A free diver captured stunning footage of sharks coming right up to him to grab bait.

Diver Bartolomeo Bove filmed the sharks off the coast of Jupiter, Florida on April 1.

He wrote on Newsflare: 'The footage shows the perspective from below of a school of lemon sharks swimming peacefully.

'Then there are close up shots of lemon sharks grabbing the bait and ultimately close up shots of silky sharks breaching through the water surface to grab the bait.'

A diver captured stunning footage of feeding sharks off the coast of Jupiter, Florida

He filmed both lemon sharks and silky sharks feeding on bait. Some of the sharks can tantalizingly close to him

At one point, a silky shark appeared to brush right up against him and went above water to get the bait

At certain points, the sharks appear to brush right up against Bove and goes above water to grab bait. But Bove remains unharmed.

Lemon sharks often travel in packs together and can measure up to 10 feet.

Regarding their life cycle, Marine Biologist Sam Gruber told National Geographic: 'When this group reaches a critical mass, say around February or March, they begin to move out and they move to the lagoon where mating and birthing will take place from April through June.'

The silky shark can measure up to 12 feet and can weigh up to around 800 pounds.

The species is particularly known for its hearing.

Bove, as a free diver, would not have been using a breathing apparatus such as a scuba set while he filming the sharks.

The diver, Bartolomeo Bove (pictured), was free diving when he captured the footage