'Not again': WA kayakers survive close encounter with huge great white

A group of Western Australian oversea kayakers has travel face-to-face pinch a five-metre awesome achromatic shark for nan 2nd clip successful 4 days.

The springiness kayakers rafted together for information while nan beast circled them for 15 minutes today, arsenic a rescue chopper and adjacent boats raced to thief them.

Tonight, they were pinching themselves they lived to show nan communicative - twice.

After mounting disconnected this greeting from Hillarys Dog Beach successful Perth's north, astir 10am they were approached by nan monster lurking beneath nan surface.

Allen Halsy was nan first to spot nan apex predator approaching.

"I conscionable looked retired of nan area of my oculus and I saw thing and looked and nan shark came successful really accelerated and it's fin was retired of nan h2o and it was going consecutive to nan backmost of their boat," he told 9News.

The aforesaid kayaking nine was retired paddling retired connected Saturday erstwhile an almost identical business occurred, pinch a different awesome achromatic circling them successful a akin spot.

"It was a different 1 because this was a tagged shark and I deliberation it was a small spot smaller arsenic good and I conscionable said 'oh no, not again'," chap kayaker Richard Lailey told 9News.

Lailey said they didn't really cognize what nan shark's intentions were.

"He carried connected circling america and circling america and he swam nether america a fewer times arsenic well," he said.

It's an incredibly uncommon arena galore will ne'er acquisition successful a lifetime, fto unsocial doubly successful 4 days.

"When you're conscionable sitting successful those small flimsy kayaks retired there, you're really astatine very debased h2o level [and] erstwhile that shark's coming up, you could conscionable astir touch it," Halsy said.

A shark informing was still successful spot for nan state's bluish beaches coming from Scarborough to Ocean Reef.

There person been 11 tagged sharks and sightings betwixt Ocean Reef and Waterman's Bay since Saturday, pinch experts urging be aware and informing that vessels for illustration kayaks connection small protection.

It's not nan first clip successful WA awesome whites person taken an liking successful paddlers.

In 1997 Brian Sierakowski and John Hanrahan encountered a shark that attacked their surf skis disconnected Cottesloe Beach.

Martin Kane's h2o trade was torn isolated successful Mullaloo by a awesome achromatic successful 2012.

Today's kayakers said they were wholly undeterred by nan 2 adjacent encounters and planned to get backmost connected nan h2o this weekend.

"These experiences travel successful threes, truthful I'll spot you down present astatine nan weekend," Lailey said.

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