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Man tells of encounter with shark off Perth beach

Posted Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:02pm AEDT
Updated Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:08pm AEDT

Paul Vickery has described his encounter with a shark as scary. (ABC)

A man has described how a shark came within centimetres of his boat at a beach south of Perth today.

Paul Vickery and his wife were in their five metre aluminium dinghy about 9.30am when a large shark approached it.

The couple were crabbing in waters about half a kilometre from the Port Kennedy beach where 51-year-old banker Brian Guest was taken by a shark on Saturday.

Mr Vickery says he was in the boat about 50 metres off the shore when the shark swam up his dinghy.

"We got a bit of a shark came to us, and splashed around a bit and had a bit of a look at us it was a bit scary," he said.

"Its huge, a huge great one, bigger than the boat probably about five metres, four and a half, five metres.

"It looked so beautiful in the water. I know I feel very sorry for that family, you know for Brian Guests family that got taken the other day, I'm very sorry about that, but I don't know, they are so majestic and so beautiful you know it was quite a thrill to see it."

Beaches from Waikiki to Secret Harbour have been closed.

Quinns Beach in Mindarie has been re-opened after another shark was spotted there earlier today.