British Great White Shark Expedition 2011

[@griffith500tvr]

Simon Spear is the same guy who did the unsuccessful White Shark expedition in the Mediterranean, no?

[@thomasrosendahl2783]

i think that the expedition was way to late in the year, white sharks leave massachusetts coastline through october/early november and the water there is a bit warmer than scotlands northwest coast. it would have made more sense to head out from the Devon or Cornwall coast, where there also is seal colonies.

[@traceyflynn5616]

Thomas Rosendahl there are huge seal colonies in that area.

[@perhapsfreddie8434]

Thomas Rosendahl I live in south Devon and one a teacher at my school don’t know if you saw the news report was bitten by a shark or a dogfish. A crocodile shark washed up dead to. That beach has seen lots of big fish

[@brianjacob8728]

Yup. Time of year and locations are critical to success here. Almost wonder if who ever funded their study didn't want any verifiable proof found that would dissuade UKers from still going to the beaches.

[@borderlands6606]

A worthwhile expedition if very optimistic. People who spend their lives at sea and are familiar with every creature in it, see a GWS once in a blue moon. If a camera were left in a hotspot for a season, and a lobster fisherman replaced the battery once a day they "might" have a chance of spotting one. I don't believe they're round Britain in the numbers to catch one on a fortnight trip, but are undoubtedly visitors to it.

[@quit4894]

Borderlands great whites lurk extremely deep and attack their pray from below so if they do inhabit uk waters it would be extremely difficult to spot one

[@CharlesCarabott]

I'm from Malta and even if GWS are not found in numbers as south Africa and Australia they are certainly here. I know of many people who go out to sea occasionally and see GWS. GWS are quite visible and like to get their heads out of the water. In the nineties people saw great whites from shore too. There are also videos taken of great whites from boats. So if great whites where in British waters they would have been seen and videoed

[@hulabiker21]

The expedition was more about checking the marine environments suitability for the GWS, compared to other areas worldwide that GWS are found. And to check any persistent signs left by GWS, such as scars on seals. They didn’t expect to see a GWS. They were also there to see what other shark species were present. All useful information, weather permitting!

[@glenmurschel5939]

Enjoyed this video and learning about the islands and marine life there. Thanks!

[@SV33381]

Porbeagle could easily be mistaken for a little great white to the untrained eye?

[@Andyontherocks]

Its time for an updated expedition. We need drones out along the south coast. I have no doubt they are there but i would like video footage.

[@sharkbite5744]

Andyontherocks none there you think we wouldn’t know yet?

[@Andyontherocks]

@@sharkbite5744 Are people actively looking? I have not heard of any searches or anything but i guess marine biologists are on it and it won't be news worthy until they find something like perhaps a seal dead/alive with bite marks. I don't suspect there is a population of them living off the coast but that doesn't mean that one or two don't make it into our waters. Here is hoping somebody comes up with concrete proof some time soon.

[@sharkbite5744]

Andyontherocks there are enough fishing boats charters etc for someone to capture something, even the English Channel one of the most busy waters in the world you get the odd loon saying they spotted a white but never any footage or pics, there’s no doubt that the prey they like is here I just think it’s to far north and there’s no need for them to come here maybe if the seals disappeared where they are they might venture to new grounds but till then we won’t be spotting them in our waters, but hey that’s not a bad thing.

[@sharkbite5744]

Humpty Dumpty you could be right my friend.

[@garybackstrom183]

Do people in England ever go to the beach to hang out and have fun , doesn’t seem very probable

[@st.apollonius5758]

The great white shark expedition without any sharks.....riveting.

[@lapalissiano]

Thank you for sparing me to watch the movie

[@frankjackson2359]

St. Apollonius me to

[@deniscarp9637]

St. Apollonius thanks saved 12 min 👍

[@keegan773]

St. Apollonius Thanks for your comment......I don't have to watch it now. P.s. Here's a shark for you.🦈

[@dougieroberts7045]

South west coast disherwomen trying to generate some tourist revenue, its well documented.

