SHARK FILMED Close to Packed BRITISH BEACH - Atleast 11FT long 🦈🇬🇧

[@AirbornePirates]

What else would you want me to cover here on the channel? 🇬🇧🦈

[@dreamchaser9569]

Shark fishing and diving and some spear fishing

[@NKL_FISHING]

More fishing 🎣😁 Anymore news on ocean search bud?

[@Kfinnerty6853]

Activity of larger marine mammals and fish (incl sharks) in UK rivers. We had a killer whale wash up near where I live in the River Mersey near Hale Lighthouse and Porpoise are becoming a more common sight in the Mersey. Is this reflected across all UK rivers? Maybe some info on the salinity of rivers and how far upstream sharks can go in rivers.....

[@DaveGriffin-nr3nx]

Cover osearch when they come to Ireland Spain and France

[@NKL_FISHING]

@@Kfinnerty6853 yes mate definitely becoming more frequent sighting I sea fish alot and I've seen way more seals porpoises this year more than any previous years Seen them from Llandudno way right up the river dee estuary into Chester it's insane kills fishing sometimes but it can only be a positive though as surely if there here the fish also will be 🤔😁

[@bobjames1521]

SHOCK HORROR! IT'S NO LONGER SAFE TO ENTER UK WATERS!!! Mind you, that's due to sewage and not sharks...

[@bushwhackeddos.2703]

Due to 800 unknown dinghy men arriving daily

[@Spangletiger]

Definitely not a good time to be a basking shark swimming along our coastline...

[@matthartshorn9483]

In Devon there's next to no sewage in the beach waters now. Amazes me the clarity of the water compared to when I was a kid. No more surface scum either.

[@tadhghayden7601]

The beast of the bonus culture and shareholders greed...

[@CAPODNB]

I live in bournemouth and there has always been basking sharks and tope under bournemouth pier

[@FredScuttle456]

I've seen a pod of dolphins off Boscombe.

[@leefauvelfauvel5271]

​@FredScuttle456 I've seen a gaggle of wolly woofters there too, or was that Brighton anyways I digress your safe as long as you keep a safe distance and don't turn your back on them...

[@issimondias]

I’m pretty sure that basking sharks don’t live under piers.

[@FredScuttle456]

@@leefauvelfauvel5271 Yes, in Brighton the sharks are all rainbow-coloured.

[@Dannny1067]

I like how you give lots of information and make people make their own minds up

[@AirbornePirates]

Thanks Danny

[@rickjones641]

We get threshers around Jersey, and there are several shallow, sloping beaches in bays that are more-or-less inaccessible from the shore because they're under steep, crumbly cliffs. Our water is super-clear for most of the year, and we've seen Threshers from above (clearly, because of the tail, and we're up but still way closer than this video) cruising in shallows like this, moving identically as far as I can tell. We have so many tuna around here at the moment that you can spot them from shore pretty much daily. There's a ban on fishing them and a whole situation involving French boats coming in in stealth-mode to get to them, and mackerel aren't as abundant (I wonder if it's because of the amount of tuna) for fishermen, which is perhaps why we're seeing more big fish coming in to the shallows where smaller baitfish are seeking to escape.

[@drewbewho]

I wasn't actually aware there were tuna in british waters

[@rickjones641]

@@drewbewho I was commercial scallop diving here in Jersey, seasonally, on and off over about the last 25 years, and it felt like the tuna here (we're that bit closer to the Bay of Biscay, and thus the entranced to the Med) started showing up around 2012 -- with the huge shoals (and I mean massive both in number and size of fish) arriving in 2015. Local skippers theorise that it's because of pressure from the Libyan fishing fleet in the Med, that boomed and became more lawless after Gaddafi was deposed in October 2011 and the country became more chaotic. They're here to stay in the Channel Islands it seems, and generally we share a lot of marine ecology with the south and south west coasts of England. I am 100% sure that our black bream and mackerel seasons have been decimated since their arrival, and we get a lot more cliff side sightings of things like porbeagles, tope, porpoises, dolphins, even pilot whales -- all the bigger predators --- closer to land than when I was growing up, maybe because the tuna patrol the more offshore parts of our waters in greater number nowadays.

