I used to talk to a really old fella who lived locally, late 70s and still a professional scuba diver. Had been all his days and was proud to be the oldest registered professional diver at the time. Very interesting man. Pat McCrory. Well Pat swore he encountered a large Great white between Arran and Troon in the late 1980s (estimated by me, he said 30odd years ago and it was about 2010). Off Lady Isle. It came very close and he hadn't seen it approach as he was busy working on a cable or something. Gave him a big fright but no harm, it hung around long enough for him to closely observe it and consider its anatomy. The man had +55 years experience in and under west coast Scottish waters. He loved sea life and was obviously fascinated and well read on the subject. He had zero doubt thaf he'd met a great white that day. Lady Isle has a huge seal colony. Pat died last year otherwise I'd have arranged a chat with you. His kids will know the details and exact location. One still lives in Troon I think.
@@AirbornePirates j just googled old Pat. I'd misspelled his surname. It's McCrorie! Looks like his son still has a scuba instructor business. Found an article from when he finally retired in 2015 aged EIGHTY NINE!!! Amazing. Glad I checked, saying he was 70 odd was a insult 😂. No shark story in that article, all about WW2 and diving safety near misses. But I'm sure he must've told the GW tale during on of his many interviews. Old legend. Bomb disposal unit was called to his house when his son discovered a box full of WW2 hand granades stashed in his garage while clearing out his belongings after he passed. His whole street got evacuated for the night. Pat would have been pissing himself at that drama! His infamy lives on. Old lovely rogue.
I grew up in the west of Ireland and used to fish from the rocks in an area just up from Spanish point , one year as I was fishing catching masses of Mackerel in the shallows I noticed over two dozen seals had come in an started to get out and onto the rocks totally ignoring the shoals of mackerel and pollack , didn't really think much of it till a couple of years ago when I was watched a documentary on white sharks
The great white shark lives in the coastal waters of almost all oceans and seas, where the water temperature is 12 to 24 °C, they seem to prefer cold water habitats. The waters they tend to inhabit are generally around the 16°C mark, which is bang in the middle of the mean water temperature the UK experiences during summer and autumn months. Making our waters perfect for great whites.
As a 50 yr old from Newfoundland, I grew up thinking Great Whites didn’t come to our waters because of the cold temps but after tracking these sharks, we now know that there’s loads of them in our waters. 😊
You'd think the same of Cape Town and it's Atlantic waters which are traditionally cold, but some of THE biggest GW's ever seen have been sighted around Cape Town, False Bay and surrounds.
We thought they weren't in our waters off the coast of South Carolina in the USA but came to find out they are. There is a nursery off of the coast of Charleston South Carolina. They ping here regularly. I haven't been in the ocean since this was discovered. There has even been an attack by one here years ago confirmed. They can be anywhere.
Great video as always, its really sickening to know what we as a species have done to sharks. Hopefully people like yourself keep highlighting these things and one day (hopefully soon) it will end. Keep up the great content
I once saw a programme on Mediterranean gw sharks and a juvenile had been caught around Scilily. They believed between Scilily and the North African coast was believed to be a gw breeding area . Great vid . Thank you
It's on RUclips, but cut into videos of around 10 minutes. A great documentary. Strange there aren't more like it. General awareness of great white sharks in the Mediterranean seems to be lacking for some reason.
I think its foolish to think they aren't here. The water temp is fine, the food is here and they're so nomadic it would be stupid to think they haven't been here. They're in the med and they're barely spotted in clearer waters, so seeing one here would be even harder. I hope they enjoy their stay and we can have a confirmed sighting soon.
@@jacobrobsolino5666 Not at all. White shark populations globally are low, our numbers would be incredibly low, so the chances of that happening are slim to none. They would most likely be in our southern waters, so not really any chance of orcas and my guess would most likely be immature ones for the most part as they wander more. Juveniles wouldn’t be inclined to be in close proximity with orcas and seals wouldn’t be their primary food source, so they probably wouldn’t go up north/Scotland.
@@MrZexyy true, seen some great drone videos of swimmers and boarders doing their thing with White sharks cruising beneath them and the swimmers don't even realize they are there. Unfortunately some people will die due to a curious white shark (globally) but by and large they just don't seem that interested in us. Now, if it were bull or Tiger sharks it might be a different story.
I am more suprised we don't see more than we do. Just cause it's not seen, don't necessary mean it's never there. Looking forward to Ocearch research. Plus I hope one day they re tag their first big great white sharks again, as Lydia (that was close to UK), Katherina and more. Great video. Hope the new cameras gives you awesome video clips.
I was talking to my uncle on the phone today and I never heard him talk the way he did today, he was basically shit. fucking. scared... and he LOVES the sea. basically right, he goes fishing (with rods) using kayaks and canoes off the Devonshire coast. He was out all weekend just gone and he said that on Saturday he saw something breach the water wayyyyy off in the distance like miles basically. anyway he thought it was a little odd but honestly thought nothing more of it and had a great few hours out on the water. then the next day, Sunday, he goes out in his canoe, its a two man open top canoe he said, and hes just put his oar down and is setting up his rod when under the canoe swims what he can only describe as a great white shark. He said he's seen basking sharks many times in his life and he knew instantly this wasnt one. he said he saw the white of the sharks underbelly on its side as if it was painted on he said and when it turned he saw its huge black eye looking right back at him. I actually believe my uncle because he went home. he said he turned the canoe around and went home he was so shaken by it.
@ThEmperorIsDead in response to your comment my uncle said "a porbeagle the size of a shipping container?" He said "the shark I saw has probably eaten a few porbeagles"
Love your TELEVISION QUALITY videos. (It usually takes a TEAM of people to produce TV content of this quality...) Your research, observations and enthusiasm for the items/subjects is truly involving and engaging. (The good looks and honest likeable persona doesn't hurt!!!) Given that Blue Sharks, Makos, Porbeagles and other shark species are relatively common in British/Irish waters it is not impossible that Great White fish might pay us an occasional visit. (They are known travellers, it would be ODD if they hadn't found themselves in our waters...) The water temp is within their capability and prey is abundant. But so far no DEFINITE sightings. EXPLORERS/NATURALISTS such as yourself provide those of us who are interested with a lot to consider and think upon. As a sport scuba diver myself, I've dived off the Isle Of Man. (Only time I've ever seen a Cuttlefish!!!) Keep doing what you do. (BRILLIANT, engaging, entertaining, educational and involving content...) xx SF
That it's to cold water argument have i never understood. Great Whites are not a tropical shark, they love this kind of summer temperatures between 12 and 22 Celsius. So why shouldn't they already bee there
I have been to Sicily many times over the last 40 years and visit and stay on the Egadi Islands of the west coast of Sicily. In particular the island of Favignana is famous for the Mattanza or netting and capture of blue fin tuna. Sadly the practice has seen a major decline in recent decades and sometimes no tuna are caught now that industrial fishing takes place and the tuna are caught mechanically by (mostly) Korean or Japanese fishing boats. There is one cafe/taverna in Favignana I eat or drink coffee in, where the walls are lined with many photos of great white sharks caught at the same time the fishermen spear the tuna and these photos are all from recent times, certainly from the 60's/70's/80's as some of the fishermen in the pictures were/are still alive and recognisable in the pictures themselves and the great white sharks in the pictures are very large. There are also many newspaper clippings and several specimens caught are between 4m-5m in length. With the decline and almost extinction of blue fin tuna from the Mediterranean I can only imagine the great white population in the Med is struggling or at serious risk and may be moving out from there and beginning to head north. It was also believed that the large female sharks caught were breeding sharks from the north Atlantic and gave birth in the Mediterranean. Anyway plenty of evidence of photos of great whites in Sicily than the example you reference in the 1900's.
