A DEADLY Great White is lurking off some of our most popular beaches — and could attack at any moment, a shark expert claims.

Graeme Pullen says he has been pursuing the man-eater off the south coast for the past two years.

4 Fears are growing that bathers could be pulled under by a real life Jaws Credit: Getty Images

But the fishing journalist has now gone public with his fears because he feels Brit beach-goers need to be warned, especially as the summer holidays approach, reports the Daily Mirror.

Mr Pullen said: “Make no mistake, this is the big one.

“This is surely Britain’s first Great White - and it’ll be coming back this summer."

He claims the blood-thirsty killer has been sighted repeatedly off Hayling Island, Hants, for two years.

And he fears it could been returning to rich hunting grounds and gorging on seals and fish in shallow water.

He added: “The danger is this shark will eventually stumble across someone in a wet-suit and mistake them for a seal.”

4 Graeme Pullen believes the Great White is hunting seals close to the shore in water only feet deep Credit: BNPS.co.uk

Mr Pullen has been tracking sharks British waters for 40 years and also tags them for the US National Marine Fisheries Service

He said: "This is no basking shark, no porbeagle, blue or mako. Others have also given details of their sightings and this is not miles out to sea but close to shore, mostly hunting in the estuaries.”

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It's claimed the Great White is being drawn to the rich hunting grounds of British waters

The latest threat to British bathers comes after an eight-foot shark was spotted off a Majorcan beach at the weekend sending hundreds of holidaymakers running from the sea.

The blue shark, thought to have been wounded, came close to the shore at three popular beaches before it was dragged from the water by lifeguards and put down.

A blue shark was blamed for an attack on a swimmer off a popular Ibiza holiday beach last month which left him needed emergency hospital treatment.

The Spanish pensioner was treated for a two-inch gash to his hand just over a week ago after being bitten off the beach at Playa d’en Bossa.

4 The 8ft blue shark sparked mayhem in the waters of Majorca at the weekend Credit: Tim Prottey_Jones

But while the thought of a shark dragging you under may send shivers down your spine the poor old Great White may be under threat itself from killer whales.

A fourth member of the species has been found washed up dead on a beach believed to be the latest victim of killer whales off the South African coast.

Scientists say all four great whites have had their livers taken out with “surgical precision”.

Experts believe killer whales could be feasting on the organ which is rich in a compound called squalene.

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