TERRIFYING video captures the moment a great white shark leaps out of the water just feet away from screaming boaters.
The enormous beast is seen sinking its teeth into a large tuna fish, leaving the churned-up water filled with blood, in astonishing footage filmed off the coast of Australia.
Isabella Sesto via StoryfulAn Australian woman shared her dramatic close encounter with a great white shark[/caption]
Isabella Sesto via StoryfulThe tuna fish was torn to shreds by the shark’s powerful teeth.[/caption]
The camerawoman was fishing when she reeled in a large tuna fish, but a nearby shark wanted the impressive catch for itself.
Isabella Cesto, caught the wild encounter on film as the massive shark sunk its jaws into the tuna, leaving clouds of blood in the water following the dramatic encounter near Cape Jaffa in South Australia, some 150 miles south of Adelaide.
After an hour and a half of trying to reel the fish in, Cesto finally was able to get her tuna on board, as reported by FOX Weather.
However, the shark had torn the fish to shreds.
In the background of the video, Cesto can be heard saying, “I’m happy but I’m sad. I don’t know what to feel. This jerk, this big great white’s come in, bit half my tuna off, and it’s my first tuna. I’ve been targeting them for years.”
An expert told FOX Weather that the tuna’s flailing movement on the line was likely what captured the shark’s attention.
In an Instagram post, Cesto expressed her excitement for finally catching her first Barrel Bluefin Tuna.
She called the hour-and-a-half-long struggle “the most epic experience of [her] life.”
However, this is far from the first frightening shark encounter for visitors to the Australian coast.
In May of this year, a surfer was brutally mauled to death by a shark at Walkers Rock, nearly 400 miles away from Adelaide.
Only two weeks earlier, a shark attacked a boy while snorkeling in Western Australia.
The boy survived, however, not all have been as lucky.
In February, teenager Stella Berry was mauled to death by a shark after jumping off her jet ski as she tried to swim with dolphins in a river.
According to Tracking Sharks, there have been a total of seven shark attacks in Australia this year, with two being fatal.
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