@@AirbornePirates Yes they do. Feel very nervous swimming off the island I must admit! Thank you for your insight and very interesting content and analysis. As always excellent.
A family friend , a respected local fisherman in penzance/newlyn in Cornwall swears blind that many years ago 1980,s and 1990’s he spotted white sharks in mounts bay . Nobody believed him but I’m starting to wonder if he wasn’t that crazy after all !
Another awesome video. I caught a 6ft blue shark off Cornwall a couple of years ago, and saw a thresher jump, so knowing the conditions of the water that Great Whites frequent, I'd be very surprised if there isn't the odd few that migrate our way. Living on the East coast of Britain is a bit annoying, as we don't get those kind of sharks our way.😔 I'd absolutely love to go to the west coast next summer, and try shark fishing/spotting again, just to see what else could be around.👍 Keep up the great work and videos!👍
It would be wonderful just to stick to the shark spotting instead of catching them. We really need to respect sharks and they need to be protected. I hope you have a great time out on the sea. Please don't think I'm being rude towards you, that's not my intent. All the best to you 😊
Great video again. I've got the app the kids love tracking the sharks. I'm off to lanzarote next week hopefully do a fair bit of scuba diving around the coast it's ment to have great sea life.
A fascinating vlog mate, its nice to listen to the information and data from yourself, you definitely need your own tv channel, i could watch your vids all day!!!!!!!
In 1977 I was actually in La Rochelle swimming in the sea, went there on a school exchange for two weeks 😅 that's probably why they never returned after seeing me 😂 Great video, I'm hooked on watching your videos ❤
Another great video and exciting to learn that OCEARCH is charting a course our way. I'm particularly eager to see what the West of Ireland reveals, given its status as a hotspot for tuna right now. Let's delve into my perspective on the northward migration of sharks. While some may argue it's due to seals, I firmly believe it's the tuna mirgations that primarily draw white sharks north. Consider this: despite the ever-present endangered Great White Sharks in the Mediterranean, we're witnessing a steep decline in sightings. This drop-off could be attributed to the unfortunate decline of the Mediterranean Monk Seal and it is my view that white sharks have mostly adapted their diet towards fish such as Tuna and, perhaps, dolphins. With the number of Monk seals dwindling, these predators may not need to venture in-shore as often, which might explain the infrequent human encounters in the Mediterranean compared to other regions. Looking at history, when Monk Seals thrived in the Mediterranean, Great Whites likely ventured in-shore more frequently, resulting in more human interactions. But with seals no longer abundant, this behaviour may have changed. Still, compelling research points to significant nursery areas for these sharks near Lampedusa, in the Pelagie Islands, Italy, emphasising the Strait of Sicily's importance as a breeding ground. Historically, Sicilian fishermen sometimes found white sharks in their nets while fishing for tuna using the "La Mattanza" method. Evidence suggests the Mediterranean may have other breeding areas, especially in the east (Greece, Turkey), where predator populations are relatively low. But research does suggest white sharks are known to pass through the Straits of Gibraltar. Some suggest Eastern seaboard white shark cross the Atlantic to breed in the safe waters of the Med - I don't believe that to be case. Med sharks are distinct from this group and more closely related to Australian white sharks. But given the sightings here in the UK and in Ireland it does warrant further investigation. I'm sure we can round up a few wealthy philanthropists on the Isle of Man - they'll be cueing up to fund OCEARCH after seeing another smashing video from Island Outdoors.
Great stuff as always, interesting about that tooth found off Arran. I live on the NW tip of Ireland & am often snorkeling or in our boat, nothing seen as yet, but always looking 🧐😏
Im positive there are GWs in UK waters. I live on the East coast of New Zealands north island. Our area isnt a national hot spot for them but they are there in numbers, commuting between harbours where baitfish are abundant & Seal colonies further south & as in your vid at Campbell Island. Cooler temps certainly dont seem to govern their range, Alaska has them & its on a colder lattitude than the UK. I firmly believe they are present but not in the same abundance. It will only be a matter of time before theres a positive identification.
water temp doesnt necessarily correlate to latitude.... the water temp in nova scotia is far colder than any water temp on a corresponding latitude on the other side of the Atlantic, due to the effects of the Gulf Stream which keeps those parts of the UK and Ireland warmer than their latitude would suggest.... and nova scotia has always had significant numbers of Great Whites. the idea that they are warm water sharks is revisionist climate change bullshite.
@@Endo-uu8mo If you read what I put you would see I never said it wasnt. I referred to the area of NZ where I live - it isnt a national hot spot for them. They are here but not in congregation as they are in other parts of NZ. Hot spots are Chatham Islands, Stewart Island, Campbell Island, Matakana harbour, Manukau harbour & a few other places. I live in Gisborne & will add - I know a guy who dived Aeriel reef about 12 yrs ago, its 14km off gissy, he had a very close & uncomfortable encounter with a very big female - he really did think his days were over but by a stroke of luck managed to surface & get back on the boat. The shark surfaced & was longer than the boat that was 18ft long. The guy was a very keen surfer, diver & the like & has not dived since. A staunch type of chap his encounter was so full on he ended up with PTSD over the whole ordeal.
Thing is, many folks are surprised why there are NOT white sharks in UK waters; they adapt to cooler temps (and anyway, the Gulf Stream allows even Mako sharks to show up) there are smaller relatives like the Porbeagle, there are seal colonies etc...
Exactly But if they were here, there would be no discussion. We'd just know. Look how many people and boats crowd the South and West coasts. People all over the coast, hiring a boat for a day of fishing, and casually throwing fish guts in the water, people paddle boarding everywhere, beaches that are crowded every time the sun peeks out for 10 minutes...And all we get is the occasional guy on a boat who winds people up by telling them a basking shark is a great white
@@ashscott6068 what is the history of the seal population in the UK/Ireland? have they always been very numerous or was there a period where they were hunted and reduced significantly? the nearest populations of Great whites would be to the south, off of France, and in the Med, but those sharks would be used to looking for different types of prey, seals wouldnt be their primary interest, though of course they are opportunistic and will eat anything they can catch...
@@ashscott6068 apparently seals almost disappeared, for many years, with populations far below what it would take to support a permanent population of great whites... so, if they were ever here, they left, or died out. the seals are coming back with a bang, so expect to see the predators come back at some point as well...
Good morning, being a massive jaws fan I’ve just recently stumbled across your channel which I find fascinating . I was over in cape cod in may and did the trip to Martha’s Vineyard aka amity .I’m going to share the hell out of your videos. Keep up the fantastic videos we have to save the worlds sharks 🦈
gone through my books and the only tooth that looks like that is a GWS tooth. There's others similar, but not quite like that. The Water Wolf is really good, i've used one for lure fishing for pike. Pike ignored the lure and bit the bloody camera!! Good job I used 65lb wire and 80lb braid to avoid issues.
Thanks for another really informative and exciting video. I found it particularly interesting that the Great White population has grown so much on the US East Coast in the last fifty years. I grew up in the Outer Hebrides and sadly, I didn’t see a Great White 😁 but here’s hoping for the future 😅. I can’t quite believe it, but as you’ve rightly said, why not? An abundance of seals and correct water temperatures. Thanks for all your research.
How's it going delighted to hear this 😊❤️ love your videos keep them coming 😎 it would be great if this happened I'd love to see the great white shark... I'm really excited for this to happen... I live in Ireland so it would be interesting if they visited the coast of Ireland aswell❤❤❤❤ thanks for sharing this great news😊 looking forward to seeing what happens next.,we have great conditions for the great white here plenty of seals and moderate water temperature they could survive here.. hoping they come soon... I'd be the first to jump in a boat to see them😊 I've wanted this to happen for years..
