A huge marauding shark - "just like Jaws" - has terrified a Perth fisherman and his wife near where snorkeller Brian Guest is believed to have been taken by a man-eater.
Paul Vickery and his wife Lesley, of Warnbro, were fishing and drop-netting for crabs at Port Kennedy when the shark surfaced next to their 4.5 metre dinghy on Tuesday.
Mr Vickery said it was longer than his dinghy and he believes it was a white pointer.
"We were about 50m off the beach and pretty close to where the guy (Brian Guest) got taken the other day," he told News Ltd website PerthNow.
"We had burlied up and had the crab nets down in the water when he came up and had a look at us.
"It was just like Jaws except he had his mouth closed.
"The boat lurched when he rolled over and he either touched it or the displacement of water made us tip.
"It was pretty violent and gave us a bit of a scare.
"He seemed to be curious. I don't think he was going to attack but we weren't hanging around to see if he was coming back.
"It scared the 'bejesus' out of us."
Mr Vickery said a man on the beach had called police by the time they arrived on shore.
"When we were on the beach the shark started to feed in the shallows," he said.
"We normally go snorkelling but in light of what happened we thought we'd take the boat out.
"My wife didn't even want to go and my name's mud now. She was crying on the beach afterwards."
A Fisheries vessel that had been searching for Mr Guest was notified of the sighting and tracked the shark until it swam into weed.
"They followed it but it went into the weed and disappeared ... so they then proceeded back to shore to help these people back to the boat ramp," Fisheries regional manager Tony Cappelluti told AAP.
"About halfway there they saw some swimmers in the water so they thought it prudent that the swimmers got out.
"So the couple (who) had originally seen the shark made their own way back to the boat ramp and our boat then rounded up any swimmers and told them to get out of the water."
Mr Cappelluti and Fremantle water police said there was no way of knowing if the shark was the one responsible for Mr Guest's disappearance.
But they said it was possible, as the shark had been described as about four metres, the same size as the one described by witnesses of Saturday morning's attack.
The 51-year-old was snorkelling for crabs with his son when he is believed to have been taken at about 7am on Saturday at Cote d'Azur Gardens Beach, south of Rockingham.
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