Video: Five-foot shark spotted swimming in River Stour The creature was spotted and filmed on Sunday by Jody Gibbons, who was out enjoying a stroll with his father. The marketing executive said he made sure he got footage as he feared his friends would not believe he'd seen a shark in the small village of Cattawade in Essex. Mr Gibbons, of Lawford, Essex, spent more than an hour with his college lecturer father watching the shark, filming footage in which the shark can clearly be seen swimming past in shallow water.