Why Great White Sharks Could Soon Appear in UK

[@milkbunnies]

Dear Britain….your summers at the beach will never be the same again! - love Australia

[@UknownPC]

😂

[@carolinemarchand4743]

🤣

[@jamesalbert4954]

Oh man, love australiaan humour

[@roncatton7101]

They're not the same now, neve mind if white sharks settle here.

[@xlbullybigkong4485]

The boarders will be safer

[@aquilarossa5191]

There might not be a large UK seal population, but there are plenty of beer bellied Scousers in the water at Blackpool during summer. That'll do for an easy, high fat content meal. 🤣

[@buzz5969]

hehehe

[@tabeccaletford408]

😂😂

[@BenEdits123]

There is a large seal population

[@justsayin644]

they are too thick though so hard to eat

[@samyunknown974]

😂😂😂 yum yum

[@garethmaybury5218]

This video is so refreshing. Extremely affable host, for starters. No sensationalist rubbish. Facts. Actual logic and science. You've earned a subscription. Keep up the good work.

[@deletebilderberg]

'Actual logic and science' Isn't it weird how people now use the term 'science' entirely out of context? Probably as a consequence of the last 4 years where it was used to coerce and lie to the public #ScienceIsNeverSettled

[@aguyishappy3988]

A rarity nowadays unfortunately. Almost everything is soundbites and sensationalist

[@nufcsam354]

The Uk has the largest amount of seals in europe. If our waters continue to have a growing seal population it is fair game.

[@jaydub2546]

We have a lot of dolphins too

[@Jack-uy7ie]

Natures balance. Though its sad to see seals get knocked down in the food chain it will benefit them ultimately.

[@sonitclef8675]

they about to be hit by large scale natural selection . they may even evolve to have superior intelligence to huamsn and enslave the human race

[@dritantahiraj3830]

The orcas will deal with the sharks

[@Ray.Norrish]

yea, seals seem to have been getting a higher pop for a while.

[@steadyeddie639]

We need them in the channel ..

[@Ryan-lf1ko]

👀😂

[@PaulCoombes-c2q]

Big man eaters and lots of them ❤

[@clivewinter8321]

I totally agree with you especially around cross channel dinghy 😂😂

[@ChrisAndCats]

Great plan 👌

[@354sd]

Naughty😂

[@samuelhonywill4499]

Cracking little pub in Hope Cove, and the view from the clifftop is among the finest. Have seen basking sharks and dolphins from the cliffs there many a time, to see a great white would be a massive thrill.

[@MarineEmpires]

There certainly is, went straight there after filming this 😅

[@Aqeelmahmood-w9l]

The great white might meet you there.

[@iandavies1893]

The best video on Great Whites in our waters

[@lknanml]

Sharks in your area are a good thing. It means your waters are healthy with all levels of the food chain remaining in balance.

[@jackslater5886]

Which is great until you become part of that food chain!

[@lknanml]

@@jackslater5886 On average 5 people are killed by sharks every year... Worldwide..... 365 people die in their bathrooms per year. Your toilet is more dangerous than a shark.

[@goldeneagle99]

​@@jackslater5886then dumby, stay in swimming pools..it is their domane..

[@dijital4801]

Although they're not meant to be here which could be a problem for the rest of the ecosystem

[@lknanml]

@@dijital4801 Actually they have been around the UK since the 60s. They are semi warm blooded so they can almost swim everywhere around the world. You have a lot of grey and harbor seals. The ecosystem is fine. They only pick off the sick, old and injured for the most part and I've never seen a report that said GWS impacted nature in a bad way. There are simply not enough of them in the area at a given time. They truly are a check and balance in nature.

[@solerso68]

The number of seasonal resident seals in New England is, from Cape Cod to Nova Scotia put at "about " 175,000, .Obviously this is a large enough Seal population to support a growing recovering White shark population, of up to a few hundred individuals

[@rawdog314]

Great white sharks aren't recovering though they are in decline which is why there's probably no white sharks in rhe uk

[@goldeneagle99]

Will orca follow them?

[@solerso68]

@@goldeneagle99 Orca are already there.Orca are even more migratory than White sharks and they inhabit all the NA waters from Greenland/iceland to Norway -Scotland

[@Mac-dx4rd]

@@rawdog314the numbers are growing for gw’s although it’s quite obvious they are still declining in the med but worldwide they are finally growing again

[@rawdog314]

@@Mac-dx4rd yes but the north east Atlantic population is even more endangered and rarer than the Mediterranean population, that's what I meant.

