CARTERET COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - It’s not uncommon for divers to find shark teeth, but a 5.8 inch megalodon tooth is a different story.

“I was like thank you lord! Man, I’m like down there losing my mind. Nobody around me but the first to see it, but yeah, it was incredible,” scuba instructor Christian Corbitt said.

Corbitt is a professional scuba instructor who lives in Morehead City, but he decided to try out fossil hunting a few months ago and now he’s hooked.

“It’s just incredible. I mean, you’re holding a piece of history, a piece of a fossilized animal that no longer exists,” Corbitt said.

It was day two of fossil hunting off the Wilmington coast when Corbitt dove into the ocean to see what was below.

“I’m swimming along the line, we lay a line across the bottom so that we can nav

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