Terrifying moment giant shark clamps its jaws around a diver's head in surprise attack off paradise island

Terrifying footage has captured the infinitesimal a monolithic shark clamped its jaws astir a diver's caput successful a astonishment onslaught disconnected a paradise island.

The clip, filmed successful the idyllic Maldives, shows a swimmer innocently drifting successful the bluish waters portion facing the camera.

But retired of nowhere, and with shocking speed, the shadowy fig of an tremendous shark appears down the diver.

In a heart-stopping moment, the sneaky shark swiftly opens its jaws earlier engulfing the diver's head.

For a fewer seconds, the swimmer's caput remains successful the rima of the predator arsenic it shakes the oversea explorer astir successful an effort to gnaw disconnected their head.

The diver tin beryllium seen kicking their feet and spreading their arms, desperately trying to fly the bare shark.

Miraculously, the swimmer made a fortunate flight arsenic the beastly food unlocked its jaws and swam away, freeing the diver of the chilling attack.     

The diver past scrambled distant to the aboveground of the water, waving their hands astatine the brave cameraman successful a informing for them to fly the country too.

Both swimmers could beryllium seen rapidly moving their mode up and retired of the unsafe waters, until the hair-raising footage ends.

The Maldives is known for its achromatic sandy beaches, turquoise lagoons and coral reefs, but it is besides location to astir 30 types of shark, according to Samudra Maldives. 

These see scalloped hammerhead sharks, tiger sharks, whale sharks, and grey reef sharks - it is not instantly wide which taxon of shark appeared successful the footage.

Many hotels and resorts connected the land connection guests the swimming with sharks acquisition arsenic a guided activity.

'Most sharks adjacent Maldives are friendly, and incidents of shark attacks are rare. But encounters with Maldives tiger sharks and caregiver sharks mightiness crook deadly if precautions aren’t taken,' the vacation website explains.

Diving and snorkelling with the animals is besides a fashionable enactment among tourists, but 'not each affable sharks aquatics adjacent the surface, truthful you’ll request to publication an acquisition allowing you to dive successful the sea, and research sharks similar grey reef sharks oregon whitetip reef shark'.

It comes aft a surfer's limb was wholly severed during a vicious shark onslaught successful the waters of Hawaii earlier this month.

Kenji Nonoka, 61, was surfing disconnected Waiehu Beach Park successful Maui but arsenic helium sat connected his committee successful the wide waters astir 7am, a shark swam up and spot his limb - severing it from the genu down.

The surfer, who was inactive alert aft the attack, was capable to aquatics backmost to enactment with the assistance of others earlier the Maui Police Department responded to the scene.

But instantly aft his surgery, helium was said to person told his loved ones, 'I inactive emotion the ocean!' according to his GoFundMe page.

In September, a woman died after being attacked by a shark connected a British-flagged catamaran arsenic she was rushed to a infirmary successful the Canary Islands.

She was said to person had her limb bitten disconnected by the carnal arsenic she was connected a catamaran successful planetary waters.

And successful August, a teenager was decapitated successful a fearfulness shark attack aft helium went swimming disconnected the Jamaican coast.

Jahmari Reid's assemblage was reportedly recovered with his caput missing and his near limb bitten off.