[@alexgreen5064]

There's always the Porbeagle shark as a confusion. Although a lot smaller than whites, they are very close cousins and have been in British waters, especially the West county for decades.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Not when a 15 footer is reported. 😉

[@wallace500001]

Porbeagles are half the size mate.

[@rawdog314]

​@@lyndoncmp5751I've seen people state on here that basking sharks are great whites😂 every fin that breaks the surface in Britain is "jaws" country full of empty heads

[@jamesharrison2763]

Porbeagles are still big enough to fool most people, they aren't small. Especially at a quick glance, which is all you usually get, would be very easy to make that mistake.

[@goldeneagle99]

​@@lyndoncmp575125 footer

[@michaelsummerell8618]

I confess I had absolutely no idea that Orca's frequent British waters... And I love there!

[@jenifferschmitz8618]

orcas are asholes Port and Starboard are munching there way through south africas great white population

[@markanderson6362]

They are mainly in Scotland. Still pretty awesome.

[@justluke8836]

They come really far south, there was a confirmed sighting from a ferry that was going between the hook of Holland and Harwich

[@JagdgeschwaderX]

We get them in the waters around Anglesey at times

[@Denzao-D]

The great white can survive everywhere. Quite awesome. I am quite happy that here where i live in sweden we have fresh water.

[@goldeneagle99]

Unfortunately humans can too....

[@bigpat_4295]

I think the bullshark can survive in fresh water

[@jenifferschmitz8618]

bull sharks can live in fresh Sweden is far to cold Australia has golf course with water trap are infested with bull sharks very cool the cranbrooke golf course they even have the shark challenge

[@waynehiggs7335]

Subspecies of orcas have different specialist hunting methods depending on their staple prey. Some specialise in hunting seals, some are predominantly fish eaters and specialised in herding shoals of fish. Orca attacks on GW have only been observed around NZ and Eastern Australia and is contributed to a small number of pods due to the specific technique required to immobilise sharks

[@rebeccaday2107]

Port and starboard the two orca in South Africa chased off alot of sharks they moved up the coast

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Yes. 99.9% of orcas don't attack great white sharks. Other great whites are a bigger threat to great whites.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

@@user-dx6bv2pe1s They would have already targeted basking sharks if so. No evidence they have.

[@nickm8874]

Sure. But do the Great Whites stick around and ask? Or do they just get the hell out of there

[@waynehiggs7335]

@@nickm8874 According to the report that I saw from NZ, as soon as GWs got a whiff of GW blood, they got the hell out of dodge

[@stevebriggs2645]

Portnahaven,Islay, we witnessed a massive shark attacking/devouring a seal a few years ago.

[@michaelmclarney1994]

You're in the Gulf stream there, on the West Coast. It would be a great white hot spot!

[@elmo319]

As a diver, I would also consider the depths and topography of the Uk in comparison to other known GW locations. Also, the UK has a lot of Baskin sharks that are sometimes confused with GW’s.

[@Jimmy_Cooper]

There are every few seals in the Med. maybe as little as 800 Monk seals in the whole sea , yet Great Whites are confirmed as being in the Med albeit in amalll numbers . Apparently this year (2024) an American great white shark research unit is coming to Europe , specifically the Med to try and catch and tag White sharks . They do plan to spend some time in the Uk as well

[@jaybe2908]

They hunt large tuna also I believe, and there have been big bluefin tuna on the UK south coast in recent years.

[@wallace500001]

Yes, and no doubt GW too.

[@DrMcMoist]

Reminds me of a story I read about as a kid. A Great White washed up on the shore of the Spanish resort of Tossa De Mar. In a move that could have been right out of the movie 'Jaws', the local authority loaded the corpse of the fish onto a flat bed truck and whisked it off to a landfill site. Apparently they felt like it would negatively affect tourism in the area. Before they could bury the "evidence" though, conservationists rumbled them and brought the entire ordeal to light.

[@rawdog314]

Used to be a lot more in the med,their decline is nothing to do with the decline of monk seals but their prey in general, plus the lack of protection they have in the area,most experts think the're as good as extinct. Which is why it's very unlikely they are in the uk aside from the odd vagrant visitor.

[@hazmat5749]

The largest great white ever caught was caught off Malta in the Mediterranean

[@madzangels]

Saw the video, currently wading in the south west coast having a ganders - wish me luck!

[@KingTricky28]

I believe its only certain pods of orcas that hunt great whites but I could be wrong bit I believe each pod specialises in different foods and hunting techniques

[@MusicAdmirer]

All orcas hunt sharks. They only want the liver for its nutrients.

[@goldeneagle99]

They are masters of observing,learning,then teaching their young to hunt anything they choose...inc g.w shark.

