Jaws of the Mediterranean Shark Week `97 pt1

this is the start of "Jaws of the Mediterranean" one of my all-time favorite Shark Week documentaries.

[@stanleydaniels100]

This is my all time fav shark documentary hands down. I remembered this from the late 90's and now I get to see it again!!!!

[@badgalruth]

Mines as well. True and well documented. Remembering so many years prior.

[@stanleydaniels100]

@@badgalruth Thumbs up to that.

[@restartrestartreboot7838]

One! Yes! You are the one! 👆

[@synthsonics]

Classic! Back when Shark Week was something to get excited about !

[@Mark-tb5jk]

Remember watching this as a kid! Great documentary and sharks still fascinate me even more today 👍🏻

[@lotus240s]

I remember seeing this when I was little... so good to actually see it again

[@diogeniscruyff1084]

By far the best Shark documenatry ever ade and its amazingly unknown to the wide audience!i ve seen many of shark documentaries and this one has a unique way and originality as its not referenced to same things we alla know about sharks but takes a step further to tell the true stories of survivors and fishermen who actually exprerienced great white encounters in the med!which is a filed never to be explored so deep!

[@TheAustinz1234]

Awesome documentary!! One of the best, they just don't make them like this anymore!!

[@sullieking]

100% agree

[@melissasmith9322]

Mad ..I brought photos of this shark in the shop while on. Holiday in Malta.

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

Same...we went swimming at blue lagoon Camino Island the next day. Very nervous going into the water despite assurances that great whites were extremely rare. Too much Jaws!

[@julielabelle2783]

Great video, thank you for sharing.

[@ananonymoushen4339]

That 23 footer! What a crying shame to kill it! I wish they’d just measured it and let it go, because it was probably very very old. Maybe 50 to 70 years! What a pity.

[@Wareaglegirl9960]

That’s because they’re freaking pathetic and evil!! Stay out of their damn home and they wouldn’t get attacked

[@jessicasinmas]

yes, what a bloody shame, i couldn't watch of the sorrow it caused me, poor animal....honestly we humans are really something else..sometimes i feel embarrassed of being one

[@steveadams7940]

@@jessicasinmas yes how dreadful that this fish would most likey have eaten a few humans but hey a fish is far more important than man .how come the commercial fisheries who catch millions of pounds of tuna swordfish or even just sardines nobody cares? But this deadly animal that can and has been documented to swallow whole people everyone is so disturb about a stupid fish at 23 feet its brain is about the size of a walnut making it a animal of only instict to eat

[@steveadams7940]

It dosen't raise its young any animal that dosen't raise its own. is not a species thats capable of feeling anything other than hunger its not a dogs who is loyal and can feelnor recognize its master its a fish a stupid ancient man eating fish science has lied enough to make this monster a lil pet have you any idea how many attacks and deaths go unreported do to the loss of tourism they would face pay attention they call it a. Wildlife encounter never do they say oh a huge white shark swallowed a man today no they call it a Wildlife encounter people report these animals at 30 35 feet science says no 20 is max obviously they got that wrong

[@steveadams7940]

Notice science says sharks dont really reach more than 20 feet liver wont be buoyant but common sense the larger the shark.the bigger the liver or any other organs they say sharks dont eat humans they don't like the taste yet why are they consuming whole people Shirley ann Durden decapitated spilt in half and totally consumed? They never report that tho they just say a wildlife encounter really? Obviously they dont want the truth told because most likely people wouldn't go as much if tjey really knew what was in the water

[@irammendez8683]

REAL LIFE WISH THERE WERE MORE OF THIS ..GREAT VIDEO

[@RPenta]

best doc ever on GWS.

[@aporia82]

Bosphorus and the Marmara sea inhabited by the great sharks until thirty years ago. There are many records and photos of great whites since the 19th century. There was probably a great white attack in istanbul in 1980, a spear fisher died and his entire body never found. Recently, in 2008 two six month baby great whites accidentaly caught by turkish fishermans near the Gallipoli straight. The same year a spear fisher attacked in Croatia, lost his leg. They are still in the med.

