Fisherman films great white shark biting boat
Fisherman Tony Didio has captured a thrilling encounter with a great white shark off the coast of Nambucca Heads in NSW.
Tony filmed the shark circling the boast as he was fishing for bait with his two sons Jason and Michael and their friends.
They were amazed to see the shark move in and take a bite at the rear of the boat.
“I was standing at the back of the boat myself near the outboard filming him on my phone, and I thought geez I better move my toes, I could lose them,” Tony said.
“There was no way I wanted to jump in the water with that thing".
“He was more interested in chewing the back of my boat than the lines we had in the water."
“We were just fishing for some livies to take fishing when the white came out of the blue.”
Tony said the encounter with the shark happened about a kilometre from the entrance to Nambucca Heads Beach in about seven metres of water.
Fishing out of a 5-metre long boat, Tony estimated the shark to be roughly 2.5 metres long.
“I reckon I’ve spent 40 years fishing and seen three great white sharks in that time, never a great white in such shallow water... that’s quite alarming,” Tony said.
Tony said the crew finished the day by getting a nice catch of snapper and parrot fish.