[@Babesinthewood97]

I read that a nursery for sharks was discovered outside wales and Ireland

[@24934637]

Excellent video, thank you! The global decline in sharks generally and Great Whites specifically is tragic! Hopefully as more people become educated to the facts about sharks and un-doing the massive damage that 'Jaws' did to their reputation their loss may be halted! Beautiful creatures!

[@juhorasimus]

Great White: "This is a very underrated channel, will swim and like."

[@icanseeyouallfromuphere]

😂 said it a few years back when the hot weather started more common, they're already to known to occasionally pass by and so it only makes sense with seals and sea lions here they'd migrate here at some point anyway

[@danep99]

This is a really interesting video. Great work

[@Alejojojo6]

Im from Spain, and here were almost NEVER have great whites except for the Canary Islands (the warmest place in Spain and one of the few areas with seals), in fact is famous for it; so your map saying that the spanish coast is a breeding ground is very weird for me. They are very rare and if spotted is either in the south or the canary isles. I live in northern spain, Basque country were our weather, climate, landscape and waters are very similar to those of La Rochelle and Plymouth so this is VERY scary if true, since the White Sharks could live by my coast (I live like 500 meters from it) and swim in them often. We have orcas also over here, they were spotted 12 km off my coast, so that gives me some relief. PD: This year in the Northern Spanish coast we also had a plague of Portuguese Jellyfish, so much so many days in summer bath was prohibited.

[@Unclebuzzcocksne]

There was a Great White shark filmed near Majorca a couple of years ago, and another in La Coruna

[@gooberdoober2286]

Unfortunately Spain has had quite a few attacks by sharks including some by whites. The white tends to be a temperate water shark not a tropical or warmer water species In Australia we have had attacks in cooler water south of the country which may be similiar to your climate in northern Spain.

[@samuelhonywill4499]

Great whites are known to swim in the Bay of Biscay so for them to be in northern Spain isn't a massive stretch. Also the Med used to be famous for massive great whites - Italy, Malta and the Balkans in particular have a history of shark attacks - although with the massive overfishing of the tuna population I suspect they're very few in number now.

[@danielbuxton4493]

@@samuelhonywill4499 The Bay of Biscay is what lies off Northern Spain.

[@andreachiocchi171]

El mar de las islas canarias es mas frio que el mediterraneo, por lo tanto es mas probable que haya tiburones blanco en la peninsula iberica

[@gerrya4818]

someone on another channel said a lot of "powerful people" were standing in the way of actual research being done to confirm they are in british waters because it could affect tourism.

[@gb1967.]

Think that person has watched jaws a few many times. Sharks are known to frequent plenty other tourist hot spots and it doesn’t seem to have a major impact in those places. As much as anything their numbers are just too small, mainly because we keep killing them, so we are the threat not them

[@skycloud4802]

Sharks actually increase tourism in some cases. In Cornwell I think there is even a Blue Shark snorkelling experience for enthusiasts. If a Great White establishes in the UK regularly, you can bet on it that a company will seize the opportunity to monotise it by selling cage diving tours.

[@Humanityiscomedy]

Bro who goes to Brittan for the ocean😅

[@james505ism]

‘Powerful People’ 😂 or maybe the reason it doesn’t impact tourism is the fact that there’s never been a confirmed sighting or attack in the history of the UK. Take the tin foil hat off pal 👍

[@ryankeen6756]

@@skycloud4802but a lot of the seaside resorts would lose money cause family’s just Wouldn’t go

[@andyanderson5637]

They had great white sharks in Alaska,if in Alaska they could pretty much go almost anywhere.

[@edward9643]

Sure but I'd have thought that maybe it had something to do with the food supply- what with salmon and everything

[@925263]

Not what they eat. Great whites primarily eat seals and other big things. Their hunting technique is not very good for taking small prey.@@edward9643

[@andyanderson5637]

@@edward9643 yea no doubt

[@edward9643]

@@AGLTONY brrr, I feel terrible for them

[@Jowanji]

The UK has small whale species and dolphin Apart from the Gray seal we have Harbour seals

[@robh316]

Yes our waters are perfect for great white sharks the temperature is spot on and there are a tone of seals for them to feed on and they are more likely than not already here and have been for some time

[@reality-cheque]

I was fishing about 25 miles off the coast in Lyme Bay (U.K.) in the summer of 1976. The sea was very calm and a shark swam up to the (25') boat - we estimated it at half the length of the boat and identified it as a rather 'fat' bonito. Looking back, it could quite easily have been a great white...

[@crypt0gyp5y3]

Cool, thanks for this. I'll never be going in the sea ever again. Not even in the UK which I thought was safe :/

[@MichaelMcFe]

Great Whites are complex and sensitve, with a lot more to learn about them. I think having them on the coast is a good thing

[@TruthDragon.]