[@RPenta]

It is great-some big whites in the ancient seas-makes you have more respect for Greek, Phoenician, Roman, etc. sailors of old.

[@dariuskasen9229]

I know I am pretty randomly asking but does anybody know of a good website to stream new series online?

[@bakermario7339]

@Darius Kasen Flixportal =)

[@dariuskasen9229]

@Baker Mario Thanks, signed up and it seems to work :D I appreciate it !!

[@bakermario7339]

@Darius Kasen Glad I could help :D

[@DrLeviathanxxx]

some of the biggest white pointers have been caught in the mediterranean, amazing.

[@yousmallfish5069]

they might not be with many in the Med, but they're big.

[@sasha5320]

Very much true, back in the late 70s I was a 15 year old obsessed with sharks after I saw " Jaws" and that summer we saw an enormous great white off the shore of Silba Island in Croatia. Nobody beleived us it was a great white but a blue shark usually infesting those waters but I know what I saw , clearly without any doubt a huge white shark , at the time we think it was a 18 foot shark because it swimmed very slowly past our small wooden boat and at that I all ready had a lot of books on sharks and specifically great whites so there's no way I could have mistaken that for anything else. Needles to mention that after that sighting I barely went back for a swim 🤣

[@TheChampionofthepeople]

This is the biggest great white shark ever caught in the history of mankind

[@jamesevans6335]

Such a sad loss of an awesome fish.

[@jmaa1084]

Until the 70s it was a very common shark near the Spanish coast. In fact, there are many photographs from the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s with captures of these animals, both those caught by fishermen in their nets and during tuna fishing, or those stranded on the coast. In the Balearic Islands they are known as "salroig". There are not so many of them anymore, like the 4 meter great white shark that ran aground in Tossa de Mar in 1992, but they are known to frequent the spanish waters.

[@SignedOff402]

Ships dumping waste attracts the sharks. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's book he referred to sharks being by the French Riviera due to ships waste in early 1900. "Tender is The Night"

[@scoobydoo936]

Wendy Davis sometimes, in this case it’s not. The Mediterranean is the breeding ground for great whites, at least that’s what scientists claim to have found out.

[@patkelly3966]

Wendy Davis, thank you for that reference.

[@shadow7gr]

I wonder if the jaws are on display somewhere in Malta as i am going for vacation there next month.

[@r1bew42]

I was born 1971 and was in Malta when I was 16yrs old so that would be 1987. I hired a windsurfer and ended up quite far out from St Pauls Bay. I had no idea that large sharks were present there. It makes me feel physically sick thinking what could of happened. Mad.

[@cliffoliva3505]

Damn this shark looks massive! More than deep blue 🤯

[@jamesgallagher1992]

Back when shark week had proper documentaries🙄

[@sharkboyben41]

The first few minutes are missing. The show opens with the full recreation of the fatal attack on Jack Smedley in 1956, which is retold by the surviving witness Tony Grech in part 4. One of my favorite classic Shark Week documentaries. The whites in the Med are big and lethal, most fatal attacks involve no retrieval of remains...😨

[@sharkboyben41]

Script of first few minutes: "The warm waters of the Mediterranean Sea seemed so inviting on that Friday afternoon, all those years ago. Jack Smedley was an English teacher at the British Naval school, Tony Grech was one of his students. As they took their leisurely swim in the clear waters of St. Thomas Bay, the two friends were unaware of the presence of a silent companion, swimming along beneath them. It's now known that their companion was Carcharadon carcharias, the Great White Shark...Tony Grech survived, but no trace of Jack Smeadley was ever found."

[@D_XDC]

The whites in the med aren't there to feed. If they were, there would be WAY more attacks. They go there to breed or give birth, I can't remember which. I nearly jumped on top of one in Spain, was a complete accident. And I believe it was a white, because of the location (empty, deep storm beach) and the way the water moved with such force as it propelled away (didn't have goggles unfortunately and was merky water). Was huge. I had a long swim back to shore (from the small cliffs I jumped from). For all I know it followed me back. Point is I'm here 😅

[@filipborin555]

@@sharkboyben41 Hi do you inow where can i found the really first scene with the attack includes Jack Smedley in Malta in 1957?

