The frightening footage was captured by a drone camera as pro-boarder Matt Wilkinson, 32, practised at Ballina in New South Wales, Australia. He said: "All of a sudden that great white came up from out of the water behind … Yelling out 'there's two whites behind you,'" Mr Dent told Today. A surfer notices a shark swimming behind him off Nauset Beach in Orleans. He's behind you! A surfer's GoPro Camera captured a startling sight in Huntington Beach - a great white shark leaping out of the water. A SURFER paddles along searching for the perfect wave — oblivious to the great white shark swimming right behind him. The stunning snap was taken by Natha… Terrifying great white shark photo-bombs kids frolicking in the waves. Here’s How I Did. The Mavericks big wave surf spot was evacuated Sunday after a group of surfers had close encounter with a humongous great white shark estimated to be 16 to 20 feet long. The surfboard is inside the blank and it is my job to find it and bring it to life for the surfer! ... realized he was just feet away from a great white shark, ... at that point I might get some shots of a surfer … Scary: The great white shark leaps just a short distance from the unsuspecting surfer (Image: Thomas Kampas). A once-in-a-lifetime photograph has caught the JAWS-ome moment a massive great white shark breached its entire body out of the water behind an oblivious surfer. The Mavericks big wave surf spot was evacuated Sunday after a group of surfers had close encounter with a humongous great white shark estimated to be 16 to 20 feet long. The shark that took the life of surfer Ben Kelly off Sand Dollar Beach in Aptos on Saturday was a sub-adult great white at least 10-feet in length, according to local shark experts, and a … “All of a sudden a great white shark appeared in the next wave,” Woodward wrote. "These majestic animals do not appear to be in hunting mode.