A crew of keen anglers was forced to hold on when a massive shark decided to nudge and nibble at their boat while they were fishing off the state’s South-East coast. The great white, estimated at about 4.5 metres long, spent about 10 minutes circling the boat while occasionally biting the motor and nudging the vessel, causing it to rock back and forth. After staring at the shark in disbelief for several minutes, fisherman Andrew Russell managed to capture part of the close encounter on his phone, posting it to Facebook.