[@TRUTHISABSOLUTE777]

Yeah the sharks in the med are large and statistically the most lethal to human victims.

[@jcas5929]

full documentary can be seen on Tubitv as ""Sharks in the Mediterranean: On the Trail of Great White Sharks""

[@garyspence7270]

This programme was aired in 96 in the UK I'm sure.

[@ihateyoumother-fucker3204]

Tarifa, Spain - lovely place to go out for the day, great nightlife as well during the summer. Never knew you got great whites hanging around there though. Very interesting.

[@kornofulgur]

And great windsurfing/kitesurfing too

[@scottydoo29]

The shark was caught in malta

[@sharkboyben41]

He's referring to the first attack on Jose Luis Perez Diaz in 1986. First windsurfer in the world to be attacked by a white shark!

[@jessicasinmas]

not me either and i'm from the balearic islands , so i swim far , snorkel , dive...never heard we had sharks, quite the opposite

[@THp_90]

Στην Ελλάδα καταγράφηκε ένας από τους μεγαλύτερους λευκούς καρχαρίες παγκοσμίως. Το έτος 1973. Είχε μήκος 7,5 μέτρα και ζύγιζε 2,5 τόνους

[@midnightq69]

Why are people, especially shark enthusiasts, incapable of research? This is an outstanding documentary, doesn’t change the fact that the shark he claims is 23ft has had its jaws and photos reliably examined by many experts, and is actually around 18ft. I knew this over a decade ago through RESEARCH.

[@stamboli6455]

23 feet long, that was a monster shark!

[@sherman4970]

I still have this on video from the original airing. When you look at Deep Blue and then the size of the “23 ft” shark,, it looks like someone may be telling porkies?

[@florptytoo]

Insane. Nature is incredible, holy shit.

[@TheDemonGamerOfFleetStreet]

I went to Turkey back in 2004 and me and the family went out for a boat ride and the captain stopped not far off of the coast to let the holiday makers jump in and enjoy the warm waters at this like beauty spot. Anyhow after a short period of being in the water I remember seeing this really small 20 foot fishing boat pass right close to our bigger boat and I remembered hearing one of the men in the smaller boat shout something in their language of course to the captain on our boat. It turns out that what had happened is they'd spotted a man eater not far from where we was jumping in and the captain told everybody to get back in the boat and we moved on. I'm from the UK and Turkey in the grand scheme of things is not far from us at all it takes not long at all to get from Heathrow to Bodrum airport and considering its not that far at all they do have a totally different temperature and a totally different flora and fauna aswell as aquatic life. The Mediterranean Sea has Bull, Tiger, and White sharks not to mention Black Tips, Shortfin Mako, Hammerhead, Spinner and many more other species. I would not like to be anywhere in that ocean on my own at any time but more so in the evening to dusk or early morning at the crack of dawn. I could guarantee if you did a bait and chum line you'd find something out there that would take a man. I bet you any money that if you set up a chum line you would get one of the fatal three show up at some time.

[@martiansarepunk]

GWS research community has almost unanimously agreed the measurement was inaccurate if not made up entirely. Jaws and tooth size are noticably smaller than those on verifiable monsters like the sub 20 ft. mammoths at Prince Edward Island and Vic Hislops biggest catch. There is no doubt that shark was a leviathan about 18-19 ft. Same thing can be said of the 21 ft. from Cuba as well.

[@TheAustinz1234]

wth idk what your looking at but the shape of the teeth and size of the jaws that shark had to be at least 20ft!!!!! thats crazy there is a controversy about that catch.. i dont believe it was caught with a hook but that shark is massive it seems that the Atlantic great whites are the biggest!!!! but not as common as pacific or indian white sharks

[@larsjohansson3640]

Well, if you measure something twice to be certain, that is the only thing you can rely on. If I'm painting a bench with paint and after that, I'll put up a sign that says: "freshly painted." Everybody will put a finger on it to make sure it's freshly painted. Regarding sharks, a lot has happened (luckily) in resent years. For instance, the great white is the only fish, that sticks up it's head above the surface to inspect, for instance people on a boat. They're intelligent and curious animals. Unfortunately for us, they're big and have sharp teeth. And the only way for them to investigate us, when we enter our worst element (water), is to come close and bite. So it is.