[@drewbewho]

@@rickjones641 ah, so theres all sorts of bigger predators being drawn up around the coast now? I wasnt aware.i've spent the majority of summers, maybe since 2008, actually in erquy not far along from there but i had no idea. We just fish off the harbour and rarely get a sniff of a mackerel. Normally just chinchard. Theres the processing port there and i remember the news about the fishinv wars they'd have with the brits over rights and quotas and so on. We used to swim from one beach to the next round under the cliffs and ofcourse your imagination would be at it wondering whats in those deeper waters below 😆

[@lilbullet158]

*_"You're gonna need a Bigger Jetski..."_*

[@izzytyler8872]

Even while my brain knows a basking shark is harmless, my lizard brain will still have me in flight or flight mode 😂

[@kennybaker3141]

When i was a child back ion the seventies,whilst out in an inflate able dinghy with my dad,a basking shark swam under us.Same as you harmless,but it still sh*t me up.

[@lynnehenderson4517]

I would say almost certainly a Thresher shark. Love all your videos....thank you. 👍👌

[@AirbornePirates]

Thanks for watching!

[@dreamchaser9569]

The tale looks like a thresher shark with the long tale fin

[@gothicgorey]

It’s a large tope they are common in U.K. waters .

[@redbeard8913]

​@gothicgorey you can see it is a thresher shark by the elongated tail!

[@gothicgorey]

@@redbeard8913 google tope they can get to 6ft in size if not bigger . I have caught them fishing.

[@davidquinn7702]

I thought it was a thresher shark aswell

[@RoughNeck66]

Definitely a Thresher

[@nishiki7047]

Shock horror ! A big fish in the water , that’s not an attack ( no pun intended) at this brilliant channel

[@richierich8334]

I was Scuba Diving under Bournemouth Pier 4 weeks ago on my own. I regularly see Basking Shark out in the Channel, but never so close to the shore. Even if it was a Basking, I would have still crapped myself if it came out of nowhere :P

[@jameskrell4392]

It looks like a young basking shark. I have stood on the cliffs in Cornwall and watched over twelve at a time swiming in the shallow water. June is the time for them.

[@issimondias]

That massively long tail indicates a thresher shark not a basking shark.

[@ValerieAnnHorn-Ross-mx4cv]

🇬🇧 on the North East coast of Britain, just north of Newcastle, a few years back, a Greenland Shark was found on Whitley Bay Beach. Reputed to have been over 250 - 300 yes old. However, our sea, the North Sea is not only violent & turbulent but FREEZING, hence our Greenland Shark I will say my friend works on the North Sea Fishing Boats/Trawlers, and has seen long shark shaped creatures just below his boats Especially when the weather has been warm & they've landed a haul, scavengers always hang round the Trawlers. My friend isn't sure if they are sharks or porpoise, even large seals, they don't have time to stand & stare when the haul is on board. Many of our local fishermen swear they have seen sharks, especially on the South East coast & the English Channel have had alot of sightings. Great Vid! Love Sharks! 🦈 peace 🙋

[@nacholocotuco65]

Fascinating, thanks for that, I think we shall start seeing more and more species of shark turning up in our waters as the climate changes.🙂

[@johnatkinson7126]

Theres been sharks around the british coast for generations there are lots of charter boats you can hire to go shark fishing fro m​@@nacholocotuco65there are over 20 species of sharks in british waters including basking,blue,mako,porbeagle, thresher it's nothing new

[@jamiesmith5846]

Thresher is the most likely… and what a treat to see it in our waters… not saying that I’d want it to suddenly pop up in front of me, but I don’t think there is any aggression in them.

[@shooreshgolzari3885]

Been a while, mate. Glad to see your channel growing 👏 Testament to the effort you put in. Keep it up!

