By NICK SQUIRES
It was the closest thing to shark heaven.
A 4m great white shark baffled fishers by finding its way into a fish farm off the coast of South Australia packed with 300 tuna.
But after it marauded around the pen for six days, fishers and scientists decided enough was
enough.
Yesterday a team of experts, including a shark wrangler and animal behaviourist, managed to coax the enormous female shark out of the 30m-wide pen by cutting a hole in the side of the tuna enclosure.
The shark somehow got into the cage last Thursday.
Scientists could find no trace of a hole made by the 700kg white pointer and believe it may have jumped into the pen.
The tuna pen is protected by a 2.4m electric fence, but in South Africa white pointers have been known to jump as high as 2.5m.
The toll on the tuna was less than originally feared, with only one or two apparently snatched and at least two escaping through the improvised funnel.
