Sunboy - White Pointer Shark attack on Sunboy

Well it could have been, the @*&^@! thing was so close to the boat!!! We were sailing along this morning about 11.30am and Debs called out that she could see a whale coming down a wave about 60 metres of our port stern. She said she could see something big and that she saw quite a large dorsal fin. Well that whale did turn out to be big and so did the dorsal fin, except of course it wasnt a whale it was a 4 metre great white shark. Everyone initally rushed to the cockpit to see the whale but were transfixed as the great white came up along side the boat, literally about five metres from the port side. It just seemed to glide past us, about half a metre under the surface and at the time we were doing about 6.5 knots. Once it got past our midships, it took a downward turn and disappearead in the deep dark blue sea. I must say, I think everyone's adrenaline levels took a leap northward for a while and all day after that, everyone made doubly sure there life lines were securely attached when they had to leave the cockpit for any reason. We have seen lots of sharks scuba diving in various parts of the world but never have we ever seen a great white in the wild and to see one so close was incredible.