[@AAAA-ru1bd]

If sightings keep happening this frequent surely we should be getting video evidence soon

[@racinginfo8418]

The real reason Great Whites aren't seen and confirmed is they swim too deep, plus the Great White feeding grounds, are covered in Orca's when it's pup season, so Great White's won't risk getting in the way of Orca's. It's perfectly possible that Great Whites are in Scottish waters, but it will be rogue or lost ones, as opposed to any groups. But given Orca's use the Scottish waters as hunting grounds, there is every chance larger sharks can as well.

[@CharlesCarabott]

I don't think so? I'm from Malta and great whites are regularly seen and even videoed. Great whites feed on the surface and sometimes come close to shore as happened in the nineties here in Malta when GWS where seen from the beaches

[@islamicschoolofmemestudies]

@@CharlesCarabott you still see em around in 2020? I thought med great white went extinct? Any video link you've been talking about?

[@Eggnoodlesandketchup3]

@@islamicschoolofmemestudies the biggest gw captured was captured in Malta in 1987. Main area for gw's is between scicily and North Africa.

[@peterjohnson1332]

Certainly quite possible the Great White Shark occasionally enters UK waters. They travel huge distances and dont follow any rules saying they shouldnt visit an environment suitable to their requirements. ie water temperature, food source etc. The witnesses are credible. For example Skippers and fishermen who are familiar with Basking Shark, Porbeagle, Mako and also the gentleman speaking about his sighting in the video. Very good program, thanks for posting.

[@dougieroberts7045]

You are wrong, in fact, you couldn't be more wrong. They have a well documented route of travel, scientifically proven by those who study them by tagging them. You say they 'Don't follow any rules', again, you couldn't be more wrong, they clearly have lots of rules regarding their whereabouts, the reality is that humans don't understand those habits and automatically assume their behaviour is somehow within the constraints of what humans think it should be, you really couldn't be more wrong. Water temperature and food sources are what we immediately conclude are the main criteria, again, definitely not, we aren't sharks, its highly likely that conditions such as ocean bed terrain, oxygen content, tidal flow, current are far more important to such complicated animals. Credible witnesses. Even qualified specialists get it wrong. These are people who have spent their lives studying these animals, they are highly paid professionals. They aren't fisherman, skippers of boats who have zero experience in identifying Great White Sharks. Just about everything said in this video contradicts Great White Shark behaviour. To conclude. Its exactly this type of nonsense misinformation that causes problems.

[@m1t4v1ttu4]

@@dougieroberts7045 www.google.com/search?q=great+white+shark+uk+2021&client=ms-android-sonymobile-rev1&prmd=inv&sxsrf=ALeKk02j7GMNKeTMXWX7rY8P-_S6ErCrRg:1626438486807&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiO0YTCy-fxAhWw-ioKHTVEAXYQ_AUoA3oECAIQAw&biw=412&bih=832&dpr=2.63#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:18ca7152,vid:w-k19MsY3TM,st:0

[@peterjohnson8935]

@@dougieroberts7045 I was referring to rules made by humans that say great whites don't visit UK waters. Not the rules of nature.

[@D3xt3rity]

Firstly thank you for sharing this! Secondly, anyone else have a good chuckle when at 1:51 you can see a BT telephone box in the middle of nowhere XD

[@malisong9632]

There is no reason to believe, that white pointers are not visiting UK coastal waters. As said in the video; plenty of food, and the big, far-travelling predators of the oceans, like the great white, as well including orcas, will show off. At least, from time to time. I wish the SCS or other shark studying and/or documenting teams will, one day, have a chance to verify the theory. Press thumbs!

[@123evans5]

this is the reason I don't paddle in the sea no more

[@sanddonkey8738]

Our seals are too quick getting onto the rocks. Big sharks rarely bother coming past Portugal. Big seals I have encountered ,800 lbs, will bite the stern of my kayak which is classic defence against sharks so the seals are not unfamiliar with the idea of hunter sharks in our water. But the vast amounts of protein they need are just not accommodating.