People have known GWS have been in British waters for ever. It's only since 1977 and "Jaws" came out, that it posed any kind of issue. The fact that they're rarely seen and even then, mostly by Fishermen, (who are notorious for tall stories) isn't unusual. I think this 'research' is part of a soft reveal, that they're rolling out, so that when the inevitable happens, and we have proof of them, people won't panic and stop going to the beaches.
@@user-zp4ge3yp2o I lived in St Ives in the 80s, and I know fishermen who've seen them more than once, usually when they'd been re-baiting and shooting away lines of crab pots. Seeing Sharks isn't even unusual when you're chucking 400 1lb lumps of chopped up fish into a known Oceanic Shark fishing mecca. And there's a much healthier and more varied Shark population in Cornwall today, which I'm sure is at least partly down to the return of Bluefin Tuna to British waters.
Another fantastic video👍 I really appreciate the effort you put into these videos, a smile always comes to my face when I see you have uploaded a new video (especially shark videos)👍🏴
There was reports of a great White being found washed up in Spain at Tossa de Mar ,with the remains of a young girl in its insides, back in the day . Other reports of sardine fishermen in the area of the Greek islands spotting great whites . The Med is thought to be a breeding area for great whites . If that tooth is from a baby great white ,your gonna need a bigger boat . 🦈
They are off the coast around Torbay, have been for more than 30 years. Instead of chumming, use an electrical pulse of 400 milivolts at 92 pulses per minute, 2 mm copper wire on your drag seal and drag it behind the boat.
I watched a programme on Great Whites in the Med. Tuna fishermen say that they stay down at 30 m depth then come up fast to take the tuna. The tuna migrate out from the Med after spawning and the Great Whites must follow them. I assume that the water gets warmer from July to September. So they could be following the tuna but turn around before getting up to big seal areas.
I'm a surfer on the Brittany coast. I have been surfing all the time since 2001 and the water is curiously warm this year. Will have to get the app to check where those sharks are 😂
I live near Phillip Island in Victoria Australia… (heaps of surfers love the place but we ALL know that the whites eat the seals… breed here… and roam the worlds oceans… we have a preserved white shark called Rosie in a big tank… I’d guarantee they’re in your climate…
Im in lreland. Years ago a beautiful Blue Shark was caught and brought in to Youghal ('Yahawl') Harbour. I cried for two days! Its was incredible beautiful, the colour of the blue sky and dead. Blues are around lreland so lm pretty sure Whites are too. You should see the big fat seals here!
Did my med undergrad and MSc in Plymouth and swam a lot, would be awesome to think that maybe we are sharing those waters in white sharks. Really hope ocearch finds evidence of them swimming around. Thanks for the update on it was wondering when they'd pop over. Cheers.
No doubt in my mind that they are here, no reason why they shouldn’t be. I hope you see a great white when your out on your adventures, just make sure you stay in your boat lol
I’m sure there will be GWS sighting off the West of Ireland , Scotland , Cornwall in the future . Who’s to say they weren’t here in the past before records began . Perhaps they were in Cape Cod before and have just returned . Maybe the last time there were there was before Europeans had ever set foot there!
There's a lot of marine life off the north west coast of Scotland. Was up in Knoydart last summer and there were plenty of mackerel about, plenty of seals and porpoises and even minke whale feeding on them. Would not surprise me if great whites are also there feeding on the seals.
Growing up Fishing in Australia i can say if there are Great whites it wont take long to get evidance . they are generally very inquisative and will pass very close to a stationary boat if they are in the area.
Cracking video. After watching jaws i had endless nightmares🤣 but i still find them fascinating im sure its not just white sharks that visit our shores. I watched a program i believe it was river monsters that suggested Greenland sharks were responsible for some of the loch ness monster sightings whats your take on that out of interest?
im the type of person that i need to see with my own eyes! but i also dont know what lives beneath the seas of this world..so im never surprised when new species are found or if a great white is spotted off the english coast!
100% here. Swimming in the sea all my life. Was in for a dawn swin when the weather was nice. There was one other person in the cove & at exactly the same time both of us stopped & turned for shore. The only time i have ever been scared out of water. Both of us felt there was something else in the water. Never happened since but wont ever forget it.
@@robayre482 Im probably better off not knowing what was in the water that morning but it spooked 2 strangers to react in the same way at the same time.
I think the Waxham sighting is a shark, it seems to be swimming along and the other seals have pushed in close to shore. Do you remember the seal pup bitten in half picture from Weybourne I sent you last year? That’s just up the way from Waxham
These are absolutely beautiful creatures… who’ve lived for millions of years and have evolved… they have learnt to adapt Far more smarter than humans will ever be I’m massively against shark hunting. These creatures are not attacking humans because we are an easy meal… it’s simply mistaken identity. Great White Sharks have thousands of taste buds in their mouths, they mainly bite to test what they are stumbling upon… and 9/10 times spit us boney, pathetic humans out because we ain’t got the blubber they are seeking. From the murky depths of the ocean from where they hunt, from below, looking up to someone on a surf board a human resembles a very similar shape, silhouette and low frequency of sound of elephant seals and seals which is their primary source of food. Unfortunately, because to a shark, a human has the same density as a trout with not much meat and lots of bones have to us. But due to their size, the test bite has often come from a 40mph strike from underneath as they are ambush apex predators. The result is often fatal. And for your information, The Bull Shark is far more dangerous and far more aggressive and what makes the Bull Shark particularly dangerous is the fact it’s Euryhaline, which means it can live in fresh water, brackish water, or salt water. Unlike the Tiger Shark or Great White. Where they prefer warmer waters. If you don’t really understand sharks like I do, Bull Sharks can look like Great Whites in a panic situation. And tiger sharks have been scientifically proven to have beautiful personalities and can remember marine biologists and there have been several stories of humans having 15-20 year friendships with Tiger Sharks and recognise they are in their vicinity by recognising their boat by sound and shape. I do believe films like Jaws have given humans a completely misunderstood and inaccurate understanding about these magnificent creatures. Remember, we are in their territory… they are not in our territory. We need to learn to change our views on these animals.
I believe they are in UK waters for sure, only a matter of time before one is caught. I don't think enough fishermen Target them properly. Yes lots of anglers fish for sharks and there has been no bi-catch. We need to keep in mind it's the apex predator and have a complete different feeding pattern and prey
yet they have had a huge shark fishing festival in Cornwall every year since 1960 with dozens of boats out chumming off Cornwall's coast for 6 days straight plus all the charters for shark fishing the rest of the year all around the UK and Ireland yet there has never been one caught or come to a boat chumming. on top of that our waters see some of the heaviest commercial fishing and never has one been trawled up but every other species of shark in our waters have been. and where there are seals you get seal watching tour boats yet never has a great white been observed feeding on them with those 1000's of people every year going out on these tourist trips.
Enjoyed the pod-cast and informative - However, the pictures at 5.38 appears to be of the famous 22ft Cuban White Shark - not Sicilian, although I stand to be corrected. The largest White Shark ever caught in the Mediterranean was April 1987. A Maltese fisherman caught a White shark which measured in at 23ft 6ins off Malta and although there have obviously been reports of other larger Whites from around the world and within the last 100 years, this Maltese White Shark was fully authenticated.
It wasn't fully authenticated as 23 ft. There is still debate as to the size. Fergusson (1998c) analysed photographs of the Malta specimen taken by John Gullaumier and concluded the TL was likely closer to between just 520 and 550 cm. Fergusson (2000) affirmed that the shark was no larger than 550 cm TL. Italian white shark expert De Maddalena claimed it was most likely an overestimate. Just looking at the images, if that shark is 23 feet, then those Maltese people are a race of 7 foot giants.
