WATCH: New Jersey fishermen’s close encounter with great white shark

WATCH: Raw video of encounter with great white shark as it rips the chum bag from the fishermen’s boat

TORONTO – A group of New Jersey fishermen are going to need a bigger boat — or at least another chumbucket — after a great white shark ripped the bucket from the side of their boat.

Steve Clark and four other people were fishing last week when they had a “once in a lifetime” encounter.

“It was awesome. It wasn’t scary because we’re used to sharks, it was awesome,” Clark told CBS. “I happened to see it first and obviously I was a bit stunned, I didn’t say anything to anybody, I was just trying to process the information because it was quite a big fish.”

The crew was out fishing for mako sharks when the great white decided to have a snack of his own.

“The likelihood of seeing another one that close… probably never going to happen again,” he said. “It was a great event, a once in a lifetime deal.”