The incident took place at Tuatapere's Blue Cliffs beach in Southland, New Zealand, where eyewitness and local farmer David Evans recorded footage of the attack taking place.
'We were just sort of sitting down to have breakfast and the farmers from the down the road came up and said they'd been watching whales, so we all just piled in the truck and grabbed a camera, grabbed the video and just went down to the beach and just started videoing,' said Mr Evans to New Zealand's TV3 Television.
The whale can be seen in the distance making aggressvie body movements,
The shark manages to escape the whale by swimming to shallow waters and beaching itself.
'It would appear the whales were fighting the sharks. The sharks were coming ashore because they didn't want to be in the water,' said Blue Cliffs Beach resident Peter Robinson.
Close to another section of the beach, six more Orcas were spotted along with a school of sharks.
Small shark are commonly targeted as prey by Orcas.
Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/886016-shark-beaches-itself-to-avoid-killer-whale-attack#ixzz1iItLCC00
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