[@rawdog314]

I'm not saying that I agree great whites are in British waters but your first two points are absolute bollocks,great whites are very effective ambush predators who can burst into powerful speeds to catch prey,in the Mediterranean there main diet consists of dolphins and tuna and your telling me our seals are too fast?secondly there are big sharks in the bay of Biscay and in the summer porbeagles and even makos visit our waters,big blue sharks also. As I said the food availability and the fact relations of great whites are already in our waters do not automatically mean great whites are here themselves and the distinct lack of evidence likely concludes there not here with any regularity or in great numbers,but the main puzzle to scientists is why there not,the great whites in this part of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean are probably the most elusive and mysterious in the world,I don't think the reason there not here is our seals are too fast 😂

[@weirdscience8341]

Weres the higjest seal population in the UK thats were ud start looking add bran flakes to the chum /rubby dubby mix also pig blood poured in the water get em going ive worked in sa doing cage diving tours thats the mix we used

[@CharlesCarabott]

We have no seals in the Mediterranean but we have great white sharks

[@MartiniScreamz]

Depends where in Mediterranean

[@thomasrosendahl2783]

There used to be a lot white sharks especially in the central part of the Mediterranean Sea. The last fatal shark attack was in 1989, near Elbas coast in north west Italy. And at that point the few last large white sharks have already been caught on Sicily and Maltas coast.

[@MainerdLoyd]

You had tuna though

[@garybackstrom183]

Maybe Jesus saw one

[@Judaspriest66624]

CharlesCarabott they come for Tuna

[@theonethatgotaway680]

Wow this is so fascinating!

[@markstubbs1973]

Are these trips still happening

[@simonspear]

Sadly no. There were insurance issues with running them I'm afraid so they have been completely mothballed

[@samuelmacleod2553]

I want to start funding for one

[@occupiedaustralia9952]

I live in Adelaide south Australia we call them smiley's.

[@clivemitchell4316]

Rumbled! 🤣

[@LS-vl6zd]

I trust the bloke. I can see the light of truth In his eyes. Phil is one of your own.

[@serverlan763]

You can have some of ours in Australia if you like? You are lucky not to have them, bloody things

[@CharlesCarabott]

We have them in the Mediterranean too

[@cliffcampbell8827]

We've got some big ones here off the west coast of north America (and central America, which seems to be a favorite haunt of Miss Deep Blue.... a great white estimated to be larger than 24 feet long). That animal has scared me almost to paralysis ever since the jaws movie, and I consider myself lucky to live close-ish to an area (the red triangle) that is frequented by white death sharks (a.k.a. white pointers, greatwhites, Tommy sharks, carcarnis carcarnidons....

[@weirdscience8341]

Why there amaximg and rarely eat people bullsharks on the other hand do and tiger sharks

[@CarolWorth]

Great music! (Even if no sharks were filmed). 😜🤗☹

[@jasonmehdwan173]

How Do I join?- Ex: R N.-Highly qualified Diver. I am very intrigued by your findings and would like to participate in further research activities

[@Danielharo492]

Jason Mehdwan lol 🤣

[@richardjeffery517]

Anyone ever used a dead seal pup as bait ,fishing near a seal colony ?

[@robinnool9983]

That's illegal😂

[@himhim3344]

@@robinnool9983 only if you get caught

[@drewpeacock9634]

Who funded this one ?

[@antifinning]

great work! Iam pretty sure they are out there somewhere ;)

[@tattooseverywhere1]

Great white sharks are in the Atlantic Ocean!!! yeah for sure!! Generally speaking it's pretty rare they spend much time in that area though, at least from what we know. But as a surfer from the east coast of the US.... I remember a time when a great white sighting was extremely rare here on the shores of Massachusetts? Now a days you hear about it happening every summer. So far no one seems to have any idea why that is but it's not gonna stop me from enjoying a good surf that's for sure.

