This is the incredible moment that a great white shark swam up to the side of a boat holding a crew of filmmakers – and started taking chunks out of it.

Nature filmmakers MaxAnimal were filming for their YouTube channel off the coast of South Africa when the shark attacked their boat and started chewing.

Great white sharks can grow to 21ft in length and are the ocean’s most formidable predators, with no rivals other than the orca. They are also responsible for more unprovoked attacks on humans by far than any other shark species.


So what does the MaxAnimal crew do? They get as close to the shark as possible and start taking pictures.