I totally agree, Whites deffinately visit imo. Whe have a few species of sharks which are hardly ever seen so chances of spotting a white would be slim especially because our seas are among the busiest shipping waters in the world and makes sense that sharks will try to avoid the noise so will rarely break the surface
While the water here IS plenty warm enough for great Whites, and there's a fuckton of food for them, I don't find those compelling reasons to believe they're here. Mars might be covered in Jungle where every tree is a banana tree, but I wouldn't expect to find monkeys there, cus of the whole problem of swinging from tree to tree and getting from one planet to another. Why would these sharks make a long and pointless journey, away from where they KNOW they have food, not knowing what they'll find? And, let's face it: They'd hit the South West coast first, where there are a LOT of seals, and a LOT of people. If they were coming here, it wouldn't even be a question. We wouldn't just get the one or two sketchy reports a year, from people trying to sucker in a bit of extra tourism. We'd have countless, hi-def, undeniable videos. If they're coming here, it's not for food. Maybe the occasional individual comes here cus he got bullied away from other areas and out-competed for breeding rights and food. But if it was just a normal behaviour, we wouldn't be having the discussion; we'd just be watching all the footage.
You're gonna need a bigger chumming bucket , I was watching some South Africans chumming, and their bucket was about a metre in depth , half a metre in diameter, and it was about 3/4 empty when sharks started showing up ...Good luck bud ✌️👨🚒👩🚒💯
That tooth is easily the best evidence for whites in the UK. They have pretty distinctive teeth as you say other macro predatory sharks their teeth are all different and none quite match the great white. It's narrow but great white teeth are like that. The broad triangular teeth are the top jaw the lower jaw is narrower. So yeah I'd put money on this being a lower tooth of a juvenile white. Best of all, it's not fossilised. Not only can it be carbon dated (it could still be hundreds of years old) but it is possible a DNA sample could be extracted from the root, then we could know the species without question.
I live by the sea in Cornwall and I talk to the fishermen and they said they have seen some great white sharks in recent years! I’m not swimming anymore in the sea!🔥
I genuinely think they do come to our waters but like you say it will be at the seal colonies and they tend to not be surrounded by too much human activity in the water to come into contact with them or to see them from shore. It’s really not that far from the med also like you say. I think it’s only a matter of time. Before too long it will be a normal thing to see one I think.
I'm quite interested on the seal decoy and seeing what happens. I always recommend on looking for the right habitat where there is a food source and also the timing. I always suggest either dusk or dawn because that's when sharks are more active in hunting.
I’m from Norfolk uk and the sea was so warm last summer when it hit 38 in Great Yarmouth .. would of been very possible and warm enough for them .also we have a lot of there prey seals close at scroby sands
I read that Great Whites are primarily attracted by sound rather than smell and that AC/DC heavy rock played underwater seems to attract them according to an Australian tour operator. I reckon if you play some "Dirty deeds done dirt cheap" underwater through a mega underwater woofer..... it could lure in some of the aussie beasts .....sound travels faster and further than chum..... 😂
Now appearing as Mr Caiques and not Stan, but hey ho.... look at our attitude; they've been found in Alaska - known for its tropical beaches... "They should be..."...and they will be, but how many people are looking? I'm four hundred feet up a hill overlooking the bay, and unless you look at it all day, every day, you won't even see the resident pod of dolphins let alone a fin or breaching GW. The bay is like a mill pond tonight and any fin slicing through the water would, most likely, be seen by somebody. Temps - we're in the Goldilocks zone because the Gulf Stream ends in the north sea - right outside my living room window (I do glance frequently at it but that's the end of my scientific research). I'd love to rent a cage once we find one and crawl in there. I bet they're big buggers here too and mostly like their relatives in Oz where you went cage diving, ours may not, in fact, breach a lot. In the Hebrides, it may be a different scenario. At any rate, it will still only be half a second's worth.
I usually stay out of the great white debate but I like this video, I work off the Atlantic coast in Cornwall and get asked about them a lot, I agree with the science we have a pretty good environment for them but there's just not enough of them left. Still so many cool ones, I did work with that Greenland shark that came up and couple of years ago. Unusual question, trying to place your accent, I'm from Stoke originally, you around that neck of the woods?
Another great video I’ve been binge watching your U.K. shark series, I stay on the east coast of Scotland, have you ever thought about great whites in the North Sea I’m sure there been sightings etc and I know we get orcas and loads of species of whales Anyway can’t wait for the next shark video 🙌
I used to talk to a really old fella who lived locally, late 70s and still a professional scuba diver. Had been all his days and was proud to be the oldest registered professional diver at the time. Very interesting man. Pat McCrory. Well Pat swore he encountered a large Great white between Arran and Troon in the late 1980s (estimated by me, he said 30odd years ago and it was about 2010). Off Lady Isle. It came very close and he hadn't seen it approach as he was busy working on a cable or something. Gave him a big fright but no harm, it hung around long enough for him to closely observe it and consider its anatomy. The man had +55 years experience in and under west coast Scottish waters. He loved sea life and was obviously fascinated and well read on the subject. He had zero doubt thaf he'd met a great white that day. Lady Isle has a huge seal colony. Pat died last year otherwise I'd have arranged a chat with you. His kids will know the details and exact location. One still lives in Troon I think.
This is a cracking sighting, shame Pat is no longer with us, but with 55 years diving experience i'm sure he knew what he was looking at
@@AirbornePirates j just googled old Pat. I'd misspelled his surname. It's McCrorie! Looks like his son still has a scuba instructor business. Found an article from when he finally retired in 2015 aged EIGHTY NINE!!! Amazing. Glad I checked, saying he was 70 odd was a insult 😂. No shark story in that article, all about WW2 and diving safety near misses. But I'm sure he must've told the GW tale during on of his many interviews. Old legend. Bomb disposal unit was called to his house when his son discovered a box full of WW2 hand granades stashed in his garage while clearing out his belongings after he passed. His whole street got evacuated for the night. Pat would have been pissing himself at that drama! His infamy lives on. Old lovely rogue.
I grew up in the west of Ireland and used to fish from the rocks in an area just up from Spanish point , one year as I was fishing catching masses of Mackerel in the shallows I noticed over two dozen seals had come in an started to get out and onto the rocks totally ignoring the shoals of mackerel and pollack , didn't really think much of it till a couple of years ago when I was watched a documentary on white sharks
The great white shark lives in the coastal waters of almost all oceans and seas, where the water temperature is 12 to 24 °C, they seem to prefer cold water habitats. The waters they tend to inhabit are generally around the 16°C mark, which is bang in the middle of the mean water temperature the UK experiences during summer and autumn months. Making our waters perfect for great whites.
As a 50 yr old from Newfoundland, I grew up thinking Great Whites didn’t come to our waters because of the cold temps but after tracking these sharks, we now know that there’s loads of them in our waters. 😊
You'd think the same of Cape Town and it's Atlantic waters which are traditionally cold, but some of THE biggest GW's ever seen have been sighted around Cape Town, False Bay and surrounds.
We thought they weren't in our waters off the coast of South Carolina in the USA but came to find out they are. There is a nursery off of the coast of Charleston South Carolina. They ping here regularly. I haven't been in the ocean since this was discovered. There has even been an attack by one here years ago confirmed. They can be anywhere.
@@kiki29073 absolutely
They love cold water. What made you think they did not?
@@mikeoglen6848 Well there's cold water and COLD water...
Great video as always, its really sickening to know what we as a species have done to sharks. Hopefully people like yourself keep highlighting these things and one day (hopefully soon) it will end. Keep up the great content
Who's this 'we' you speak of, paleface?