It is. It means your seal populations have recovered to numbers large enough to support White Sharks. Just look at what happened during the past few decades in and around New York in the United States. It appears the same think is now happening in the UK.

[@SupportMensMentalHealth]

I think it's wonderful that we may have sharks in our waters. They're amazing creatures

[@user-ip1ow7hf8c]

Nah. We have nothing in the UK that is considered dangerous.. lets leave it that way

[@JackMcNeillCars]

Take a shot every time he says “waters”

[@adriennedunne1748]

20 years ago, when I was diving off the west coast of Ireland where I'm from, there had been 5 confirmed sightings of great white sharks. I didn't see them myself. I was happy not to.

[@amaraamara2712]

What and where is the evidence

[@justsayin644]

there is none@@amaraamara2712

[@TheNonsenseAdventures]

The west coast community is now only 2 orcas. There are multiple pods around shetland / Orkney, who do venture down to the mainland. Along with lots of offshore pods. The clip you used of thr orca close to shore, looks like one of the Shetland orcas that ive photographed before (the little notch on the dorsal fin gives it away)

[@solerso68]

The video of the sighting you opened with was obviously, without a doubt a GW shark...seal and fish populations, especially Tuna , are recovering in British waters.This WILL bring the sharks gradually.

[@ViolentRainbow]

Fish populations are recovering? Alert the Taiwanese fishermen!

[@solerso68]

They're probably on the way already

[@Gambit771]

@@ViolentRainbow Alert French and Norwegian fishermen.

[@dreammaker9642]

See GWs are a bit more complicated than that because one they have different diets and habits depending on their life stages and perhaps sex. Juveniles eat mostly crustaceans and like most shark species they tend to stay in a nursery area before being grown enough to start migrating. Young adults eat more tuna as a favorite food source while only the big adults and especially big females go for seals and there’s a pretty good reason for that. One seals are a more risky prey than tuna but blubber is a greater reward because it’s much higher in fat. Big females need that blubber to migrate and reproduce. You can imagine being pregnant is very demanding on energy when you a shark that keeps moving. So it’s important to know which ones you sight. How big is it, is it male or female, etc… the sharks could not be after food since most populations already have established areas they go to during certain period. If you only see big females and juveniles it might hint to a nursery near by where females come to give birth. Or there might be an aggregation site like one between Hawaii and California and some sharks venture out into uk waters. Finally I don’t think orcas are that big a factor because the pods in the UK like in California aren’t the ones specifically targeting GWs lik the two in SA right now which are the only ones known to do that. Orcas are just competition and if what happens in cali is any indicator of their relationship then GWs usually avoid orcas. That being said the food source wouldn’t nearly be enough at least in southern UK to sustain a GW population.

[@goldeneagle99]

Crustations? 😂 haha ,born 6 feet long! They target fish and smaller sharks ! Baby seals! Small children!!! At 7 foot they kill adults! That's still a very young g.w.s at 7 foot !!! At 8.5 foot yes they kill seals! And people! And big fish!

[@SandraNelson063]

Great Whites are hanging around Nova Scotia now. So cold temps don't turn them off. Because as I recall, the Atlantic Ocean is basically liquid nitrogen around NS.

[@rhestephens]

Was only surfing in hope cove and bantham the other day. I got to be honest I’d bet we’ve had them here for years. Great video btw. Earned a subscription 🤙🏻 Should maybe check out the thresher shark that was caught in a fisherman’s net at Challaborough (only a few miles away) back in the 80s I think.

[@Power_Crystals]

Border control

[@himbaerno1]

😂

[@LilySaintSin]

Shark infested uplands

[@bundalengerz]

tbf id be put off crossing the channel if we had great whites

[@jbuckley2546]

Yeah, yeah - been hearing this for 40 years.

[@richardland9668]

In 2003 there was a great white shark seen in several locations around Orkney…

[@rawdog314]

Not verified

[@Critical_Stinking]

My mum's uncle's second cousin saw it.

[@richardland9668]

It was actually reported to the sharp trust…. And there are only two sharks which put two fins above the water at the same time…. and in early spring basking sharks are not around opening…. so it’s actually the short trust that suggested that the identification was a white shark… particularly as it was concentrating around rocks with seals….

[@rawdog314]

@@richardland9668 I follow plenty of the shark experts round the uk and their hasn't been one VERIFIED and confirmed sighting of a great white shark in uk history,Richard pierce investigates potential white shark sightings and has narrowed hundreds of sightings down to about 12 that have potential to be white sharks,of those I don't think any are from the Orkney Islands.

