Shark photobombs a 10-year-old surfer. And it might be a great white

A 10-year-old surfer has had a close encounter with a photo-bombing shark that shared a wave with him off an Australian beach.

Chris Hasson said Thursday that he was taking photos of his son Eden riding a wave off Samurai Beach at Port Stephens, 180 kilometres (110 miles) north of Sydney, on Tuesday when something unexpected and indistinct caught his eye.

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He discovered he had photographed the face of a twisting shark just below the surface with his son on an apparent collision course. Hasson said shark experts have since told him it was a juvenile great white about 2.5 metres (eight feet) long.

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James Cook University shark researcher Andrew Chin said the photographed shark is possibly a small great white. Eden was not injured.

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