Watch 'curious' great white shark swim alongside boat near Yarmouth

A Nova Scotia woman says a close encounter with a great white shark last weekhas made her more cautious, but won't keep her from enjoying ocean dips.

Duanad'Entremontand her husband, Franois, captured the moment when the massive shark swam alongside the couple's boat near Big TusketIsland, N.S., on Friday.

"See if I ever swim again," Duanad'Entremontsays in the video after letting a surprised expletive slip. Franois, a fisherman, can beheard laughingin the background.

"Alright, let's get out of here," she continues. "This is where I fall in, you wait and see. Oh my land."

It was Franois who first noticed the shark's fin sticking out of the calm, glass-like water.

They steered closer and the shark approachedthe boat while Rockwell and Michael Jackson'sSomebody's Watching Meplayed on the radio.

Duana sent her video to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, whichconfirmed Monday it was a great white shark.

"They said it was certainly a large adult and curious by the way it, you know, brought its head over to the boat," Duana told CBCRadio'sMaritime Noon. "He said that's not unusual for them, that they are 'curious animals.'"

Duana, who lives in nearby Melbourne, close to Yarmouth, estimated it was about fourmetres long.

Franois, who said he sees sharks quite often in the summer, enjoyedseeingDuana'sreaction to her first wild shark sighting.

"I was killing myself laughing so much I could barely speak," he said.

Duana said she often swims long distances in the ocean by herself, despite repeated warnings fromher husband to be on the lookout for sharks.

"I've told her time and time again and she didn't seem to heed my precautions at all," saidFranois.

Duanasaid she never worried until now.

'It did scare me'

"The DFO person said this morning, 'Oh yeah, they go close to shore looking for ... things,'" she said."So yeah, it did scare me."

But Duana said she didn't want to let the shark win Friday.

She got back in the water for a short swim later that day, but made Franois go alongside her in an inflatable boat.