Gold Coast shark encounter captured on video

A Gold Coast fisherman has captured a dramatic offshore encounter with a great white shark the size of his boat.

A Gold Coast fisherman has shared incredible footage of a huge great white shark circling his boat off the Glitter Strip.

Rodney Pacitti posted video and images of his close encounter with the estimated 4-5m white pointer, believed to have occurred this week.

“Oh s**t, look at the size of this shark under me – wow!” the professional yotuber told the 451,000 followers of his RoKKiT KiT account.

“That is unbelievably big. Is that a white pointer? I won’t lie, I just got a little nervous.

“Far out, look at the size of that. Holy smoke, he is massive! Wow, look at the size of him, he’s as big as my boat.

“Surely a shark that big isn’t interested in a bait?”

Pacitti also posted an Instagram aerial shot of the shark next to his boat, almost dwarfing it.

“My boat just got a little smaller,” he wrote.

“The feeling of being circled by such an amazing and large shark was pretty surreal … and then the day just got better and better.

“The day was one of those special ones when everything was alive and happening … and I simply had the best time ever.”

Originally published as Gold Coast shark encounter captured on video