[@ftgoggi4715]

Sorry dude but your wrong. Current thinking is that the study which called into question the original length measurements of both Malta and kanga was flawed. The most recent review of these two sharks (that I'm aware of) states that, on examination of all available evidence/information and using current understanding of white shark biology and current sizing methods, there is no reason to question the original measurements for both sharks. 👍

[@aronlane4664]

The jaw from the 18ft one looks very similar in size to the one he claims came from a 23 foot shark , in the same species that seems mighty odd considering that a 23 ft shark compared to an 18 footer is the same size difference as a 7ft 8 man compared to a 6ft man , i.e . a bloody huge size difference

[@filipborin555]

i dunno about this community but lets face it to measure of a fish isn't that difficult to be mistaken.What's the problem to be arround 7m.

[@jaywalker3553]

Damn that was a big ass shark holy crap hold my beer big blue 🥶

[@chrispyfriedchicken9648]

If his measurements are correct then that is also the biggest great white ever encountered, not just the largest caught

[@FlatlandMando]

That extra 5" on the 23 feet was from being stretched when they lifted it by the crane, then measured it flat! ( some effect I'm sure, but mostly...joking)

[@justinhealey2408]

Omg.. 23ft!!!

[@jessicasinmas]

im from mallorca, never heard in my 50 years about white sharks , and i swim far....i always been assured there are non in the med bloody hell ...

[@jacob2489]

is the first scene filmed in Malta? at ramla bay? because it seems to be like it

[@jacob2489]

yes i can verify that the documentary first parts are filmed in MALTA :)... i am maltese. :)

[@dvrn86]

Beautiful country! Valletta is magnificent!

[@filipborin555]

do you have anyrhing in common with Tony Grech the survivor of the attack from 1957 in which Jack Smedley have been killed by the GWS around the coast of Malta?

[@jaywalker3553]

Holy shit 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶

[@Evolutiontweaked]

Near what country

[@ikaikamaleko8370]

Id be scared shitless to be in the water with something that size, spooky😱😲

[@carlosvictormartin310]

Siempre me pregunté si había tiburones blancos dentro del Mediterráneo.

[@DrCrabfingers]

We didn't get to hear how the fisherman measured the shark i.e along the flank or along the top past the dorsal fin....but hey...it's a massive shark none the less.

[@christainmarks106]

23 feet OMG. That shark would be 30 feet now if they had let it live. So sad

[@NikosDiakatos]

The photos are from the shark with the larger jaw or with the smaller

[@arnoldstollar5375]

Great

[@TheChampionofthepeople]

7.15 metres!

[@1984var1]

Does anyone know where to get a copy of this program?

[@alistairrobinson3865]

did you ever find out? I cant find either

[@sharkboyben41]

Discovery is very stubborn about making available their older programs. They make a limited number of VHS/DVDs per program and based on the demand and purchase rate, they either continue to make them available or they don't. Many of the classic Shark Week programs from the 90s and early 2000s are likely gone forever 🥺 I've tried to get ahold of Discovery corporate to bring it up and no response as of yet

[@alloutofdonuts3998]

That sucks that he lost his foot, but the shark must’ve been pretty disappointed too. A foot has pretty much no meat on it, and they don’t taste all that good either. Not compared to leg meat anyway.

[@mesumnaqvi3411]

I hate it when fisherman have to kill a magnificent beast just so they can put part of it on their wall. I wish they'd have let the shark go.

[@kennygottlieb3628]

Was i pula croatia 86 thougt there where no Big sharks haha 13years and naive listen to adult paedagoghs but there was attacks on the adriatic coast around this time it went All the Way in to pula…

[@ligneusbc.955]

sad end to an amazing creature.

