Shark Vs Shark: Ocean giants battle it out in rare Great White Attack

AN Australian diver has captured the extremely rare moment in which a great white shark attacked its own kind. Prepare to be terrified.

‘The moment I captured shark video’

A SYDNEY man has told how he managed to capture rare video footage of a great white shark attack one of its own in waters off South Australia.

The video, by Sydney man Adam Malski, shot off SA’s Neptune Island, has captured the world’s attention.

“It’s absolutely insane — I woke up this morning and the video had over a million hits,” the 33 year-old told The Advertiser.

“I had literally just come up from my 25m dive and dried off and grabbed my camera. I said to the dive master ‘what would happen if a smaller shark got in the way of a bigger one?’ They said they had never seen it before and literally within about six seconds — it happened.”

“I was filming the whole thing trying to keep still and calm because it was so incredible. They’re such an elusive creature so I was so fortunate to be there.”

Despite being nearly 20 feet long, the fish didn’t seem very aggressive as Malski watched from an underwater cage.

That was until a much smaller shark, estimated to be half the size of Gilbert, tried to eat some bait Malski’s crew left floating in the ocean right by their boat.

Just as the bait was taken, Gilbert suddenly emerged and opened his massive jaws as if he was trying to bite the head off the smaller shark.

The sharks brutally attack each other. Picture: Screengrab

While Malski isn’t sure whether Gilbert’s intended target was the shark or the bait, he’s confident that this is one of the only times a great white shark has been caught attacking another on film.

This is the second aquatic phenomenon to be recorded as of late, as a group of killer whales was recently filmed attacking and eating a tiger shark off the coast of Costa Rica.

This article, in part, originally appeared on Elite Daily.