[@ericb8888]

Very possibly a “ common thresher “ due to size and tail . Great video, thanks

[@Durace11Bunny]

I was in the water at Sandbanks with the paddleboard upto the bouys on Saturday so far enough to be alone and went for a good swim. My board has now been sold hahaha

[@scratchmonkey9053]

As always great video, I would also have to say Thresher shark 🤙

[@davidjbiscoe957]

My first thought was thresher

[@markjones6564]

Same here👍

[@stevenvitali7404]

Yes, temps have dropped a lot, not so humid

[@DeanMosley-gr4zf]

It was I was 50 feet from it and it was chasing mullet.only about 8 feet long everyone was shitting it telling me to leave the water,I wouldn't want it to bite but also it doesnt scare me.i wanted to grab its tail and push it deeper out

[@philipmead5113]

That was interesting. I thought Thresher after seeing it a few times. The Blue Shark is stunning!!

[@AirbornePirates]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@lukascalvert6484]

Thresher shark…..love how the media go nuts…. Keep up the good work as always and hello to your pooch !

[@dickie8184]

I grew up in Poole, just down the road. I fished as a kid all around the area, harbour, Swanage, shell bay "studland" I have seen many shark species and it's just a matter of time before a Great White is filmed. Unfortunately I now live in Manchester, but hopefully one day I'll go back and resume my love of fishing.

[@toshe.6690]

you swapped Poole for Manchester? as a manc myself i have to ask, which lunatic hospital are you in?

[@JulianCooke-yn5lh]

When I was a kid in the 70's, we often used to swim near basking sharks off the sand bank away from the shore. My Mum said that basking sharks were often seen off the beaches of Poole when she was young, following mackerel shoals.

[@cymro6537]

Basking Sharks don't eat mackerel

[@Upthereds6]

Ur Weimaraner dog is gorgeous we’ve had two females over the years, unfortunately had to put our second one down in 2022 due to spondylosis in her back legs & water on her lungs, also X-rays showed a dark mass on her chest resembling 50% chance of Cancer! 💔😢 BUT besides the sad bits as ALL dogs pass away at some point it’s something we just have to deal with & grasp unfortunately. BUT they are the most beautiful, friendly, & loving dog companion u could ever get! I always recommend them, We bred our first one “Millie” & the puppies when their first born for the first couple of weeks the pups are grey with little white stripes all over there body resembling a Tiger! - well sort of!! LOL😆 BUT they grow really BIG quick, as u obviously must know….LOL. Great video too pal👍.

[@AirbornePirates]

I remember when he was born he resembled a tiger too! He’s 10 now and just starting to go in the back legs, hoping for a few more years with him 🙏

[@Upthereds6]

@@AirbornePirates he should be ok for now, our first one had to go on steroids for her legs & she lived till she was 12, & our second one lived till she was 14, so hopefully fingers crossed🤞u should get them couple of years with him, cherish him while he’s still here mate, when we lost both of ours it left a gaping hole in our family TWICE! U don’t realise how big a part of the family they become & how much u fall in love with them, & by god do u notice once they have passed on, all part of life I know BUT still heart breaking 💔 BUT I wouldn’t av changed having them for the world there an amazing breed such a loving dog they truly are!👌

[@alexanderjoughin5898]

Basking Shark. Right time of year too.

[@xd_twistxr5691]

if it was a basking shark it would be massive. This is a thresher shark

[@georgedawson235]

What you on about 😂😂

[@lewismulholland2704]

Yep definitely a thresher , basking sharks are know to give birth to 11ft babies

[@alexanderjoughin5898]

​@georgedawson235 can you read?

[@alexanderjoughin5898]

​@@xd_twistxr5691Still think it's a basking shark.

[@antitheist9976]

This is what is required on a lot of beaches, drones are pretty much the only early warning system.

[@adrianfielding4678]

It would be needed if the UK had dangerous sharks but thankfully we don't have sharks that we need to fear.

[@antitheist9976]

@@adrianfielding4678 Of course mate, I am UK myself, I mentioned it for countries that do, mainly. Who knows though, the warmer areas of the UK that might, in future, get a whiff of something with a bit more of a bite. 🙂

[@matthewtanner9823]

I think one of these days we'll see a great white off our coastline but these days people will keep spotting basking sharks and saying "it could be a great white". Sometimes you see what you want to see.