[@MichaelParthum]

Can you re-upload Jaws of the Mediterranean as one whole video? I have a copy myself, but the audio quality isn't as good.

[@roki977]

They where a lots of sharks in Adriatic when i was s kid, in the 80s. I saw few huge ones, dead hanging from the industrial cranes, even whales. They use to come in following passenger ships, at lest people where saying that...

[@mariozd971]

roki977 Di si ih to vidija?

[@kra776jisnik]

+Mario Finka pa na rivi .

[@mickclarke5741]

Why would you kill such a great creature

[@josephvandevander6848]

Atlantis must be under the Mediterranean. These sharks are like horses to them.

[@randyjohnson5426]

When shark week took the subject seriosly.

[@robertpallin68]

Bigfish👑

[@sobrevalorado]

Tatifa is not in the M3diterranean. The victim lost his foot after surgery at the hospital.and no one was sure if it was a white shark or another species. ....and we only are at minute 1.....

[@justinmjdell]

3:54 Terminator music

[@TheChampionofthepeople]

it wasn't caught in spain...it was caught in Malta!

[@vedyp5992]

Yeah cause Spanish would never use feet as measure

[@MatthewMcMahon_Actor]

Its such a shame that white shark sightings in the Mediterranean have plummeted in the last number of years

[@granto6738]

Think the biggest ever great white was landed off the med but they never got a official measure of it 🤔

[@maltatravel]

the guy at 4:00 sounds like borat :P lol anyway we haven't cought any more sharks in a long time BTW

[@kykrazy6050]

You want THE MOST accurate information on these jaws? Take them to Ralph Collier in California.

[@milesdust3465]

Great documentary, but many warning-flags are hold up at several times. Especially, when it comes to measuring the Malta-shark. First of all, they are using imperial instead of metrics, which makes no sense at all. And you can not measure it the way that they did. Ian Ferguson used to be (or maybe still are) the head of the european shark community. No doubt, there are or used to be a lot of enormous great whites in the Med and that has been established, that they are genetically different from other GW:s. Also the numbers speaks for itself. Most of the fatal accidents/attacks lead to partially or total predation/consumption. GW:s belong in the Med but it seems like they are fading away, despite the fact of the numerous observations each year.

[@donovanchilton5817]

remember this from when i was a little kid ha

[@mippim8765]

.........nothing like good news.

[@giorgosdiakatos9686]

I love mediterranen great white sharks

[@luciato8972]

GW shark killed in Malta in 1987 was male or female?

[@theshape7801]

Female

[@JH-ck1nr]

There are big Great Whites in the Black Sea too.

[@Kelly14UK]

How on EARTH is that possible if the Black Sea is classed as "The Friendly Sea" ?

[@filipborin555]

nope too cold for them but with the global wqrming if the temperatures increase should be possible to see them in the future

[@danriley5848]

It's a damn shame to kill those beautiful animals and they should be respected for what they are and left alone.

[@mattcosta294]

I lived here from 2010 'till 2012 Never seen s shark

[@chrisnieto5547]

.....But they've seen you!!!

[@OriginalNeoSupreme]

Many sharks are eating machines. Even if they may not have malicious intent with encounters, their powerful jaws and rows of serrated teeth can easily have devastating consequences.

[@filipborin555]

In the case of an attacking GWS the result will depend on its measurings but in each case if you wouldn't be kill from it probably you'll gonna bleed to death.

[@chrispauls7178]

I don't know about others but when I see Great Whites treated so awful Im ashamed of mans cruelty. Sharks are animals so when they attack they are doing what nature has appointed. But there is no innocence or nobility in parading the corpse of an innocent creature around like a trophy. The contest of man against nature is fixed. There is no greatness in hunting and sinful to destroy innocence.

[@LittleWeirdFilms]

Why dafaq am i watching this when im going next weak to Greece, facepalm

[@janecrossland4922]

Never new great whites are in Malta waters,scary

[@ellehell3914]

Watch : rise of the great white sharks docu very interesting.

[@clivesimpson-wells5952]

Things haven't Changed that much ,,,KILL IT IF IT MOVES..

