I hope the person who suggested trying to catch the great white shark seen off Whangarei's coast this past week was joking.
The comment was on our Facebook page, which featured an Advocate website story about a diver's close encounter with a 5.5m great white shark last Thursday.
The Whangarei man was off Peach Cove, near the rocks, and 5m below the surface when the great white first passed close by.
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The diver surfaced, waved his mates over in a boat and who knows what went through his mind as the shark passed by him another three times before they arrived.