Woah man take it easy there
@@hotlanta35 🙂...Long as we both know shark finning is NOT a western 'crime'.
What was sickening and traumatizing, was Sydney 22, and Egypt 23 attacks.
But anyway you carry on making yourself a better citizen.
@@Troubadour1681 why would I comment about those atrocities on a shark video?
I once saw a programme on Mediterranean gw sharks and a juvenile had been caught around Scilily. They believed between Scilily and the North African coast was believed to be a gw breeding area .
Great vid . Thank you
It's on RUclips, but cut into videos of around 10 minutes. A great documentary. Strange there aren't more like it. General awareness of great white sharks in the Mediterranean seems to be lacking for some reason.
@@takkiejakkie5458 Thank you for that
@@rikmorley1729 No thanks! (Jaws of the Mediterranean Shark Week `97 pt1)
@@takkiejakkie5458 Thanks a lot. Seems a long time ago i saw that . Not certain but i don't think there's a lot on Mediterranean gw
This summer will confirm we have white sharks 🦈 here in 🇬🇧 waters! I’m following your adventures with excitement 🤩 keep up the great work 👍
This is the year they officially find a GW in UK waters can feel it. We know they’re here
I predict shark themed rides, rock and ice cream.
Keep the vids coming fella, love the channel and all its variations 👍
I think its foolish to think they aren't here. The water temp is fine, the food is here and they're so nomadic it would be stupid to think they haven't been here. They're in the med and they're barely spotted in clearer waters, so seeing one here would be even harder. I hope they enjoy their stay and we can have a confirmed sighting soon.
I sincerely hope you, personally, get a sighting. Preferably when you are out swimming in the sea off a beach...
Too many orca there would be dead sharks washing up on shore ...
@@jacobrobsolino5666 Not at all. White shark populations globally are low, our numbers would be incredibly low, so the chances of that happening are slim to none. They would most likely be in our southern waters, so not really any chance of orcas and my guess would most likely be immature ones for the most part as they wander more. Juveniles wouldn’t be inclined to be in close proximity with orcas and seals wouldn’t be their primary food source, so they probably wouldn’t go up north/Scotland.
@@mikeoglen6848 Thanks Mike! Hopefully she’s just curious, if not, not a bad way to go out. Much love.
@@MrZexyy true, seen some great drone videos of swimmers and boarders doing their thing with White sharks cruising beneath them and the swimmers don't even realize they are there. Unfortunately some people will die due to a curious white shark (globally) but by and large they just don't seem that interested in us. Now, if it were bull or Tiger sharks it might be a different story.
I am more suprised we don't see more than we do. Just cause it's not seen, don't necessary mean it's never there.
Looking forward to Ocearch research.
Plus I hope one day they re tag their first big great white sharks again, as Lydia (that was close to UK), Katherina and more.
Great video. Hope the new cameras gives you awesome video clips.
I love a goth dominatrix how much for 1 hour of sadistic domination?
I was talking to my uncle on the phone today and I never heard him talk the way he did today, he was basically shit. fucking. scared... and he LOVES the sea. basically right, he goes fishing (with rods) using kayaks and canoes off the Devonshire coast. He was out all weekend just gone and he said that on Saturday he saw something breach the water wayyyyy off in the distance like miles basically. anyway he thought it was a little odd but honestly thought nothing more of it and had a great few hours out on the water. then the next day, Sunday, he goes out in his canoe, its a two man open top canoe he said, and hes just put his oar down and is setting up his rod when under the canoe swims what he can only describe as a great white shark. He said he's seen basking sharks many times in his life and he knew instantly this wasnt one. he said he saw the white of the sharks underbelly on its side as if it was painted on he said and when it turned he saw its huge black eye looking right back at him. I actually believe my uncle because he went home. he said he turned the canoe around and went home he was so shaken by it.
@ThEmperorIsDead in response to your comment my uncle said "a porbeagle the size of a shipping container?" He said "the shark I saw has probably eaten a few porbeagles"
Love your TELEVISION QUALITY videos. (It usually takes a TEAM of people to produce TV content of this quality...) Your research, observations and enthusiasm for the items/subjects is truly involving and engaging. (The good looks and honest likeable persona doesn't hurt!!!)
Given that Blue Sharks, Makos, Porbeagles and other shark species are relatively common in British/Irish waters it is not impossible that Great White fish might pay us an occasional visit. (They are known travellers, it would be ODD if they hadn't found themselves in our waters...)
The water temp is within their capability and prey is abundant.
But so far no DEFINITE sightings.
EXPLORERS/NATURALISTS such as yourself provide those of us who are interested with a lot to consider and think upon.
As a sport scuba diver myself, I've dived off the Isle Of Man. (Only time I've ever seen a Cuttlefish!!!)
Keep doing what you do. (BRILLIANT, engaging, entertaining, educational and involving content...)
xx SF
Great to see your channel again , I think this will be the year that we will see a great white shark in British waters
Keep up the good work
That it's to cold water argument have i never understood.
Great Whites are not a tropical shark, they love this kind of summer temperatures between 12 and 22 Celsius.
So why shouldn't they already bee there
There was a 14ft Mako in Wales a couple of years ago. And a 12 foot Mako sadly washed up there too.
Uk would be perfect for white sharks.
The tooth shown is certainly a fossil tooth. The darker discolouration showing through the enamel is a give away as mineral deposit.
I have been to Sicily many times over the last 40 years and visit and stay on the Egadi Islands of the west coast of Sicily. In particular the island of Favignana is famous for the Mattanza or netting and capture of blue fin tuna. Sadly the practice has seen a major decline in recent decades and sometimes no tuna are caught now that industrial fishing takes place and the tuna are caught mechanically by (mostly) Korean or Japanese fishing boats. There is one cafe/taverna in Favignana I eat or drink coffee in, where the walls are lined with many photos of great white sharks caught at the same time the fishermen spear the tuna and these photos are all from recent times, certainly from the 60's/70's/80's as some of the fishermen in the pictures were/are still alive and recognisable in the pictures themselves and the great white sharks in the pictures are very large. There are also many newspaper clippings and several specimens caught are between 4m-5m in length. With the decline and almost extinction of blue fin tuna from the Mediterranean I can only imagine the great white population in the Med is struggling or at serious risk and may be moving out from there and beginning to head north. It was also believed that the large female sharks caught were breeding sharks from the north Atlantic and gave birth in the Mediterranean. Anyway plenty of evidence of photos of great whites in Sicily than the example you reference in the 1900's.
Thank you I saw a documentary on this place Favignana and they have some shark fins on-a. Wall there too?
@@AirbornePirates Yes they do. Feel very nervous swimming off the island I must admit!
Thank you for your insight and very interesting content and analysis. As always excellent.
A family friend , a respected local fisherman in penzance/newlyn in Cornwall swears blind that many years ago 1980,s and 1990’s he spotted white sharks in mounts bay . Nobody believed him but I’m starting to wonder if he wasn’t that crazy after all !
Probably basking sharks
😂😂😂
No . The fisherman knows his stuff . Believe it or not ! Your opinion doesn’t matter here .
Sit and swivel🖕🏼
Another awesome video.
I caught a 6ft blue shark off Cornwall a couple of years ago, and saw a thresher jump, so knowing the conditions of the water that Great Whites frequent, I'd be very surprised if there isn't the odd few that migrate our way.
Living on the East coast of Britain is a bit annoying, as we don't get those kind of sharks our way.😔
I'd absolutely love to go to the west coast next summer, and try shark fishing/spotting again, just to see what else could be around.👍
Keep up the great work and videos!👍
It would be wonderful just to stick to the shark spotting instead of catching them. We really need to respect sharks and they need to be protected. I hope you have a great time out on the sea. Please don't think I'm being rude towards you, that's not my intent. All the best to you 😊
Just cut off the fins and put the shark back.
