Boston fisherman’s terrifying close encounter with possible great white shark caught on video

Take a look at this video. A fisherman gets within a few feet of what appears to be a great white shark. This all happening in Boston Harbor on Wednesday, Boston 25. Lisa Pappas spoke with that fisherman who got the experience of a lifetime. A close encounter with a shark. Thomas Rossi was fishing with his friend in Boston Harbor last week when they noticed the fin about 30 yards away. There's almost the rare occasion that we take like a slow ride in and. Just so happened my body was like. This fan so just checked it out and as they got closer they couldn't believe they were just a few feet away from what appeared to be a great white. Yeah, holy. Rossi had to pull out his phone to capture it safe in the boat like once in a lifetime opportunity, so I definitely want to take advantage of it. I took the video in .5 but it is the ground 12 feet so. It was not small according to the shark tivity app which tracks shark activity. There's been at least seven shark sightings off the coast of Massachusetts just within the last week. Most of them tend to be off Cape Cod. Local shark biologists tell us the densities of white sharks off the Cape are among the highest in the world. We're out like striper fishing earlier on the day we saw like seals and which wasn't really ideal for us because they're chasing out all the bait fish so. We didn't really think anything of it and then it kind of all looped together and made sense. New England shark experts say the sharks are usually looking for those seals, not people. Rossi says this experience won't keep him from going back out on the water to fish again this week. They're like very beautiful fish and there's definitely something cool to take in in Boston. Lisa Pappas for your local station. Boston 25 news.