[@TheMilford99]

I`m no expert but have followed filming of them for decades, but the short clip looks like a thresher to me.

[@bobbiescrisps9208]

Shame they aren’t in the English Channel, lots of them

[@PsychicPsal1742]

😂👍

[@joedaman8436]

Basking sharks are common on our coasts, I have seen loads over the years, media blowing it out of proportion

[@margarethughes3763]

Basking sharks. Lots around the Isle of Man feed on plancton. Harmless.

[@xTomski]

Baskins are a lot bigger than that!

[@henryschwaiger6568]

​@@xTomski not the young ones.

[@xTomski]

@@henryschwaiger6568 very true. Plus it’s hard to tell how big it actually is from the video so I might be completely wrong with that.

[@henryschwaiger6568]

@@xTomski from the tail I'm going with a thresher shark, it was probably chasing mackerel.

[@karloakley8022]

From looking at the tail area it looks like a thresher shark

[@markwilders2265]

Always great insight and thoughts. Legend.

[@TheMastaDazza]

I thought Basking but when you pointed out the length of it's tail I changed my mind to Thresher. Really well spotted pal! You can only see it for a few frames, but that tail really does look like a Thresher tail

[@Twotyretommy]

I might have spoken to soon. Could be a thresher.

[@bennett685]

Its a thresher shark long top tail fin is very long not a basking shark they are filter feeders blue sharks fish eater and topes hope this helps

[@markwhite5465]

Its a Tope..loads in the solent it moves like one..not a blue not a porbeagle not a thresher...catch them from the beach here on the Isle of Wight.

[@pikeing101]

My first thought was a thresher shark with length of that tail

[@kenny832]

Saw a 10 foot ST Mako swim up the side of Newlyn pier (Cornwall) during lockdown - very clear & easy to identify

[@JinxSky-zs2xi]

Just found your channel, looking forward to watching future videos nice work. 😁

[@AirbornePirates]

Welcome aboard!

[@Twotyretommy]

Doesn’t look like a thresher, looks more like a basking shark

[@The-Audi-driver]

Is that a basking shark? We do get them around the uk so I believe

[@williammayer7199]

What beautiful fish

[@bossmane5006]

Videos are quality keep it up mate!

[@spookyncutey4577]

My first thought was thresher the body shape and tail seems very skinny and the exact shape of a thresher they may not be as common here but they have been spotted and do exist in our waters good spot though to whoever filmed it ! I've seen dolphins seals and seen lions in Scotland in Aberdeen and it was gorgeous but never seen any in the uk ! Off to Kent next month for a few days to go see if we can spot any Kent seems to have the most sightings this year so far of both dolphins and sharks!

[@stevesellers-wilkinson7376]

I disagree... I'd go for a basking shark. But the video is poor quality and rather short, so essentially, we're all just guessing. Another great video, though - thank you, Bud! 🙂 Best wishes from York!

[@clarebaldingofficial5081]

I always listen to my hair at times like these, its never wrong and its telling me Thresher shark

[@gothicgorey]

Absolutely no wear near 11ft lol it’s about 6ft . Easy to get rough measure with wave formation and people in the water and it’s a tope. Amazed how people can’t see it

[@izzytyler8872]

The dolphins are so sad, such unnecessary loss of life 😢

[@MsJon52]

100% a thresher, no other shark has the same tail as clearly seen in the vid,

[@thedorsetbeachbum]

Thresher was the first thing came to mind before you mentioned it.

[@joecampbell6486]

about 38 years ago I watched around 10 large sharks in Scarborough

[@CHIMPmanHE]

With drones go pros and changing ocean temperatures we will soon see great whites in 🇬🇧 waters. Fun fact i was working in Cornwall years ago in a retired fisherman's house i asked him if he'd ever seen a great white he said he hadn't personally but knew people who had.

