- A great white shark has been spotted 50 metres from the shore of a WA beach
- The animal, believed to be five or six metres long, was captured at Fourth Beach
- Filmmaker David Riggs recorded the animal on Saturday circling an 8.5m boat
- It took place close to where Laeticia Brouwer, 17, was killed by a shark in April
A monster great white shark has been spotted just metres from the shore of a popular West Australian beach.
Footage of the five to six-metre long animal was captured by film maker Dave Riggs on Saturday at Esperance’s Fourth Beach.
The area is renowned as a shark hotspot, with 17-year-old Laeticia Brouwer killed by one of the animals at nearby Kelp Beds in April.
A monster great white shark (pictured), believed to be between five and six metres in length, has been spotted just metres from the shore of Western Australia’s popular Fourth Beach in Esperance on Saturday
Mr Riggs posted the footage of the shark on social media following the encounter, calling the beast a ‘big fish’.
He estimated the animal to be longer than five metres long and was swimming just 50 metres from shore, according to The Australian.
Video shows the mammoth shark slowly circling alongside an 8.5 metre boat, leading many to suggest the great white could be as big as six metres in length.
It came just a day after the documentary maker filmed another four-metre shark stalking West Beach off the same coastline.
The area is renowned as a shark hotspot, with 17-year-old Laeticia Brouwer (pictured) killed by one of the animals at nearby Kelp Beds in April.
‘I got a tip off that a shark was out at Westies so I grabbed my drone and put it up,’ Mr Riggs told PerthNow.
‘I reckon it had to be about four metres and it looked as though it had been fed.’
But the new sighting drew concern from local residents, with four sightings of the animals in the area in the last seven days.
‘This is why I stay out of the ocean,’ one person wrote.
While another jokingly commented: ‘Well we do have the best beaches. Seems he/she wants to stay for holidays.
An alert was issued at the beginning of the month after a sperm whale carcass was reported at nearby Two-mile beach, with sharks attracted to the area.