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Diver comes face-to-face with great white shark as it chomps down on cage

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A video shows the moment the nearly 10-foot-long great white shark chomped down on the bars of the cage, only a few inches from the woman behind.

Images also show the shark opening its jaws inches from the cameraman, right before it turns to investigate the cage instead.

Videographer and Great White Shark Cage Diving Crew Mark Graham (31) from Preston, UK, captured this video in Klein Brak Mossel Bay, South Africa, on a cage diving boat.

The epic video was caught using a GoPro Hero 10 4k 120fps.

Mark frequently takes tourists and shark lovers out to this part of the ocean to experience diving with sharks while still being safely protected behind a cage.

The location where they dive is only a 10-minute boat ride from the shore.

Mark was diving with his customer behind the cage when a great white shark came up to the bars to nudge and bite the cage inquisitively.

The shark circled the cage and bit the cage bars beside the woman, being only inches from her face, before deciding that the cage was no longer exciting enough for him and swam away for his next adventure.

“The great white sharks are super inquisitive, they quite often come to check out the cage and see what all the commotion is,” Mark said.

“They bump and mouth the cage inquisitively and relatively gently which can look scary but it’s never aggressive behaviour.

“If they really wanted to get into the cage they would try a lot harder.

“We do get people who are scared in the beginning but they quickly realise the sharks aren’t interested in them.”

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