[@murder13love]

Yeah, a guy at work used to regularly go shark fishing for blues here in Devon and heard many stories from fishermen that have sworn they have seen whites in our waters

[@ADAM_truthfinderz]

​@@murder13lovemy dad went shark fishing years ago and saw a great white of the coast of Cornwall in the late 80s that was 👍

[@benstern310]

tope shark. we've always had them

[@nickwatkins5321]

It appears to have a very long tail, so I agree that it's a thresher. Very unusual for them to venture so close to shore though

[@genetixriskmanagement2134]

Whatever it is I think its just lookign for your Thrudark discount code 🙂. Loving the content and fleece (and hat) - keep it up.

[@AirbornePirates]

Can’t beat the thrudark gear 🐸 🇬🇧

[@artedwards7451]

The tail and head remind me very much of a sand tiger shark, the aquarium's favorite toothy friend. They range as far North as the Gulf of Maine in the US, so why not Bournemouth?

[@surreygoldprospector576]

I saw two sharks in Poole Harbour under the jetty at Brownsea Island. I thought they were Blue Sharks but you said they don't come inshore, so now I don't know?! 3-4 foot long no big tail.

[@neilwhite4889]

Probably Smoothound

[@surreygoldprospector576]

@@neilwhite4889 Yes, could be. Thanks!

[@leemaharg3788]

Looking at the length of the tail to body ratio I think it's a thresher shark ! 😊

[@alanclark785]

We,ve always had sharks off our coast, just that with drones, etc, it's now more scary to see them just off the beach

[@sheilatruax6172]

Looks like a thresher to me, too. The caudal looks elongated.

[@jonnyjungle8096]

“Call it summit else” “like what?” Britganistan, Englamabad, Londbania. Just to think of a few🤣🤣

[@nez9751]

I’m no expert but to me seemed like a small basking shark, due to the colour etc. and the close vid, seems like a basking shark definitely. They are gentle giants nothing to worry about in my opinion.

[@typhoonda2]

My first thought was Thresher but other than that it's a bit to quick to really tell species. Great to see though and thank you for covering.

[@drk321]

One more thing I want to add is I have been in the water with a thresher shark and they have a very tapered, bullet like head. Not the wide head in the video. The thresher I saw was 10ft long so a 5 ft shark and 5 ft tail. This video did not show a 50/50 ratio between body and tail. One more thing to add a basking shark is more likely to be inshore than a thresher.

[@mattlenton2012]

As always..brilliant stuff mate.

[@AirbornePirates]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@darrenhale6320]

We get big threshers just off the IOW

[@paulcollis7651]

Was in Bournemouth as a kid in summer 1976 and there were threshers seen off of there and Boscombe. The tail shows its a thresher. Too big for topeVery close in which is concerning as no shoals of small fish there. Watched fishing program with Ali hamidi and Bobby zamora last year and they caught a couple of threshers off of Ilfracombe to over 300lb within sight of the shore😮

[@jasonpearce4995]

Unless it's a 30ft great white I'm not that interested😂

[@theenglishtrucker1849]

We get basking sharks here. They are pretty damn big. But they eat plankton. Not people. Not the same as Jaws.

[@danforbes4513]

long tail = thresher there lucky to see one

[@tomc6003]

In one the clips it's tail is pretty visible and it looks very long and swishy, ie a thresher shark. Think the tail shape wrong for a tope.

[@rdrhouse]

where was he yesterday when that fast food boat sailed in from France

[@JamesDickson-vs5of]

We're gonna need a bigger boat

[@kennybaker3141]

Thresher or a small basking (due to the tail length).But i think it doesn't move right for it to be a basking.

[@dn744]

Tope, looks like to me. Caught a few, plus they will go in shallow water to follow fish

[@GibraltarRocks]

Interested to find out what happened to those dolphins, from the photo it does kinda look like a bite of some kind.

[@soccerstar41]

I would say the most likely thing is the dolphin had died and then been chewed on.

[@Timesend]

What a beautiful shark

[@TwitchingBill]

"thresher shark once proceeded to eat my boat. He ate my oar, hooks. and my seat cushions. He turned an inboard into an outboard"

[@jjasper7512]

But what bathers want to know is did it want to eat you....

[@lXlQueenofScots]

We just had a big basking shark wash up on an Ayrshire beach, tangled up in rope 💔

[@vicentalcoverperis6526]

The number of dangerous sharks near shore in UK waterw has been increasing dramaticaly in the last few years.

