Chris Cottrell, 43, was feeding animals at Doniford Farm Park in Watchet on Friday, 1 August, when he noticed something unusual over the water. Pulling out his phone, he captured incredible footage of a 'waterspout', towering over the Channel and whipping water high into the air and into the clouds. The narrow, whirling column of air and water mist – which forms over the sea during showery, unsettled conditions – appeared just above the horizon. A waterspout is a narrow, rotating column of air that forms over water and connects a cloud to the sea or a lake. The rising air then tightens this spin into a visible vortex, known as a "fair weather" or "non-tornadic" waterspout.