Terrifying moment diver comes face-to-face with 13ft great white shark as beast circles him for agonising five minutes

THIS is the terrifying infinitesimal a diver came face-to-face with a large achromatic shark that kept circling astir him for an agonising 5 minutes.

Tim Ryan shared the nail-biting footage of his brushwood with the immense 13ft beast portion his mate was wrong a cave looking for crayfish.

Ryan and pal Andy Nelson went cray sportfishing successful Coventry Reef, immoderate 34 miles southbound of Perth, Australia.

In hunt of crayfish, Nelson dived into a cave and stayed determination for 5 minutes, unaware that the giant shark was swimming astir his friend, who was debased connected oxygen.

Meanwhile, extracurricular the cave, Ryan was waiting for his mate erstwhile the "bloody large shark" showed up.

Mimicking the celebrated Jaws tune, helium told Australian media: “'Don, don, don, don' virtually and hilariously conscionable popped consecutive into my caput erstwhile I saw the shark popular out.

“'Oh my deity it is Jaws', I thought, and past a 2nd aboriginal I was bloody scared, past a 2nd aft that I thought I person to woody with this and this is however I bash it.

“I did my precise champion to to clasp it down.”

The diver recalled the large achromatic being truthful terrifyingly adjacent helium could person touched it.

“There were a fig of times erstwhile it swam overhead, and besides erstwhile it swam on broadside maine I could person reached retired and touched it,” Ryan said.

“It circled maine for a afloat 5 minutes, and ohio my god, it came successful and made passes astatine maine for the afloat 5 minutes.

“It was lone astatine the precise extremity erstwhile Andy popped retired of the cave, having a 2nd idiosyncratic successful the h2o frightened it off.”

As helium could nary longer spot the shark and his oxygen level was precise low, Ryan described had a "pretty awful" aquatics backmost to the boat.

Ryan's person Nelson swam backmost to find the vessel and recovered the quickest mode back, but Ryan had to support turning astir to spot if helium could spot the shark erstwhile helium mislaid show of it successful the sea.

He said: “Well that’s the constituent erstwhile the adrenaline levels went up a small spot due to the fact that that’s their full gig right, they spell into the acheronian and they sneak astir and they travel smashing up connected you from behind.

“It’s the 1 you don’t spot that you got to truly interest about, particularly erstwhile you decidedly cognize determination is 1 around.

“You conscionable crook astir and it’s coming astatine you astatine 20 knots, you know.”

The brace past burst retired laughing erstwhile yet backmost astatine information connected the boat.

“It was each beauteous exciting, you know, it took astir apt fractional an hr for america to get a bosom complaint and breathing complaint backmost down,” Ryan confessed.

“Andy astatine that signifier had nary thought that I had a afloat 5 minutes with the shark circling me, helium was beauteous amazed astatine the full thing, we conscionable shook our heads for a while.”

The diver went connected to explicate the 5 things 1 should bash erstwhile encountering a shark.

“So evidently you person to not splash oregon flap astir and go charismatic to the animal,” helium said.

“You’ve got to support oculus interaction with it astatine each times oregon it volition travel and sneak up connected you, you person to stay vertical successful the water, past you person to support your breathing and bosom complaint down.

“I deliberation I did each those things.”