[@weirdscience8341]

I've sufed were bull sharks are in heavy precence seen 4 fins once i got a good wave brougjt me close to shore i just paddled like mad when i got in my fin on the board was bitten off they were defo after me i still surf but my black board is never used as it looks to much like a seal

[@hookemups6710]

Come to Australia .Plenty here.

[@Angus1966]

The difference is mate , great whites eat Australians , they dont eat Englishmen out of respect.

[@barbaradyson6951]

silly idiot, good reply

[@quit4894]

Hookemups haha your very lucky to have such a magnificent animal in your areas

[@sobrevalorado]

a video about the weather

[@Shannon-LikeTheRiver]

loved this!!

[@clivemitchell4316]

@laz w bit off topic and random, but I guess herself 🙄

[@hairyfishcakes]

What did you love.....

[@CunningStuntsGoFast]

what i dont understand is how come they arent in uk waters and get spot regulary . i mean the watertemp is right the surroundings are right and there is food for them . they are seen anywhere where the factors are right except for britain ?

[@dougieroberts7045]

Theres lots of places in the world where Great White Sharks aren't found, most of them for closer to where they are found than GB and most of the places far more suitable working on a criteria that we think is suitable for Great White Sharks. The reality is very different. The top marine biologists in the world know very little about Great White Sharks. We base our criteria on what we think is ideal for Great White Sharks, which is a recipe for disaster given we know so little about them. We don't have a clue what Great White Sharks seek regarding habitat, we just assume its water temperature, depth of the water, food supply and again, the reality is likely completely diffferent and that is the reason we have never had Great Whites in our waters and most likely never will.

[@juliamcdonald-carberry146]

Great White Shark populations are still unknown but, with the rise in seal & sea lion populations worldwide, as well as global warming & the rise in sea levels, it wouldn't be surprising to find Great White Sharks turning up in places where they've frequently been unseen for many, many years when penniped populations were wiped out. Such as the case on the east coast of the U.S. where Great White's are now being seen regularly & in numbers. It would make sense they'd again be seen near the coast of the U.K., as they're warm blooded & hunt their prey in almost every ocean & sea on the planet.

[@davekkik2258]

great whites are an asset attacks on swimmers is rare and if they turn up in British waters you should be excited to have such a apex predictor around the coast forget the loch ness monster great whites are the real deal

[@CharlesCarabott]

No great whites where always present in Americas East coast as far as new York.

[@WesD85]

Spoiler alert... They end up not seeing any sharks due to bad weather.

[@toshe.6690]

if they were here there would be seals with severe injuries turning up on our beaches, as they do on cape cod. there is no doubt as to what attacked them, the injuries are that bad.

[@stephenphoenix-roberts9447]

I believe they are in are waters but only seasonal due to temperatures.

[@cliffcampbell8827]

Great white sharks are warm blooded and don't care that much about water temperature as long as they have plenty of fatty food to chomp on.

[@kevinkeelan354]

Cheaper and easier to use drones between June and September. The great white population has exploded in the last 15 years so their range should increase.

[@richardjeffery517]

Theyll be anywhere where its fairly warm near an abundance of seals,they wont pop their head out of the water saying,,hey you,im a great white,,,you didnt use a seal as bait?

[@cal-qw8ov]

Where still looking...

[@gibsondrummer]

If there are seals there are great white sharks

[@mombaassa]

3:32 - All that wind and not a wind turbine in sight.

[@orbszfn]

Its Wales lol its fucking windy here

[@mrianwonder6527]

There are great whites in the Med, the North Atlantic, and off the African coast. They would have to be deliberately avoiding the UK to not be found there. As with ALL cases, it is based on the number of people in the water, and Britain has very few people entering it's waters compared to places with more shark sightings. If we had as many people in th water as Australia we would have a comparable number of sightings and attacks.