Shark fishing..So you kill them then.
@@charlotterockel-kennedy8913
Perhaps he could do the attracting bit and just swim next to them and see if they bite…
…EDIT: sarcasm
@@monkeyseemonkeydo432 now that sounds like a good plan 🤣👍
Great video again. I've got the app the kids love tracking the sharks. I'm off to lanzarote next week hopefully do a fair bit of scuba diving around the coast it's ment to have great sea life.
A fascinating vlog mate, its nice to listen to the information and data from yourself, you definitely need your own tv channel, i could watch your vids all day!!!!!!!
In 1977 I was actually in La Rochelle swimming in the sea, went there on a school exchange for two weeks 😅 that's probably why they never returned after seeing me 😂 Great video, I'm hooked on watching your videos ❤
Absolute unit mate
Another great video and exciting to learn that OCEARCH is charting a course our way. I'm particularly eager to see what the West of Ireland reveals, given its status as a hotspot for tuna right now.
Let's delve into my perspective on the northward migration of sharks. While some may argue it's due to seals, I firmly believe it's the tuna mirgations that primarily draw white sharks north.
Consider this: despite the ever-present endangered Great White Sharks in the Mediterranean, we're witnessing a steep decline in sightings. This drop-off could be attributed to the unfortunate decline of the Mediterranean Monk Seal and it is my view that white sharks have mostly adapted their diet towards fish such as Tuna and, perhaps, dolphins. With the number of Monk seals dwindling, these predators may not need to venture in-shore as often, which might explain the infrequent human encounters in the Mediterranean compared to other regions.
Looking at history, when Monk Seals thrived in the Mediterranean, Great Whites likely ventured in-shore more frequently, resulting in more human interactions. But with seals no longer abundant, this behaviour may have changed.
Still, compelling research points to significant nursery areas for these sharks near Lampedusa, in the Pelagie Islands, Italy, emphasising the Strait of Sicily's importance as a breeding ground. Historically, Sicilian fishermen sometimes found white sharks in their nets while fishing for tuna using the "La Mattanza" method.
Evidence suggests the Mediterranean may have other breeding areas, especially in the east (Greece, Turkey), where predator populations are relatively low. But research does suggest white sharks are known to pass through the Straits of Gibraltar. Some suggest Eastern seaboard white shark cross the Atlantic to breed in the safe waters of the Med - I don't believe that to be case. Med sharks are distinct from this group and more closely related to Australian white sharks.
But given the sightings here in the UK and in Ireland it does warrant further investigation. I'm sure we can round up a few wealthy philanthropists on the Isle of Man - they'll be cueing up to fund OCEARCH after seeing another smashing video from Island Outdoors.
Great video Matt!! Sooo excited about Ocearch 🦈 !!
Can't wait!
Great stuff as always, interesting about that tooth found off Arran. I live on the NW tip of Ireland & am often snorkeling or in our boat, nothing seen as yet, but always looking 🧐😏
Im positive there are GWs in UK waters. I live on the East coast of New Zealands north island. Our area isnt a national hot spot for them but they are there in numbers, commuting between harbours where baitfish are abundant & Seal colonies further south & as in your vid at Campbell Island. Cooler temps certainly dont seem to govern their range, Alaska has them & its on a colder lattitude than the UK. I firmly believe they are present but not in the same abundance. It will only be a matter of time before theres a positive identification.
water temp doesnt necessarily correlate to latitude.... the water temp in nova scotia is far colder than any water temp on a corresponding latitude on the other side of the Atlantic, due to the effects of the Gulf Stream which keeps those parts of the UK and Ireland warmer than their latitude would suggest.... and nova scotia has always had significant numbers of Great Whites. the idea that they are warm water sharks is revisionist climate change bullshite.
I have family in Taranaki 😬🤙
Lol NZ is a hot spot for GW 😅😅😅😅😅
@@Endo-uu8mo If you read what I put you would see I never said it wasnt. I referred to the area of NZ where I live - it isnt a national hot spot for them. They are here but not in congregation as they are in other parts of NZ. Hot spots are Chatham Islands, Stewart Island, Campbell Island, Matakana harbour, Manukau harbour & a few other places. I live in Gisborne & will add - I know a guy who dived Aeriel reef about 12 yrs ago, its 14km off gissy, he had a very close & uncomfortable encounter with a very big female - he really did think his days were over but by a stroke of luck managed to surface & get back on the boat. The shark surfaced & was longer than the boat that was 18ft long. The guy was a very keen surfer, diver & the like & has not dived since. A staunch type of chap his encounter was so full on he ended up with PTSD over the whole ordeal.
@@daynasmum529 Phred the biggest Male GW lives there hes 6m20
Thing is, many folks are surprised why there are NOT white sharks in UK waters; they adapt to cooler temps (and anyway, the Gulf Stream allows even Mako sharks to show up) there are smaller relatives like the Porbeagle, there are seal colonies etc...
they dont have to adapt to cold temps, that is their primary habitat, always has been.
Exactly But if they were here, there would be no discussion. We'd just know. Look how many people and boats crowd the South and West coasts. People all over the coast, hiring a boat for a day of fishing, and casually throwing fish guts in the water, people paddle boarding everywhere, beaches that are crowded every time the sun peeks out for 10 minutes...And all we get is the occasional guy on a boat who winds people up by telling them a basking shark is a great white
@@ashscott6068 what is the history of the seal population in the UK/Ireland? have they always been very numerous or was there a period where they were hunted and reduced significantly? the nearest populations of Great whites would be to the south, off of France, and in the Med, but those sharks would be used to looking for different types of prey, seals wouldnt be their primary interest, though of course they are opportunistic and will eat anything they can catch...
@@ashscott6068 apparently seals almost disappeared, for many years, with populations far below what it would take to support a permanent population of great whites... so, if they were ever here, they left, or died out. the seals are coming back with a bang, so expect to see the predators come back at some point as well...
Pretty sure 1 was seen back in 2018, probably been seen b4 then also.
Good morning, being a massive jaws fan I’ve just recently stumbled across your channel which I find fascinating . I was over in cape cod in may and did the trip to Martha’s Vineyard aka amity .I’m going to share the hell out of your videos. Keep up the fantastic videos we have to save the worlds sharks 🦈
Nice video, great information, hoping you get some luck on catching some sharks in your next video.
gone through my books and the only tooth that looks like that is a GWS tooth. There's others similar, but not quite like that. The Water Wolf is really good, i've used one for lure fishing for pike. Pike ignored the lure and bit the bloody camera!! Good job I used 65lb wire and 80lb braid to avoid issues.
Thanks for another really informative and exciting video. I found it particularly interesting that the Great White population has grown so much on the US East Coast in the last fifty years. I grew up in the Outer Hebrides and sadly, I didn’t see a Great White 😁 but here’s hoping for the future 😅. I can’t quite believe it, but as you’ve rightly said, why not? An abundance of seals and correct water temperatures. Thanks for all your research.
How's it going delighted to hear this 😊❤️ love your videos keep them coming 😎 it would be great if this happened I'd love to see the great white shark... I'm really excited for this to happen... I live in Ireland so it would be interesting if they visited the coast of Ireland aswell❤❤❤❤ thanks for sharing this great news😊 looking forward to seeing what happens next.,we have great conditions for the great white here plenty of seals and moderate water temperature they could survive here.. hoping they come soon... I'd be the first to jump in a boat to see them😊 I've wanted this to happen for years..
I live on the Isle of Arran, too many seals for there not to be sharks, love your videos mate.
