Spine-tingling moment a paddleboarder comes face-to-face with a giant sea snake

A paddleboarder has captured the terrifying moment a ‘sexually frustrated’ sea snake tried to slither onto his board in the middle of the ocean.  

Brodie Moss, an Australian filmmaker and ocean enthusiast, uploaded the spine-tingling video of the curious sea snake to TikTok on Tuesday.

‘Sea snakes normally avoid humans but at this time of year they become very active, sexually frustrated and potentially aggressive as they look for a mate,’ he explained. 

Brodie Moss, a filmmaker and ocean enthusiast, uploaded the spine-tingling video of the curious sea snake (pictured) to TikTok on Tuesday

In the footage the two-metre serpent surfaces from the depths of the ocean floor and makes a bee-line for Brodie’s paddleboard. 

‘He’s just come straight at me again. How intimidating is this,’ he says. 

‘Look at this. It’s a big old dog.’ 

In one heart-racing moment the giant snake places its head on the board before slithering away as quickly as it appeared.

A clearly exhilarated Brodie turns the camera back on himself and explains why the sea creature came a little too close for comfort. 

‘What he’s doing, this time of year they’re looking for a mate, and these old dogs, they don’t have the advantage anymore like the young ones,’ he says. 

‘So they get so so frustrated. If you’re ever going to be bitten that’s the exact time you’ll get bit.’

In one heart-racing moment the giant snake place its head on the side of the board before slithering away as quickly as it appeared

TikTok users from all over the world were quick to share their thoughts on the terrifying interaction, with the video racking up over 14 million views. 

‘Now that I think about it it’s crazy there are snakes that live exclusively in the sea,’ one user said. 

‘The thirteenth reason not to visit Australia,’ another joked. 

‘This is the most Australian thing I’ve seen in a minute,’ a third said. 

Sea snakes are front-fanged serpents that live in warm coastal waters in the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans and come up to the surface to breathe. 

According to Live Science, male sea snakes do become sexually frustrated and can sometimes mistake humans for mates due to the animals’ poor vision. 

The serpents have been observed performing elaborate sequences in the water often used during courtship with a female. 

While the reptiles are venomous and potentially lethal to humans, experts say divers are at no increased risk swimming with the snakes during mating season. 

The olive sea snake (pictured) is the most common sea snake found along the northern coast of Australia and nearby islands and has a bit that is venomous and sometimes fatal to humans