[@rawdog314]

@@richardland9668 incorrect, their has never been a verified sighting of a white shark around the Orkney Islands,infact their has never been a verified sighting of a white shark anywhere in the uk. Richard pierce is the main expert on white sharks possible occurrence in British waters.

[@liamdenise246]

Another thing is the Tuna are coming back to UK, true not many, but they are coming back, and enough there has been some small recreational fishing. Now in the old days of UK, there would have been vast schools of Tuna, herring, etc that were coming up to UK in summer, and it is mentioned by a early 1800's report that many sharks were also following them north, including one that seems to be a term for a great white. So if Tuna keep coming back to UK, and protections remain in place for them long enough, it's very possible a great white or two might follow them north and be the first official record.

[@greystash1750]

I’ve heard that too, not sure if it’s a current change or a temperature but supposedly we’ll be getting small bluefin tuna runs through the Irish Sea. If the Spanish and Chinese trawlers don’t get them all we could see some cool new (to us) animals follow them

[@maxpower1337]

Here in cape cod ma we have thousands and once there wasn't any.

[@harry_hughes1030]

Very underrated Channel I just subscribed

[@bobellisp5]

hopefully it will make its way around to dover and patrol our boarders

[@DrMcMoist]

Why don't you patrol the "boarders" if it upsets you so much?

[@homegrownpyrotechnics70-30]

It all depends on the food items we have tons of them here in Massachusetts, off the Cape. Seals are everywhere you look here.

[@pennybunny]

Hammerhead sharks have already been found here that's incorrect.

[@hanoitripper1809]

Just when I was looking forward to go surfing in Devon in shark free waters

[@goldeneagle99]

Haha surfers! Pffft!

[@sheepthatbleep2630]

Thank God! we need all the sharks we can get!

[@DanMan-we9qf]

I would be surprised if anything gets past the French and Spanish fishing nets

[@PaulNurse1]

Not entirely sure I agree. You say 18,000 seals around our southern coastline is not enough food source to sustain a Great White Shark. I think a Great White who is attracted to an area or beach with just 50 resident seals wouldn't find it hard to grab himself a meal. A Great White has to make it to our shores before deciding it's not good hunting ground. I'm convinced it won't be long for evidence to prove we have Great White sharks visiting our waters.

[@wallace500001]

What about the massive mackerel migration from Biscay right up to Northern Scotland.Huge food resource. I have no doubt GW visit our waters.

[@justsayin644]

great whites are not fast enough to catch small fish like that

[@TheFilmGraduates]

The Lybster Fishermen both said it was huge, 16 or 18 feet long. If that's a mako it's one of the biggest ever 😅

[@kevinbatley3116]

Plenty of seals coming across channel on boats lovely food for them

[@nicohusky]

👍

[@himbaerno1]

Really interesting and to the point. Loved it. How can we save the ocean from being overfished?

[@jessicabishop8073]

Stop eating fish and fish products, support charities, educate yourself on sustainable fishing measures :)

[@Humanityiscomedy]

I live in Australia and surf and dive, i live in the ocean and have seen every shark specie besides the one i wanna see a GREATWHITE

[@laurakobetich9809]

You’re crazy, mate😜

[@Humanityiscomedy]

@laurakobetich9809 I wouldn't be Australian if I wasn't 😅

[@BigDavoNorriwong]

Go out further, a couple kms and you probably will see some

[@Humanityiscomedy]

@BigDavoNorriwong haha mate you wouldn't get in the water where I go diving haha, there out there just not in the numbers you think, someone got taken from my local beach about 10m offshore about 10 years ago. Ate him whole. Also live next to penguin Island and seal Island. One of my favourite places to dive is Rottnest Island and that place has had numerous attacks and sighting I've still not seen one

[@MrJessea08]

They are elusive, get yourself in a chopper and you’ll see lots of them, I did when I was flying down to Byron on the east coast, and WA down to SA has the same if not more numbers, I think that there are more than people think, they’re just sneaky bastards.

[@Arthur-Gieves]

Well if they've been spotted that many times then you can add at least two zeroes on to that number to get that actual amount that has visited

[@justsayin644]

they have never been spotted in UK waters.

