VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – Police bodycam footage shot on Monday shows deputies helping to free a giant ocean sunfish that had become stuck in shallow water on the Atlantic shores of central Florida.

The oarfish, commonly referred to as the "doomsday fish," was captured on video as it approached beachgoers at Playa El Quemado in Mexico. It's rare to see the species in shallow waters.

A swimmer got stuck on a beach in Florida and sheriffs' deputies had to come to the rescue, but it wasn't as easy as helping a person out of the water. A Mola Mola or an ocean sunfish, was lodged ...

Journal Reference: Mark Ablowitz, Douglas Baldwin. Nonlinear shallow ocean-wave soliton interactions on flat beaches. Physical Review E, 2012; 86 (3) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.86.036305 ...