White pointer circles boat for hours

A white pointer shark circles a boat and bites its motor off West Beach, Adelaide. Courtesy Youtube/Brz Boxer

A BOATIE has captured vision of a white pointer shark circling his boat and having a chomp at its engine propeller off West Beach.

Woodville West fisherman Clayton Arnold captured the incredible vision while fishing about 4km off of West Beach on Saturday morning.

It shows the shark repeatedly but calmly circling the boat and at one point even having a gentle chomp on the engine propeller.

Mr Arnold said he and a friend had ventured out to a regular fishing spot about 6.30am, only to be joined by the creature.

"I normally put my GoPro camera down in the water to the bottom to check what is down there," he said.

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"I pulled it back up and we saw this."

Mr Arnold said the shark would circle a few times then disappear for a while before returning.

"He would leave for a few minutes and then he would come back," he said. "He stayed with us up until about midday.

"When he wasn't there, we were catching fish, so we actually got a good feed of fish as well."

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Mr Arnold said they never felt threatened by the shark and he was even comfortable putting his camera in the water with his hand to get some of the vision.

"I really like sharks," he said. "I don't want to make it sound like it was menacing or for people to be scared by it ... it was just intrigued."

The white pointer is one of several sharks that have been spotted off the coast of Adelaide and Fleurieu Peninsula beaches over the past few days.

On Saturday, the Westpac Surf Lifesaving helicopter herded four sharks close to shore at Normanville back out to sea.

Todd Robinson says he didn't believe 'all the hype' about sharks until he almost became the latest victim of an attack while diving for crayfish off Hillarys yesterday morning.

A 2m-long shark was also spotted only 20m off Maslin Beach on Saturday.

On Sunday afternoon, a further three sharks were also spotted close to shore at Normanville and another at Moana .

Surf Lifesaving South Australia general manager of commercial operations Shane Daw said the sightings were to be expected at this time of year.

"We know from our years of being involved and our research we are going to get fish moving through the water at this time of year," he said.

"We are out looking for them now too so the number of sightings we are seeing is not a surprise."

Mr Daw said sharks were likely to continue to be spotted in these areas while fish moved through.

In the event of a shark sighting, swimmers are advised to leave the water as quickly and calmly as possible.

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