Tourist cage diving films close call with great white shark

An American tourist had a terrifying encounter with a great white shark when it sped up and bit into the cage he was diving in.

Spencer Riley was on his honeymoon, cage diving off the coast of Gansbaai in South Africa, when he filmed the shark ramming into their cage, The Sidney Morning Herald reports.

“That should not have happened really, they don’t like the shark to get too close to the cage but there was low visibility and the shark came at the bait extremely fast,” Riley told 9News.

In the video, the great white shark is seen chasing a string of bait. It then comes out of nowhere at high speed and locks its teeth around the cage’s bar, almost touching the divers inside.

“Holy s**t!” one of the divers is heard saying just before the shark swims away.

Riley and the other divers are heard laughing as they come up to the surface of the water after their heart stopping ordeal.

“It was not too scary because it happened so fast, and then it was pretty exhilarating,” Riley told 9News.

Either way, it was still a bit too close for comfort.