I want to visit one day looks amazing 🤩
People have known GWS have been in British waters for ever. It's only since 1977 and "Jaws" came out, that it posed any kind of issue. The fact that they're rarely seen and even then, mostly by Fishermen, (who are notorious for tall stories) isn't unusual. I think this 'research' is part of a soft reveal, that they're rolling out, so that when the inevitable happens, and we have proof of them, people won't panic and stop going to the beaches.
Every couple of years there's a report of a great white sighting off the Cornish coast.
@@user-zp4ge3yp2o I lived in St Ives in the 80s, and I know fishermen who've seen them more than once, usually when they'd been re-baiting and shooting away lines of crab pots. Seeing Sharks isn't even unusual when you're chucking 400 1lb lumps of chopped up fish into a known Oceanic Shark fishing mecca. And there's a much healthier and more varied Shark population in Cornwall today, which I'm sure is at least partly down to the return of Bluefin Tuna to British waters.
Another fantastic video👍 I really appreciate the effort you put into these videos, a smile always comes to my face when I see you have uploaded a new video (especially shark videos)👍🏴
There was reports of a great White being found washed up in Spain at Tossa de Mar ,with the remains of a young girl in its insides, back in the day . Other reports of sardine fishermen in the area of the Greek islands spotting great whites . The Med is thought to be a breeding area for great whites . If that tooth is from a baby great white ,your gonna need a bigger boat . 🦈
They are off the coast around Torbay, have been for more than 30 years. Instead of chumming, use an electrical pulse of 400 milivolts at 92 pulses per minute, 2 mm copper wire on your drag seal and drag it behind the boat.
The hype is unreal 🔥🔥🔥 me want to see a Great white from Blackpool Pier
I watched a programme on Great Whites in the Med. Tuna fishermen say that they stay down at 30 m depth then come up fast to take the tuna. The tuna migrate out from the Med after spawning and the Great Whites must follow them. I assume that the water gets warmer from July to September. So they could be following the tuna but turn around before getting up to big seal areas.
I'm a surfer on the Brittany coast. I have been surfing all the time since 2001 and the water is curiously warm this year. Will have to get the app to check where those sharks are 😂
Good to see you back on the shark trail again. Thanks for the update.
I live near Phillip Island in Victoria Australia… (heaps of surfers love the place but we ALL know that the whites eat the seals… breed here… and roam the worlds oceans… we have a preserved white shark called Rosie in a big tank…
I’d guarantee they’re in your climate…
Theyre already here. When I was working the coastal waters of Devon and Cornwall in the '80s we saw a few. A mile or so out.
Im in lreland. Years ago a beautiful Blue Shark was caught and brought in to Youghal ('Yahawl') Harbour. I cried for two days! Its was incredible beautiful, the colour of the blue sky and dead. Blues are around lreland so lm pretty sure Whites are too. You should see the big fat seals here!
I personally believe they come further down the channel to the chalk waters as it’s a perfect hunting ground for them.
i used to canoe around the Isle of Arran, had family that lived there, absolutely beautiful island :)
Did my med undergrad and MSc in Plymouth and swam a lot, would be awesome to think that maybe we are sharing those waters in white sharks. Really hope ocearch finds evidence of them swimming around. Thanks for the update on it was wondering when they'd pop over. Cheers.
No doubt in my mind that they are here, no reason why they shouldn’t be.
I hope you see a great white when your out on your adventures, just make sure you stay in your boat lol
I’m sure there will be GWS sighting off the West of Ireland , Scotland , Cornwall in the future . Who’s to say they weren’t here in the past before records began . Perhaps they were in Cape Cod before and have just returned . Maybe the last time there were there was before Europeans had ever set foot there!
Great work mate, lets find these great whites soon
There's a lot of marine life off the north west coast of Scotland. Was up in Knoydart last summer and there were plenty of mackerel about, plenty of seals and porpoises and even minke whale feeding on them. Would not surprise me if great whites are also there feeding on the seals.
Bummer that Osearch aren’t coming this year but at least I can look forward to you finally catching a fish…. maybe😂
Great video again mate👍🏻 Always look forward to your posts👍🏻👍🏻
Growing up Fishing in Australia i can say if there are Great whites it wont take long to get evidance . they are generally very inquisative and will pass very close to a stationary boat if they are in the area.
Cracking video. After watching jaws i had endless nightmares🤣 but i still find them fascinating im sure its not just white sharks that visit our shores. I watched a program i believe it was river monsters that suggested Greenland sharks were responsible for some of the loch ness monster sightings whats your take on that out of interest?
im the type of person that i need to see with my own eyes! but i also dont know what lives beneath the seas of this world..so im never surprised when new species are found or if a great white is spotted off the english coast!
100% here. Swimming in the sea all my life. Was in for a dawn swin when the weather was nice. There was one other person in the cove & at exactly the same time both of us stopped & turned for shore. The only time i have ever been scared out of water. Both of us felt there was something else in the water. Never happened since but wont ever forget it.
You do know there are Porbeagles and Makos in our water right?
@@robayre482 Im probably better off not knowing what was in the water that morning but it spooked 2 strangers to react in the same way at the same time.
It’s too shallow around the UK for great whites. They like to dive very very deep… up to 4000ft!! We don’t even have 500ft of depth.
@@felixlieter1429 so you don’t actually know but they’re 100% here 😅
Wow, you never saw anything, you never heard anything but you just felt it? With scientific evidence like that, it's got to be true!
I think the Waxham sighting is a shark, it seems to be swimming along and the other seals have pushed in close to shore. Do you remember the seal pup bitten in half picture from Weybourne I sent you last year? That’s just up the way from Waxham
Nah that's a seal bottling. Doesn't look like a shark's dorsal fin.
Confirmed great white sightings on the sw and nw of ireland over the last few years. And also the tooth looks a bit similar to a bull shark
What was scary is how many people believed my shark fin was a basking shark and wanted to jump in for a swim with it.
People watch too many Ocean Ramsey videos
There not really a dangerous shark. Just the size and rough skin. Take caution and you should be fine to swim with a basking shark.
Cracking video again butt! You still planning on chuming on the Welsh coast?
I am indeed but need to buy a new engine for my boat first! Mine is playing up 🥴
you will hit the jackpot one of these days, and I want to see it.
They've been known to frequent British waters for _decades_
The expedition begins. I reckon there’s a fair chance GW’s are in our waters.
These are absolutely beautiful creatures… who’ve lived for millions of years and have evolved… they have learnt to adapt
Far more smarter than humans will ever be
I’m massively against shark hunting. These creatures are not attacking humans because we are an easy meal… it’s simply mistaken identity. Great White Sharks have thousands of taste buds in their mouths, they mainly bite to test what they are stumbling upon… and 9/10 times spit us boney, pathetic humans out because we ain’t got the blubber they are seeking.
From the murky depths of the ocean from where they hunt, from below, looking up to someone on a surf board a human resembles a very similar shape, silhouette and low frequency of sound of elephant seals and seals which is their primary source of food.
Unfortunately, because to a shark, a human has the same density as a trout with not much meat and lots of bones have to us. But due to their size, the test bite has often come from a 40mph strike from underneath as they are ambush apex predators. The result is often fatal.
And for your information, The Bull Shark is far more dangerous and far more aggressive and what makes the Bull Shark particularly dangerous is the fact it’s Euryhaline, which means it can live in fresh water, brackish water, or salt water.
Unlike the Tiger Shark or Great White. Where they prefer warmer waters. If you don’t really understand sharks like I do, Bull Sharks can look like Great Whites in a panic situation.
And tiger sharks have been scientifically proven to have beautiful personalities and can remember marine biologists and there have been several stories of humans having 15-20 year friendships with Tiger Sharks and recognise they are in their vicinity by recognising their boat by sound and shape.
