'Hungry' Great White Shark Bites Florida Woman’s Boat And Its Motor [Watch]

A Florida woman had a fin-nominal experience while adrift on a boat in waters just off the Tampa coast when a large great white shark approached the vessel and took a bite out of a motor.

Erika Almond, of St. Petersburg, and her several friends were fishing in the Gulf of Mexico about 65 miles southwest of Tampa Bay when the shark approached their boat, according to Fox 13.

Almond’s 34-foot sea vessel named "Offshore Therapy" had a chunk bitten off by the great white shark, which perhaps implied that the shark was hungry. "It was breathtaking. It came right up and took a chunk out of one of our motors," Almond told the outlet.

"It's not unusual, we expect sharks when you're fishing and chumming like that but what made this unique was it was about a 14- to 16-foot great white shark. We couldn't believe what we were seeing," Almond continued.

Almond described the experience as one of the 'coolest experiences' she has had. She wrote in the post that the 14-to-16-foot shark curiously circled her boat before biting its motor.

"Seriously one of the coolest experiences I’ve ever had offshore! We had a 14-16 foot Great White shark circle our boat, bite the motors and the boat, and roll on its back for about two to three hours! 65 miles offshore in the Gulf. No words..." the post read.

The post accompanied the video of the encounter, which showed the shark cruising near the boat and making multiple attempts to bite it. In one of the photos that the post had, one of Almond’s friends is seen extending his arm to touch the shark.

"The white sharks are migrating right now to Florida’s warmer waters and their population is definitely growing, which is good for the ocean," Dr. Robert Hueter, director of the Center for Shark Research at MOTE, told Fox 13.

Adult male sharks can, at the most, be 11 to 13 feet in length. Florida waters are a magnet to great white sharks during winters due to the warmer temperature. Due to the sharks making their annual migration into the Florida waters, shark sightings become increasingly common.