A SURFER has recorded the moment he came face-to-face with a great white shark after the monstrous predator stalked him off the coast of California. <br /> <br />In the clip, the surfer can be seen paddling on his board with the San Francisco coastline in the background. <br /> <br />He turns to confront a huge wave approaching from the left. <br /> <br />As he does so, a fin appears above the water in a scene befitting of Jaws. <br /> <br />Panicking, the man can be heard breathing heavily as he readjusts to point his board back towards the shore. <br />But thankfully for the surfer, the enormous shark appears to have other things on his mind and opts against having an early lunch. <br /> <br />The clip – recorded on a GoPro camera – was filmed on 12 December and uploaded to YouTube on Boxing Day with the title “great white shark encounter”. <br /> <br />The bloke recording it was clearly shaken by the experience, too. <br /> <br />He wrote: “I was out surfing. When I was paddling towards a wave, I turned on my GoPro. <br /> <br />“Such was my concentration in getting set that the first second I saw the fin, I sort of tried to race it so I could get the second wave of the set. <br /> <br />“Then I stopped and thought about what had just happened.” <br />Onlookers were equally stunned by the footage. <br /> <br />One simply wrote: “Lucky!” <br /> <br />“Brown water situation,” another cheekily added. <br /> <br />While one sceptic said: “Definitely not a great white but a small shark.” <br /> <br />It comes just a day after a great white horrified a family as it circled a boat near Melbourne, Australia.
