.

The clip was posted by @anita.summer and has amassed more than 1.8 million views since it was posted on March 22.

Text overlaid on the clip says: “Me snorkeling in Mauritius last year without a care in the world.” The video initially shows serene underwater footage featuring fish gliding through turquoise waters.

But the tone of the video shifts quickly as the screen briefly goes black. Another caption overlaid on the clip reads, “Wait … what was that fish?” as the camera later follows a striped fish.

According to the video, the snorkeler later did a search on Google and text overlaid on the clip says, “this is what I found.” The video then shows a series of screenshots from online search results titled “titan triggerfish attack.”

The user …