[@Papirind26]

For some reason the 25ft mechanical shark in JAWS looks much bigger than this 23.5ft shark

[@filipborin555]

sure it is in Mediterranian they eat dolphins which have much more proteins than seals in other parts of the World.

[@darkangelw8472]

They think, there's a great white swimming from the US towards Britain currently, and since we do get them in the Mediterranean, there's no reason why they shouldn't come to the UK as well

[@jamiemorton113]

They are here

[@filipborin555]

too cold only between 10-24 degrees celsius of the water

[@Luke205]

@@filipborin555 UK water temperatures are between the temperatures you said.

[@seanhaarhoff3726]

Not the biggest ever caight, one was caught in the late eighties in the Kzn north coast S.Africa by a 22ft commercial ski boat, the shark was a meter past the front and a meter past the back of the boat. It was too big and heavy to tow it back to shore so they cut the head off which turned out to be a 2hr job. It was f#$king huge, never found out what ever happened to the jaws.

[@nat0106951]

fuck! 23.5ft!....just 1.5ft smaller than the shark in JAWS movie...

[@jguticon]

3:14 that man is NOT spanish. I can assure that a 50 years old spaniard cannot talk other language than spanish! And where is his spanish accent? That is not Spain.

[@filipborin555]

he'w maltese and in Malta english is one of the two official languages togheter wil.malthese

[@oliverhertzog1017]

Call Vic Hislop, he knows how to deal with this Beast.

[@ruthrizzo5369]

bye bye Malta and to me because I live there

[@Hanibaltherogue]

+Ruth Rizzo since a while none of the detected sharks can be found...

[@vanessashelton3732]

What a shame

[@hazemhamdi1956]

you will meet white shark in your black day.

[@jguticon]

THAT is NOT Spain.

[@johnnydutchman]

This shark (as with so many) was proven not to be 23ft long.

[@sharkboyben41]

Not proven, simply suspected of being incorrect. John Abela and his recorded length were deemed reliable by several world renowned shark experts

[@monicamonica2320]

@@sharkboyben41 no

[@tkkirkland3971]

@@monicamonica2320 Look at the other video on youtube when this shark is hanging from crane this shark was huge.

[@filipborin555]

Nad why not where is the problem to measure it?

[@patkelly3966]

White numbers in the Med are rapidly declining unfortunately. For some reason Meditterannean Great Whites seem to have been consistently huge, between 17 and 23 ft!!

[@TheUltraBeast1]

Pat Kelly yep unbelievably sad, although I doubt they're genetically any different than great whites elsewhere in the world. Perhaps the had better access to food but that's doubt able

[@patkelly3966]

Truth is probably just that the Med is a microcosm of White enviroments, so more per fin per capita have been identified , as it wefer

[@Bebercito]

Not only is it long, but fat: must have weighed in the 5,000-6,000 lb range.

[@deadpoolredsuit4892]

Too bad it was caught and killed :( ..i guess back in 1987 things were different. I have swam in the Mediterranean ocean on a number occasions while on holiday in Menorca between the years of 1981 and 1984 - i wonder how close the nearest White shark was?

[@Matt-cp9wh]

always close by you just didnt see em

[@georginacox7292]

They are in England more. Great Whites.Google.

[@LL-84]

I hate that they had to kill this shark

[@TheChampionofthepeople]

Yeah I think it would spook the shit out of me too! if i saw a 7m shark swimming next to my ass :S

[@borsmartynov8623]

You have to coming to Estonia in Finland gulf not sharks.

[@filipborin555]

too cold for them and for us too.

[@Kelly14UK]

Cutajar. Pronounced Cu- TAE- yar, Maltese and Gozitans will get me. Not cooty yar.

[@kwakkers68]

All around the world fish numbers are declining. Tragic for the world's wildlife, and tragic for humanity. When will we ever learn?

[@davidf2023]

leave sharks alone :( !

[@Sheila612Miller]

David F China is the only people that kill sharks now right? Everyone else has them on endangered list I think. I know the chop off find for shark find soup then throw it back to die. Sad, very sad. Humans fuck up everything for money.