[@3chords490]

British - Great - White - Shark Four words that I would rather not exist together in the same sentence.

[@highgate14]

did it vote SNP?

[@mrtrumpmrfaragemrjohnson324]

@Spongecake Squareshoes its not that dumb

[@markgarduno4597]

If there's a healthy Seal population anywhere near Great Britain, you can bet there are big predators hunting them down.

[@MartiniScreamz]

Britain has one of the biggest seal population in UK

[@orbszfn]

@@MartiniScreamz you've said twice now.

[@ielectrofreak2825]

Great whites sometimes travel from USA or Africa once and a while to come visit us brits, and hey we have a large amount of seals here, so its not really a suprise....and I'm also australian and I've encountered 3 in the 6 years I lived there... 0-6 and hey...I fucking love sharks

[@himhim3344]

Donald Mcdonald 😂

[@manosparavida3551]

I thought exactly the same. I imagined a character from 'The Fast Show'

[@jamesmcneill2119]

him him

[@aflaz171]

There is no doubt with the warming of waters around the world you will have the occasional unwanted visitor. In Australia where this is nothing uncommon, we are seeing big changes in a lot of shark species habits. The worst being a record time of shark attacks close in shore. Their patterns habits are definitely changing here. They travel vast distances and certainly have been satalite tagged swimming from Australia to Africa and back. They come home to mumma! 😀

[@mrianwonder6527]

No. You just have more people going into the water, NOT a change in shark behaviour. Your government doesn't want to limit or damage beach tourism and have tried to misrepresent the situation.

[@davekkik2258]

i cant see why great whites wouldn't be there we have them right around the coast of new Zealand including sub antarctic islands there quite happy in cold water

[@Migratelikeaduck]

Wait wait you want great whites in your waters?

[@johnmichaelwoolley2466]

got to be here

[@russelldavis8415]

Great whites were once common in the Med, perhaps it was even a breeding ground, most if not all have been killed off, I expect there will be some that travel from US coastline to Spain/France, and similarly from Africa, along the coastline to Spain , France, Med sea. Provided the populations continue to grow, I see no reason why they could not venture into UK waters in search of prey. Perhaps there might be more chance of seeing Greenland sharks in Scottish waters, as the climate would be more suitable for them?

[@frankhumbug]

Russell Davis, you might be right about Greenland sharks, though I think they actually like it quite a bit colder. As for the white shark, they don't have a problem with water temperature as they have an amazing internal heating process that keeps their vital organs warm. It's about food. Do they follow particularly migrational paths, I don't know. Do they prefer elephant seals to grey seals, I don't know. You would think though, that a seal colony would attract predators, it possible does.

[@CharlesCarabott]

GWS are still present in the Mediterranean as they are regularly sighted but true they have been killed and the decrease in tuna also meant that their favourite food was more difficult to find. But the tuna numbers have increased again and so probably even the great white sharks. And I heard that African refuges escaping in small boats where attacked by sharks

[@GrilloTheFlightless]

I’ve seen a documentary where they had a tracker placed on a Great White in Florida. The very same shark had later been tracked to South Africa and in the ocean off the south of Italy, so they definitely get about. Even in sightings in the Med are getting scarcer, the chances are that great whites from elsewhere still visit.

[@sobrevalorado]

GWs are seen every year in Jonian and Central Mediterranean seas

[@nathansimpson6521]

a was in bed wore bude in cornwall when a was a young lad and a was walking along the beach and there was half a dolphin dead on the beach a no there is porneagle sharks but were did the dolphin come from ? was 100% a half a dolphin there’s not dolphins in british waters is there ?

[@nathansimpson6521]

bede or bude ***

[@GrilloTheFlightless]

There are 5 species of dolphin known to swim in British waters, 3 of which are known to be frequent visitors to Cornish waters, as well as porpoises.

[@nylonic55yorkshire22]

Kranks,

[@Skylazay]

Porbeagle?

