A colourful interview with two young boaties about a recent shark sighting left presenters in stitches on Sunday morning.
Lachie Murrell and Nathan Rolls appeared on Weekend Today to talk about their boat being circled by a great white off the NSW South Coast.
The interview started serious with Lachie describing the moment a giant great white gnawed at the propellor on their boat as “insane” and claimed the waters where they were parked off near Ulladulla were teeming with Great Whites and tiger sharks trying to eat a dead whale carcass.
“It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” he said.
Nathan said he visited the spot twice after his girlfriend and a bunch of mates wanted to watch the feeding frenzy in action.
When the lads were asked what it felt like being so close to a great white, the interview veered into uncharted — albeit hilarious — waters.
“I was like a chameleon in a bag of Skittles,” Nathan said as the studio broke out in laughter.
“I didn’t know what to do. [The shark] was probably around five to six-and-a-half metres.”
The interview took another hilarious turn when Lachie pulled a lobster to his face and began using it as a microphone.
“It was a bit of a code brown for Nath. He blew a hole in his boardies,” Lachie quipped, this time with laughs in the studio getting louder.
“Lachie, now, the shark went for the engine a couple of times, were you worried at that point? Come on, you’ve got to have been a little bit nervous?” presenter Lizzie Pearl asked.
He said everyone was having a good time until “the big one arrived” and started circling their boat.
“Yeah, once she showed up, we were out like a fart in a hurricane,” Nathan joked. The presenters broke out in uncontrolled laughter.
When Pearl tried to say the shark was giving the boat “a little kiss,” Nathan hit back, saying it had bitten harder earlier in the morning and friends on the vessel almost fell over.
“We’re still looking for Finn,” Lachie joked in an apparent reference to a mate.
When pressed on the lobster mic, Lachie made sure the presenters knew the crustacean’s name wasn’t Mike.
“Yeah, his name’s not Mike, but he is a mic.”
Pearl thanked the boys and asked if they had anymore analogies to share.
“Na, you’ll just have to get us back on,” Lachie quipped.
The appearance led one of the presenters to proclaim the duo deserved their own show while co-presenter Michael Atkinson said they were talented enough to host Weekend Today.
“I think they deserve it,” fellow co-host Alison Piotrowski chimed in.
It’s believed the sharks had been feeding on a dead whale carcass.
A videographer captured the moment a humpback whale became a dinner feast for sharks on Friday.
Trent Micallef shared this footage of one shark munching on the whale carcass near Kioloa, describing the scene as “the circle of life”.
Additional drone footage captured by Micallef shows sharks swimming around the whale.
“A once in a lifetime opportunity to witness a great white this size,” he wrote to Instagram.
“I honestly don’t think I’ll ever see another one quite like it.”