WATCH: Fishermen fend off Great White shark with pink broom

A group of Australian fishermen had a close call with a Great White shark this week, but managed to escape by fending it off with a household broom.

The Salty Dog Charters in Port Fairy, Victoria, experienced the scary encounter when they cast their lines on a fishing trip, only to have the large shark surface.

In the video posted to the group’s Facebook page, the “massive” shark circles the boat, occasionally nudging it and nipping at it.

Getting dangerously close, the men begin fending the shark off with a pink broom to prevent it from getting too close.

Owner and operator of the charter Dan Hoey and his crew were out attracting yellowtail kingfish when the shark surfaced.

"I was a little bit surprised when we did see it," Mr Hoey told News Limited.

"We were out there searching for yellowtail kingfish, and to do some research work to put some satellite tags in them, and this shark turned up and hung around."

The group nicknamed the shark ‘Black Betty’ with the famous song playing in the background during the encounter.

“Get out of it Black Betty…no Black Betty,” one of the men is heard saying.

Another described the shark as “scabby looking”.

It’s not the first time Mr Hoey has had to ward off a large shark with a similar video posted in October 2016 showing the fisherman using the same red broom to scare off a huge 5.5-meter Great White.

He said the broom had become his tool of choice because it doesn’t hurt the sharks.

"It's just an easy piece of equipment to push them away from the motor so they don't bite it," he said.

"They're a little bit unnerving. We weren't scared, but a little unnerved."

Watch the rest of the video here.