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A LATROBE man has come face-to-face with the most fearsome predator in the ocean, a great white shark. Evan Richards and close friend Shaun Scarfe were fishing 20km off Devonport and just five minutes after pulling up at their spot and throwing the berley bucket into the water, the pair noticed a four-metre great white shark next to the boat on Thursday. ``We must have pulled up right on top of the shark because Shaun noticed it after five minutes of us being there,'' Mr Richards said. ``The shark was just off the side of the boat looking at us.'' Sharks of that size are said to weight more than 500kg. Mr Richards said the shark stayed at the boat for more than three hours and he made most of the opportunity filming the event on his GoPro.

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