For the second time in one week, swimmers at Fox Point Beach near Hubbards, N.S., have gotten up close and personal with a great white shark.

Maria Maclean-Guy, who lives in the area and studies engineering at Dalhousie University, was snorkeling with her mom and brother on Monday afternoon when the three of them saw the shark.

"I was pretty much terrified," she said. "The visibility in the water wasn't great, so you couldn't see much more than 10 to 15 metres away … and so we were just trying to keep eyes on it at all times, and then we were just slowly backing ourselves in towards shore to get out of the water."

Last Wednesday, two scuba divers encountered a great white shark at the same beach, some 53 kilometres west of Halifax.

But encountering a shark while you've got an oxygen

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