Two fishermen have captured the moment a great white shark came up to take a bite of their boat off the Sunshine Coast.
Joe Cook and Jayden Grace first spotted the five-metre shark as it circled their boat off Mooloolaba on Saturday.
Grace told 9News the shark stayed close to their boat the entire time they fished for snapper between Caloundra and Mooloolaba.
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“It just circled the boat for probably half an hour to an hour the whole time we fished there,” he said.
“I was a little bit worried at first but yeah, it was pretty crazy.”
The frightening encounter took place about midday.
Grace and Cook had the feeling they weren’t alone and captured footage of the great white as it approached their boat.
“[I] threw the GoPro in the water and I was holding it and he must have spotted it and just come straight towards it,” Grace said.
“Gonna be a great story to tell, that’s for sure.”
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The great white was swimming with fish when it approached the boat.
It tried to take a bite from the side but wasn’t able to penetrate the vessel, instead leaving it with scuff marks and scratches.
“There it is there,” Cook was heard saying on the video.
“Holy, that is huge.”
“It just bit my boat, it just bit my boat,” Grace added.
“I think it’s time to leave.”
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The great white had a swollen belly, appearing to be quite pregnant.
“She really wasn’t aggressive at all apart from the obvious curious nibble,” Cook said on social media.
“I was more worried about how she would react when we hooked the cobia.”
Cook added that the “absolutely incredible” encounter was the “best experience I’ve had on the Sunshine Coast”.
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