[@alebroker7587]

With regards to UK water temperature I always thought to be possible to find white pointers in UK waters since you find them all the way up in Canada. The only thing that plays a role herr is not temperature is the food supply

[@jorgeo4483]

It has been seen twice in two Galician ports recently, in the heart of Coruña. It had not appeared for 90 years, in fact, its last appearance was also in Coruña and it devoured an English sailor who fell in the port, it is the only fatal case in Spain. More than the temperatures, I believe it is due to a change in currents, turtles and other Caribbean species have appeared too. There was a time when Mediterranean monk seals (there is a colony in Hawaii) reached Galicia. Anyway there is food here, many whales and dolphins pass near Galicia. The first one can be seen clearly, you don't need to be an expert, there is a recording in the port that lasts several minutes, it is a female and it swims calmly next to a small boat. The other one is larger in a fishing village, but you can see the dorsal and caudal fin and the size and shape clearly coincide, it is not a Cornish mako or a pilgreen shark in spanish, you call it a basking shark.

[@skycloud4802]

There is a lot of overfishing, but there are plenty of deal colonies. The Orcas may be more of any issue to sharks that drive them away. Pollution may play also play a role. But I also suspect that there might be concentrations of more brakish water or saline water around parts of the UK, because the English channel and Irish coastline can be rather narrow at points. If many rivers feed into those sea spots, there might be some concentration in the waters we are seeing that the Great White's sharks simply don't like.

[@jorgeo4483]

@@skycloud4802 Here in Galicia most of our ports have rivers. The White shark is not as efficient regulating salinity as the glyphis genre sharks but its great liver helps him to rest for some time in these places, and of course may live in several temperatures. Considering that it is a great migrator and that the Earth is currently experiencing strong changes in the magnetic poles, it could also influence.

[@charlesstewart9246]

Wouldn't the Gulf Stream play an important role in the sea temperatures and sightings,it does reach the west of Ireland and west Scotland, where the main food supply is apparently. There's plenty of porpoises and dolphin plus minky and occasional humpback spotted in the Clyde. Not only seals up here to eat. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌊🌅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@lyndoncmp5751]

@skycloud4802 99.9% of orcas don't attack great white shark. And other shark species haven't been driven away by orcas, including basking sharks.

[@JohnSmith-cs7jg]

How do they know they haven’t already been in our waters for a long time, I mean who’s checking every part of the water around us every minute of the day??😂😂😂

[@granthostheflatulent]

In the 1980's. windsurfing a long way out in Weymouth bay, something big and dark overtook me under water - passing under my board for a long time - it was going quite a lot faster than I was and it took about 30 seconds or so to complete the pass. Scared the crap out or me - tbh I sat on my board, legs up for ages, maybe 10 mins then headed for shore. I know it may have been a basking shark (known to be around here) or even a whale but hell, man - it freaked me - and at age 61 I still windsurf but ever since the don't venture far off shore. .

[@emilyrose1610]

the food supply is depressing, everyone agrees we need to stop overfishing but very few want to give up eating fish! the possibility of a few scary sharks shouldn't deter us - given the current state of things, UK waters being rich enough to support these incredible creatures one day seems like a dream that i hope i can witness one day. with everything that you've said, it seems very plausible that the UK would've been a part of their natural habitat in the past, and hopefully in the future

[@redjacc7581]

its nothing to be concerned about as no one goes swimming because its to feking cold in the uk and the coastal waters are full of raw sewage.

[@LiamJW33]

Facts

[@AaronColton-vh3ny]

I was at Flambourgh head two days ago which is imbetween Bridlington and Filey and I saw about 100 maybe even 150 seals on the beach and in the water

[@farisakhtar4824]

They're coming over here, taking our jobs ffs

[@207GTBEE]

😂😂

[@Goonz]

they took our job

[@janereid100]

do you go eating seals normally??

[@TomJones-tx7pb]

As a kid I used to swim off the south coast of England. I liked going far out into deep water and specialized in being able to see underwater without a mask or goggles. One day I was out in deep water and something swam under me near the bottom blocking out everything. I could not see anything except this dark shape. I have never felt comfortable floating on the surface in deep water since.

[@grahamjones6106]

Almost every video about great white sharks these days mention orcas and their presence sending white sharks packing and escaping for their lives. The fact is a lot different. Great white sharks don't necessarily leave areas because orcas turn up. Every species of shark has something built in, inside it that when the odor of a dead shark is released into the water, they immediately sense danger and leave the area, regardless of how the dead shark was killed. As for the West Coast community orcas, the largest orca,a massive adult male actually has a huge part of his tail fluke missing due to what just about every marine biologist as well as the scientists that study these orcas agree that he was attacked by a large shark.One final note. Years ago off the Bremmer canyon South Australia,a study took place which clearly showed that ,on the migratory routs through these waters, where large numbers of orcas traveled. Juvenile and small young adult great white sharks stayed in deep water near the bottom when migrating to avoid being attacked and killed by the orcas. However the very biggest adult great white sharks ( that had been fitting with satellite tracking devices), were traveling in the same areas, and the same depths and competing for food alongside the orcas with no fear. And this isn't one shark involved and a off event. The really massive great white sharks don't seem to scare easy and these individuals repeat the process every year. Obviously multiple orcas are capable of overcoming even massive great white sharks, however. They don't seem to be so big and brave due to the very real risk of being seriously injured

