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Nick Ericksen had a frustrating encounter with a sea otter while surfing in Santa Cruz earlier this week. The heavily pregnant female decided to commandeer his board after he got separated from it after riding a wave. The otter was became very attached to the surf board and even chased Nick back to shore after regained control of it.

Nick's friend recorded to whole incident and shared it on his Instagram account @cum_quat. WARNING curse words can be heard in parts of the video.