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Two men from Dunedin, New Zealand are set to launch a new venture allowing tourists to go cage-diving with great white sharks.

The Great White Southern Dive company will drop tourists into the waters of the Foveaux Strait in a two-metre-high aluminium cage.

Co-owner Peter Dryden said that on his first time in the cage, which he claims is practically indestructible, he saw five of the giant sharks, reports the Otango Daily Times.

Commenting on the experience, he said: 'It's pretty awesome. It's something you can't describe. They're amazing.'

Mr Dryden also claimed that visitors to New Zealand's Stewart Island would not have to fear that sharks would be aggressive, as they have been known to be in other cage-diving locations around the world.

'I think it's because they are not hungry. There's plenty of food for them to eat around Stewart Island,' he explained.

'Cages dropped in South Africa and South Australia have had their air hoses chomped through by the sharks. But our cage is indestructible because it sits just below the surface by the boat.'

The tours are expected to cost around $500 (£190) per person per day.

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