[@dreammaker9642]

I for some reason did a lot of reading in this and disappointingly there isn’t that much documentation about this. Most interaction between adult sharks and orcas are competition. We will ignore juveniles being prey because like any juvenile marine organism it’s good to everyone else. What you said about sharks avoiding dead sharks is semi correct. It’s been tested and sharks do vacate but they come back after a bit. What’s interesting about orcas is some sharks will give up hunting grounds rather than compete. Even though most of these pods are rather specialised they have been seen going after sharks sometimes and if you know anything about GWs they want none of that, they don’t like to fight one bit. That all changed last decade when two individuals Port and Starboard starting exclusively hunting GWs for their liver and became extremely efficient at it. So efficient that where I lived in false bay where there are plenty of seal colonies sharks vacated for two years. I mean we went from having a few hundred usually during the season to 0. Not one has been sighted in 2years, in a place where shark diving occurs every day. Just because of these two, another strange thing is they’ve started to reach other orcas which is strange cause usually it’s the pod matriarch that does that but these are two males. Very interesting stuff, I did also come across cases of some sharks getting pressed by orcas and not coming back for years. Then again we don’t know enough about GW to tell its entirely because of the orcas or just the spot isn’t worthwhile anymore. However the dead shark theory as to why all GWs vacate when orcas show up to make a kill isn’t it. GWs die all the time so by that reasoning every time a shark dies the others would leave for years, doesn’t make sense cause you wouldn’t see many sharks then but the smell is repelling to them to some degree but they comeback once they figure there isn’t a threat.

[@grahamjones6106]

@@dreammaker9642 There's a good point that you made. Great white sharks are almost never openly aggressive, where as orcas are well known for playing with baby seals, other species of dolphin and porpoises by basically slowly beating them to death for no obvious reason

[@dreammaker9642]

@@grahamjones6106 I mean sharks aren’t homicidal maniacs like orcas but still no fun for seals. GWs hunting strategy is to inflict one massive bite causing massive damage. They then wait for their prey to bleed out for bit. This makes sense but only if you understand the oceans well. GW are top dog and they very well could just eat things in one go but that increases risk of injury and you don’t live to be almost 6m and two tonnes without knowing serious injury can equal death very quickly. So they kind of behave as if they were fragile even though they are one of the most durable things out there.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

I remember Ron and Valerie Taylor establishing this back in 1985. Right after Shirley Durdin was killed and eaten the Taylor were filming a documentary nearby (off Dangerous Reef near Port Lincoln South Australia) and locals were naturally bit upset. A few great whites had been killed in the area and they couldn't attract anymore. They moved further out, to the Neptune Islands, where they had more luck and were able to proceed with a documentary they were making called In The Realm Of The Shark. However fishermen followed them out there, anchored nearby and overnight hooked a great white shark they were filming, in spite. They dumped it's body back into the ocean (as local authorities had prohibited more great whites being killed) and all the other great whites vanished. Ron and Valerie Taylor stayed at the Neptunes for another two weeks but no others came. There is definitely something given off when a great white shark has been killed by something else and it's body remains there. It's a repellent.

[@Jauertussen1]

Think its clear to accept the fact that Great whites can travel alot, and can be spotted way of their usual areas. but you say it very well, with rare insidences, and the add the fact a human needs to be close by and the shark need to be at surface, just makes it extremly rare. Maby if some british university, stations several sensors capable of detecting large animals, and with tools able to define if its a whale or shark for a long periode both close to shore and long out to ocean in british waters, a good indication of sharks passing by or staying in a area for a periode could be mapped. MacArtney Underwater Technology and other similar companys can supply that kind of equipment for marine reseach

[@oneandonlyjaybee]

I dont think its out the question. If Jaws can swim all the way from Amity Island to the Bahamas just to exact a bit of revenge (and he was a Great White around 20 to 25 feet) then of course one could swim here

[@nicohusky]

😂

[@patmckeane6588]

Good please encourage them to breed in the English channel

[@theorderofeli]

"Dwindling fish stocks", it not people mass fishing, it CORPORATIONS Stop taking the blame and guilt for what these corporations do. Great video

[@nicohusky]

Agree

[@d-matic5017]

IS THIS NATURES WAY OF DETTERING DEM ILLEGAL BOATS

[@GaryTimms-p5j]

Yes, more in the English channel please

[@antiquearcheology3533]

Great whites have been spotted in the Portsmouth area of the south coast for like 3-4 years in a row even quite close to the shore. Always late august to September. The water gets pretty warm in the summer and there is a resident seal population in the harbour. At least a couple of the sightings have been reported by fishermen which know the sharks that usually swim in the waters and the solent areas of the English Channel is deep and drops off quickly. I mean there have been a number of large mako caught off the Isle of Wight so it wouldn’t surprise me to see great whites soon.

