Incredible drone footage shows great white shark 50m offshore at Bondi Beach

Incredible drone footage showing a great white shark 50m offshore at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, follows footage of two longboarders paddling straight into a giant swirling bait ball.

Incredible drone footage showing a great white shark 50m offshore at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.

Sydney artist Agnes Bruck has captured drone footage of a great white shark off Bondi Beach.

Ms Brick and some lifeguards jumped in a buggy yesterday and raced to the water’s edge to call swimmers out of the surf as the shark swam just 50m offshore.

The shark footage follows footage of longboard surfers captured paddling into a spectacular natural phenomenon off Bondi Beach, with the pair surrounded by a massive school of fish — also known as a bait ball.

The footage, taken from high above the shoreline, shows the surfers gliding toward the enormous, tightly packed swirl of fish beneath the water’s surface.

“As the name suggests, a bait ball occurs when the predators round up a school of bait and then force it to the surface,” veteran fisherman Al McGlashan told the Daily Telegraph.

Two people on longboards in among a school of fish just of the beach at Bondi. Picture: Rohan Kelly

“Trapped against the top baitfish defend themselves by packing into a tight whirling mass as they try to get to the centre away from the circling predators — if you are in the middle, your mate is going to go first.

“It’s a constant battle to get into the centre — so much so that the bait creates its own vortex, a tornado of fish.”

The surfers making the most of the natural phenomenon. Picture: Rohan Kelly

The surfers completely surrounded by the fish. Picture: Rohan Kelly

Bait balls typically form in response to larger fish, dolphins, sharks or even birds hunting from above.

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