Terrifying moment monster shark attacks charter boat during fishing trip: 'He took a liking to the engine'
- Four fishermen have had a close encounter with a shark who bit their boat
- The men were on an annual fishing trip in Coral Bay, WA on Wednesday
- One of the men caught a bronze whaler shark on the end of their line
- The shark headed for their boat's propeller and chomped down on it
Four fishermen have had a frightening encounter with a giant shark who began biting down on their charter boat.
The men were on an annual fishing trip in Coral Bay, Western Australia on Wednesday when the attack happened.
Footage show the three metre bronze whaler shark chomping on the boat's propeller.
A giant shark (pictured) has given four fishermen the shock of their lives after they found it chomping down on their boat
The men were fishing on Coral Bay and had unknowingly caught the shark on the end of one of their lines.
After fighting with it for an hour, the shark emerged from the ocean and headed for the propeller at the back of the charter boat.
The animal then attempted to swallow the propeller as the fishermen tried to figure out what to do next.
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'He took a liking to the engine and he hung on there for a good few minutes,' captain Matt Zen told 9News.
'We started to get a bit worried about how we were going to get him off.'
The shark gave up trying to consume the propeller five minutes later and returned to the deep.
The boat was not damaged from the encounter.
The four men were on an annual fishing trip together - which they call 'Fever Fishing' - in Coral Bay, Western Australia on Wednesday
The bronze whaler shark bit the propeller as the fishermen tried to figure out what to do next. It eventually gave up after five minutes and returned to the sea
It comes just weeks after a fellow Aussie YouTuber had a close call with a tiger shark who bit into his paddleboard.
Brodie Moss, who runs the channel YBS Youngbloods was enjoying the open sea on his paddleboard when he came across a shark chasing a turtle in the water.
It wasn't long before Moss found himself observing the encounter from only a metre away as the turtle and pursuing tiger shark swam underneath his board.
'Tiger shark and this turtle - big showdown, and I'm right in the thick of it,' the West Australian ocean enthusiast can be heard saying as he filmed the chase.
It comes just weeks after fellow West Australian Brodie Moss (pictured) had a close call with a tiger shark who bit into his paddleboard while he was enjoying the open sea
Moss continued to paddle away and swears to himself as the shark closed in on the turtle.
The turtle manages to get away and swims under the YouTuber's paddleboard again with the tiger shark still in pursuit.
'Oh this is intense, they're underneath me!' Moss said. 'I don't know if I'm in the best position right here.'
The tiger shark then turns around, raises its head above the ocean and proceeds to take a bite out of the YouTuber's board.
The Australian YouTuber captured his terrifying encounter with a tiger shark who took a bite out of his board while he was paddleboarding
The momentum from the bite causes Moss to fall off his board into the ocean and drop his GoPro.
It appeared the daredevil was okay following the terrifying encounter as he wrote in the caption of the clip that the incident was not the shark's fault.
'A humbling reminder for myself that it's their ocean and I'm just a visitor! I love sharks and this little accident was not the big fellas [sic] fault,' he wrote.
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