[@weirdscience8341]

Port beaahgle

[@csnelling4]

It’s not rocket science to identify the shark, a case you aren’t in our club and you can’t possibly identify a type of shark .prat

[@donnaanderson4352]

If you have seals then you could have a great white they love seals and cold water

[@CharlesCarabott]

No there are no seals in the Mediterranean but great whites are living there. The presence of seals doesn't mean there will be great whites. GWS will eat other sea creatures like tuna and blue sharks

[@SalTheUltimate]

@@CharlesCarabott in the med the feed of dolphins mainly

[@maxleeroy4454]

Will travel anywhere for food...

[@CharlesCarabott]

No they are not recorded everywhere, the seas around the UK and northwards are at least as far as is known not visited by GWSs. In the Atlantic they wont go further then Spain

[@h4b2_k66]

If you don’t have video evidence of you and great white siting in uk, no point saying it. Alot of people in uk say they saw but no video evidence of it lol, we live in a era with smart phones lol

[@allthingsbike.2574]

Shark expedition. 1 crab, 1 starfish! 👍🏻

[@fredaahmed5696]

😁

[@MaMu-fv8uo]

Donald McDonald. I wonder if he's Scottish?

[@aaronosborne4906]

I wonder if kids used to call him Ronald McDonald when he was younger :)

[@tyrone4228]

If there were great white sharks in the uk waters we would surely know by now it wouldn’t be speculation! I could be wrong but I don’t think it was great white these men seen 👍

[@givingbirthiseasy]

They're gonna need a smaller boat...

[@reggietrotter8187]

Love these big beautiful bad boys 👍🏻

[@elephantsmemory3142]

An Englishman and a Scot both pronouncing research in the American fashion W T F is happening to our native language

[@0leehewitt0]

Donald Mcdonald 😂😂

[@velociraptorwolf447]

Oh come on, Great White sharks in British Scotish waters seriously...???...😂😂😂. Not a single Great White was seen in your expedition either, jees I wonder why...???

[@himhim3344]

Well they have been caught in northern french waters so one wandering north to visit the brits is possible.

[@velociraptorwolf447]

@@himhim3344 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 🤡🤔🤡🤔🤡🤔🤡🤔🤡

[@karenpiotte90]

You find white sharks where there's a healthy seal population.

[@00lh02]

And they don't mind cooler waters being able to keep their body temperatures above the ambient temperature. Conditions are perfect

[@CharlesCarabott]

We have no seals in the Mediterranean but we certainly have great white sharks. GWS are not dependent on seals for food. In the Mediterranean they eat mostly tuna and dolphins and smaller sharks.

[@nylonic55yorkshire22]

Another daft video about great white sharks in british waters, all these videos have one thing in common and that is,,, theres never a great white shark appearing.

[@Englandsbestlover]

Probably a Porbeagle

[@coteye8526]

Englandsbestlover that's what I was thinking they are the only other shark that looks like a white shark. they are a close relative of them..

[@hsd7958]

carpet

[@georgezama]

Bad news for sea swimmers.

[@davekkik2258]

honestly they would rather have a seal attacks on humans are rare there have been attacks on surfers but they look like a tasty seal from under the water.

[@CharlesCarabott]

Sorry but GWS don't go any further north then France in the European side of the Atlantic

[@CommanderMcCool]

Great video! Good job, man! So you proofed, there are no sharks around. Even the native specimen are very rare. So? No great white sharks over there. And no other sharks found. Change the title - 'NO GREAT WHITE SHARKS IN GREAT BRITAIN'.

[@pludan8190]

I wanna catch one

[@LS-vl6zd]

Talk is cheap. It takes money to buy whiskey

[@dabspur8761]

I'll save you the 11:37 that i wasted with the answer; No they didnt find the man in the grey suit!

[@sharkbite5744]

Exactly fuck all

[@billfrater1948]

Love Sharks but i for one hope Whites are not in our waters.

[@pencils1951]

Rather pointless video.

[@jessicaferraro9971]

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