I do believe films like Jaws have given humans a completely misunderstood and inaccurate understanding about these magnificent creatures.
Remember, we are in their territory… they are not in our territory. We need to learn to change our views on these animals.
I believe they are in UK waters for sure, only a matter of time before one is caught. I don't think enough fishermen Target them properly. Yes lots of anglers fish for sharks and there has been no bi-catch. We need to keep in mind it's the apex predator and have a complete different feeding pattern and prey
yet they have had a huge shark fishing festival in Cornwall every year since 1960 with dozens of boats out chumming off Cornwall's coast for 6 days straight plus all the charters for shark fishing the rest of the year all around the UK and Ireland yet there has never been one caught or come to a boat chumming. on top of that our waters see some of the heaviest commercial fishing and never has one been trawled up but every other species of shark in our waters have been. and where there are seals you get seal watching tour boats yet never has a great white been observed feeding on them with those 1000's of people every year going out on these tourist trips.
Very engaging and educational mate. Brilliant!
Glad you enjoyed it mate, not long until we go snarking together 🦈😬
Another epic video.. Nice Thrudark apparel fella 🫡
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Interesting as always! I hope you have the touch and prove one of these wee beasties are out there. Would be fantastic!
Good luck. Love all the new equipment.
When they do arrive, I hope you're the first to spot and film one. You deserve it!
Enjoyed the pod-cast and informative - However, the pictures at 5.38 appears to be of the famous 22ft Cuban White Shark - not Sicilian, although I stand to be corrected. The largest White Shark ever caught in the Mediterranean was April 1987. A Maltese fisherman caught a White shark which measured in at 23ft 6ins off Malta and although there have obviously been reports of other larger Whites from around the world and within the last 100 years, this Maltese White Shark was fully authenticated.
Thanks for the correction, I believe after some digging you are spot on with that 👍
It wasn't fully authenticated as 23 ft. There is still debate as to the size.
Fergusson (1998c) analysed photographs of the Malta specimen taken by John Gullaumier and concluded the TL was likely closer to between just 520 and 550 cm. Fergusson (2000) affirmed that the shark was no larger than 550 cm TL.
Italian white shark expert De Maddalena claimed it was most likely an overestimate.
Just looking at the images, if that shark is 23 feet, then those Maltese people are a race of 7 foot giants.
I totally agree, Whites deffinately visit imo. Whe have a few species of sharks which are hardly ever seen so chances of spotting a white would be slim especially because our seas are among the busiest shipping waters in the world and makes sense that sharks will try to avoid the noise so will rarely break the surface
While the water here IS plenty warm enough for great Whites, and there's a fuckton of food for them, I don't find those compelling reasons to believe they're here. Mars might be covered in Jungle where every tree is a banana tree, but I wouldn't expect to find monkeys there, cus of the whole problem of swinging from tree to tree and getting from one planet to another. Why would these sharks make a long and pointless journey, away from where they KNOW they have food, not knowing what they'll find? And, let's face it: They'd hit the South West coast first, where there are a LOT of seals, and a LOT of people. If they were coming here, it wouldn't even be a question. We wouldn't just get the one or two sketchy reports a year, from people trying to sucker in a bit of extra tourism. We'd have countless, hi-def, undeniable videos.
If they're coming here, it's not for food. Maybe the occasional individual comes here cus he got bullied away from other areas and out-competed for breeding rights and food. But if it was just a normal behaviour, we wouldn't be having the discussion; we'd just be watching all the footage.
You're gonna need a bigger chumming bucket , I was watching some South Africans chumming, and their bucket was about a metre in depth , half a metre in diameter, and it was about 3/4 empty when sharks started showing up ...Good luck bud ✌️👨🚒👩🚒💯
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That tooth is easily the best evidence for whites in the UK. They have pretty distinctive teeth as you say other macro predatory sharks their teeth are all different and none quite match the great white. It's narrow but great white teeth are like that. The broad triangular teeth are the top jaw the lower jaw is narrower. So yeah I'd put money on this being a lower tooth of a juvenile white. Best of all, it's not fossilised. Not only can it be carbon dated (it could still be hundreds of years old) but it is possible a DNA sample could be extracted from the root, then we could know the species without question.
I live by the sea in Cornwall and I talk to the fishermen and they said they have seen some great white sharks in recent years! I’m not swimming anymore in the sea!🔥
I genuinely think they do come to our waters but like you say it will be at the seal colonies and they tend to not be surrounded by too much human activity in the water to come into contact with them or to see them from shore. It’s really not that far from the med also like you say. I think it’s only a matter of time. Before too long it will be a normal thing to see one I think.
With the effect you put in mate, I hope you're the 1st person to conform. There are elite sharks in uk waters
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I'm quite interested on the seal decoy and seeing what happens.
I always recommend on looking for the right habitat where there is a food source and also the timing. I always suggest either dusk or dawn because that's when sharks are more active in hunting.
I’m from Norfolk uk and the sea was so warm last summer when it hit 38 in Great Yarmouth .. would of been very possible and warm enough for them .also we have a lot of there prey seals close at scroby sands
I read that Great Whites are primarily attracted by sound rather than smell and that AC/DC heavy rock played underwater seems to attract them according to an Australian tour operator. I reckon if you play some "Dirty deeds done dirt cheap" underwater through a mega underwater woofer..... it could lure in some of the aussie beasts .....sound travels faster and further than chum..... 😂
Always love your videos mate
Great White: 🎵"Oh I do like to be beside the seaside. Oh I do like to be beside the sea!"🎵
Don't think there's any reason why they wouldn't pass through but think you need a nearby continental shelf for them to stay for any extended time
Great video and always very informative and interesting thank you
Now appearing as Mr Caiques and not Stan, but hey ho.... look at our attitude; they've been found in Alaska - known for its tropical beaches... "They should be..."...and they will be, but how many people are looking? I'm four hundred feet up a hill overlooking the bay, and unless you look at it all day, every day, you won't even see the resident pod of dolphins let alone a fin or breaching GW. The bay is like a mill pond tonight and any fin slicing through the water would, most likely, be seen by somebody. Temps - we're in the Goldilocks zone because the Gulf Stream ends in the north sea - right outside my living room window (I do glance frequently at it but that's the end of my scientific research). I'd love to rent a cage once we find one and crawl in there. I bet they're big buggers here too and mostly like their relatives in Oz where you went cage diving, ours may not, in fact, breach a lot. In the Hebrides, it may be a different scenario. At any rate, it will still only be half a second's worth.
One time, I caught a 16-footer off Montauk.
Had to stick two barrels in him.
Two to wear him down and bring him up.
Great white be like, "off to Cornwall for a pasty and ice-cream."😂
Great video very enjoyable
I usually stay out of the great white debate but I like this video, I work off the Atlantic coast in Cornwall and get asked about them a lot, I agree with the science we have a pretty good environment for them but there's just not enough of them left. Still so many cool ones, I did work with that Greenland shark that came up and couple of years ago.
Unusual question, trying to place your accent, I'm from Stoke originally, you around that neck of the woods?
Thank you bud for your comment, I’m from Isle of Man so we have a similar accent 👍
Another great video I’ve been binge watching your U.K. shark series, I stay on the east coast of Scotland, have you ever thought about great whites in the North Sea I’m sure there been sightings etc and I know we get orcas and loads of species of whales
Anyway can’t wait for the next shark video 🙌
There is lots of seals in the North Sea I wouldn't be surprised if one was to show up.
When you said great white spotted In in wales that sent a chill through me I swim over the Swansea bay coast
If it's not a Great White tooth, it's damn close!
Another great video. Keep them coming!