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When a great white shark is headed in your direction, it really pays to have steel bars in the way.
That was definitely the case for videographer Oliver Bray who captured the terrifying moment a great white chomped down on his diving cage in Gansbaai, South Africa.
The small town, which is about 100 miles south of Cape Town, is a hot bed for thrill seeking tourists because its resident seal population draws great whites to an infamous spot in the ocean known as Shark Alley.
That is where Bray and his team parked their boat and chummed the waters with chopped up fish to draw in the giant predatory fish back in February.
Getting into a diving cage with a few other divers, Bray first captures a great white shark casually swimming past the group before another swims directly at them.
In a scene straight out of “Jaws,” the open-mouthed great white clamps down on the cage with its razor sharp teeth just inches away from Bray’s camera.
Luckily for all, the cage held strong, so they didn’t need a bigger boat.
