Adon Samoilenko got too close for comfort with a great white shark while fishing in South Australia
Adon Samoilenko got too close for comfort with a great white shark while fishing in South Australia
A fisherman got too close for comfort with a great white when the monster shark rammed his boat and took a bite of his motor in deep waters.

The four metre man-eater had been circling Adon Samoilenko's fishing boat off the coast of O'Sullivan's Beach in Adelaide before it set upon the vessel with its jaws.

The veteran fisherman and his fellow angler decided to cut their losses and call it a day when the predator descended back to the depths.

'We knew it was time to go. He's been hanging around all day but the moment he rammed into us that the alarm bells,' Mr Samoilenko told Daily Mail Australia.

He said the shark had been lurking around their boat all day, scaring off their would-be catches.

'It was slow going all day, the fish took fright as soon as he turned up.'


He said he suspects it was another boat that sent the predator into a rage.

'There was another boat nearby that disturbed the boat with his motor. Next thing he just flipped, breached right out of the water. That's when he came for us.'

Mr Samoilenko said it was his first brush with a great white in nearly 20 years fishing in those waters.