Massive tiger shark interacts with diver

Amazing footage has emerged of what appears to be a "playful" tiger shark allowing a diver to play with it.

The video, shot off the coast of Fiji last year, shows the man hugging and rubbing the large shark's belly.

''It was very close to him and from where I was it looked like it might attack,'' one of the other divers later wrote online.

''Then I realised that it wasn't being aggressive at all. Rather, it was interacting with him,'' he added.