Matt Wells went through a terrifying eight minutes as the giant animal stalked him. We might think that sounds pretty scary, but the fisherman simply reckons the shark was just toying with him. Capturing the moment on camera, Wells had headed out on his kayak into the waters around New Zealand’s Bay of Islands.

Video shows a terrified kayaker being stalked for several minutes by a great white shark that approached him in waters off the coast of Northland, New Zealand. The kayak fisherman was identified as Matthew John Patrick Wells by a Fox Weather report.