Large shark attacks spear fisherman

This will make you jump!

A terrifying video has emerged of a spear fisherman having an extremely close encounter with a large shark off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa.

The footage, captured in August, shows the creature appearing seemingly out of nowhere right next to the diver, requiring him to ward it off with his speargun.

Luckily, both divers managed to get out of the water unharmed, and the shark swam off.

Describing the incident online, the filmer wrote: "I dived down on the edge down to 19m and when I levelled out on the bottom I looked first to my right, and then as I looked to my left the Great White was right next to me, that could quite easily been the end of me."