[@oraz.]

Come across the pond to cape cod many sharks

[@custombuildliving]

Always get Baskin sharks here

[@simonknox5580]

I’m going with a Thresher just because the tail length. Love the channel 👍

[@AirbornePirates]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@tommojj]

Looks very much like a thresher to me.

[@manchestermaverick3478]

Looks like a thresher shark to me or a tope.

[@congfusion]

Looks like a Nurse Shark to me due to the tail and shape of back fins. I’ve seen them in French Polynesia. It’s just a guess

[@Aaron_Hanson]

Not going to speculate on the species of shark in that footage but I’m going to say that the picture of the dolphin is 100% not from a JetSki strike. Perhaps the initial COD could have been a JetSki but those bites are shark predation or scavenging.

[@danieltaylor6272]

Just seen an article about some fishermen videoing a great white off the coast of Galway. I've seen the video but a little sceptical about it..

[@fredmesley3051]

Living in Carlisle. Bournemouth looks lovely

[@FredScuttle456]

Used to be, but it's becoming ethnically enriched these days.

[@iicundyzz]

My initial thoughts where young basking shark or thresher shark, what about Silky shark?

[@tadhghayden7601]

Another interesting sighting...large tope I reckon. Blue sharks in Pacific have been known to attack humans as a food source. Do your own research on this matter to confirm or not. It all depends on the water temps. Above a certain level their behaviour alters.. Expecting interesting sightings any day now...

[@drk321]

First off, mad respect for your channel as I have stated before. Eliminating thresher shark. You can se the pelvic fins way in the back and if it was a thresher the caudal fin (tail) would equal the length of the body which it clearly does not. Tope? 11 ft? not likely. Why this is a basking shark: its size. Only one shark known in UK waters that reach 11ft, a basking shark. Also the prominent pelvic fins of a basking shark but most indicative is the way the area which would be around the gills flares out exactly like the filter feeding basking shark. Small one but they begin life even smaller. The color is right too. The location says it should be no surprised to encounter a basking shark. But the flared gills give it away. My $0.02

[@issimondias]

You can see the very long tail in the video.

[@drk321]

@@issimondias A thresher shark has a tail that is approximately the same length as the rest of its body so give or take 50% tail, 50% body length. In the video this shark has a long tail (not "very" long) but apparently less than 20% the length of the body. Plus thresher sharks do not have wide heard like the shark in the video. You can pause the video and clearly see the tail is just a fraction the length of the sharks body, so yeah, not a thresher.

[@issimondias]

@@drk321 no other shark has a tail like that. 100% thresher.

[@drk321]

@@issimondias I am sorry you are offended but I have studied sharks since 1975, I am an underwater photographer that specializes in shark photography. I have been in the water with a thresher shark. You haven't. This is no more a thresher shark than it is a loaf of bread. Keep posting all you want but sometimes when someone is outside of their subject of expertise, it is prudent to actually do a little looking around to she what an actual thresher looks like. They are 50% tail and this shark clearly isn't unless you completely failed at math. Aloha!

[@issimondias]

@@drk321 as a shark expert, please could you indicate another species of shark that visits UK waters that has a long thrashy tail?

[@Epicseeb]

Could be a smalltooth sand tiger shark one did wash up near the isle of white last year its body shape could match one but im not shure

[@jayinwood647]

Every summer the media blows all of these sightings out of proportion. The Aussies must be pissing themselves 😂

[@stevenforeman1054]

My opinion is that it is a Thresher shark swimming around, im almost sure.

[@tobesvalois8873]

It's a baby megaladon, or my name isn't Benedict Cumberbatch.

[@Jako-fh8zg]

Great video, great to see such wildlife in the sea - much better than the predator called “turds” floating around 👍👍👍

[@davidgilmartin7578]

Looking at the tail could be a thresher 🤔

[@craigmacdonald4987]

I was thinking Thresher or Sand tiger before you said anything

[@alistairrobinson3865]

Cheers mate appreciate your insights 🙏

[@AirbornePirates]

Much appreciated