Watch: Great White Shark Chases Panicked Kayakers In Viral Video

A great white shark was caught on camera chasing two fishermen kayaking off the coast of Australia on Sunday. The two men panicked when they saw the massive predator behind them.

One of the men, Ken Gerke, slapped the water with his paddle in an attempt to scare off the shark. The moment Gerke spotted the shark, he pulled out his camera to capture the scenes that unfolded. The shaky video showed the shark's fin cutting through the water toward his boat.

“It’s chasing me,” Gerke is heard saying in a panicked voice on the video recording. “I can hear him coming. Like I'm paddling, and I can hear him thumping away behind me.”

“Holy s---. That’s a big white,” he said to his friend, David Barwise.

“I’ve not seen one that big before,” said Gerke. “He’s been looking at me for a while. Did you see him chasing me?”

The two men somehow managed to escape safely and get back to land. In an interview with Australian news channel 9NEWS, the duo said they were sure the shark wasn’t out to hurt them.

“He was just very curious, and friendly, like a big puppy dog in a way, and was coming over to check us out,” Gerke said.

Humans are not always lucky enough to escape unscathed while encountering sharks in close proximity. Earlier this month, a woman was dragged into crocodile-infested waters by a shark as she tried to feed it during her trip in northwest Australia. The shark which measured 6.6 feet sucked her right index finger into its mouth. A video was released showing the shark pulling the woman into the water before she is rescued by her friends.

In a fatal shark attack in Brazil, a swimmer died after having his penis and part of his leg ripped off by the predator. The incident took place when Jose Ernestor da Silva, 18, was swimming in the deep waters off the Piedade beach near Recife, on Brazil’s northeast coast.