Matt Wells, 19, was recently fishing alone near Cape Rēinga when he encountered the great white shark, according to The New Zealand Herald . Using his fishing camera, which he also records YouTube videos on, Wells was able to capture the experience on film. “Please don’t attack me, bro!,” he said in the video.

A kayak fisherman was followed by a great white shark. He sat down to talk about what was going through his head when a shark followed him for eight minutes.