Heart-stopping footage has captured the moment a fisherman came within metres of a massive crocodile. 

Riley McCormack had been with a group of friends walking through a billabong, east of Darwin, in the Northern Territory.

Mr McCormack shared the footage to TikTok with video showing a massive crocodile resting just metres ahead of them.  

One of the fisherman can be heard saying ‘holy s**t’ as the crocodile traversed through shallow waters on its way to a nearby creek.

‘Holy f**k we are lucky,’ someone can be heard saying.

Another said: ‘Were we supposed to be walking through there?’

The group are seen in the video bravely walking up to the crocodile as it swims away. 

‘Holy f**k, we would not have seen that,’ one said.

The group said they knew there were crocodiles in the area but they were not prepared to see a predator of that size.

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Mr McCormack said the incident happened in 2022 but he uploaded footage to TikTok this year to ‘show the world some of the things we get up to in the territory’.

‘We knew there were crocs in the billabong we were going to but definitely didn’t expect that big fella, especially in the little puddle we found it in,’ he told Yahoo. 

‘It (the Norther Territory) is definitely a very wild place and you don’t have to travel very far at all to have mind-blowing experiences, it’s a place unlike anywhere else.’

Social media users were left shocked by the massive size of the predator. 

‘I would not want to be there after that,’ one wrote.

‘That’s probably the one who took my hunting dog from that area. You got to be safe around there,’ a second added.

‘Be careful my friend,’ another wrote.

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