Rare encounter with great white shark for divers in Australia

[Derelict]

Facebook video

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10155074649094301&id=363623854300

That's my buddy in the video. She went diving on Sunday and had a once in a lifetime experience.

 

[tilikum]

I'm jealous.

 

[drrich2]

Congratulations! Great as it must be after the fact, if I were in the water and it 'hung around,' I think I'd be obsessed about 'What's it sticking around for? What does it want?'

Richard.

 

[ScubaWithTurk]

What an amazing surprise. I look forward to diving with Great Whites one of these days.

 

[arcticat99]

cool

 

[jjwebster]

I was recently diving in Port Stephens (also Australia but further North of said location), on our second dive a few of our group saw a "juvenile" Great White (4m - 5m), it was a fleeting encounter as apparently they are quite skittish.

The DM had mentioned before the dive that sightings were not that uncommon as there is a nursery offshore - we thought he was joking!

I was pretty annoyed to have missed out....