[@douglastaggart9360]

Why as no photo or videos been taken off them.

[@antiquearcheology3533]

@@douglastaggart9360 no idea it would be the first thing I’d try to do. There is a KZbin video about the sightings I believe with some of the people who spotted them talking about it.

[@kinocchio]

Orcas: We’re heading to the UK amigos .

[@roncatton7101]

We need these 'Great Whites' in the English channel now!

[@OG-VIDZ]

The bigger n hungrier, the better 😂

[@nicohusky]

😂🙏

[@marti2474]

Quite right. Keep brits out of Europe

[@Goofydownrange]

Imagine thinking sharks are actually in the ocean…. Shocking 😂

[@ericluscombe3272]

I guarantee you white sharks are in the UK there in Newfoundland here in Canada it, prob colder water here then over there if there are seals the sharks will be there.

[@nickrowland1904]

The GWs have always been here, there just have not been any confirmed sightings.

[@ericluscombe3272]

@@nickrowland1904 guarantee they have been I live on Vancouver Island and I know there here somewhere as well The seal population here is huge again when that happens GWs don't take long to find them

[@harrypounds456]

As someone living on the south coast i would love to have a thriving great white population along with seal population, seeing as the species is struggling elsewhere

[@domdom-999]

highly interesting, well done

[@bri_____]

Wouldn't it be terrible if they started living off the English channel ?........

[@chrisbell600]

I saw a fin at seascale in Cumbria a few years back but it was moving very slow so i assumed it was a basking shark.

[@rob20452]

Yes in the channel would be a great idea fingers crossed,.😅

[@grahamjones6106]

Very good video, and for once not dramatised. It's true that there's probably not enough of a food supply for great white sharks to make our waters their home. On the other hand, there's something that wasn't mentioned, topography. This means the seafloor and these sharks operate better where there are steep drop-offs fairly close to the shore and the water goes from shallow water to deep water like a shelf.Another thing is that although it's true that a great white shark would probably leave an area where family pods of orcas are patroling..... The biggest orca that visits the British isles is a massive male called John Coe and he's a member of a family pod and ironically, he has what's been described by marine scientists all over the world as a huge piece of his tail fluke missing, caused by an attack from a very large shark.The most interesting thing about this is that, although probably very rare, the shark actually instigated the attack due to the area of the injury. Anyway, I'm actually quite glad that they are at best, rare visitors to our waters because, just like bears and wolves that once lived here, we would probably wipe them out

[@hogganknowsbest]

Easy prey crossing the channel

[@patkelly8309]

Infrequent visitors is my opinion after looking at it for many years.

[@joshtaylor3397]

Hopefully they can take care of some of the illegal crossings

[@LiamJW33]

Damn you beat me to it 😂😂😂

[@robertford532]

Depends on the culture of a particular pod of Orcas, whether they are shark hunters of not.

[@RobHill00]

Good video👍🏻 well presented and considered!

[@bigbear7567]

I have seen video footage of great white sharks in the UK several times years ago and I know for a fact that it was a great white shark.

[@ashleyjoannabrown8659]

I was just wondering if, over time sharks would be found in UK waters if their predation continued and numbers dwindled where they are found currently? Could their predation be a reason for them to go elsewhere?

[@dibdab699]

Living around the corner from Hope cove and now I'm not sure i want to go swimming again...

[@Andy1119]

I have a question. Would this video exist if it wasn;t for Jaws? Probably not

[@coffeegator6033]

Pretty interesting. I never really looked into UK great white populations before, but every time I heard about someone swimming the English channel I was always in shock that they weren't terrified of a great white the whole time.

[@KingFluffs]

They've been seen around the UK for ages.

[@GCDvlogs]

Brilliant video - thank you :)

[@paulf9487]

I've heard about the alleged Scottish great white photo, but that was the first time I've seen it, I was expecting something rather more unequivocal tbh, not convinced.

[@menelaomenelao5925]

La cocina Inglesa es demasiado mala para cualquiera y los Blancos son muy sibaritas 😅

[@MarineEmpires]

😂

[@saulmadrileno8529]

Lol

[@354sd]

Fish and chips

[@63mckenzie]

I remember swimming off the coast of Devon in the 1970s and something big swam under me. No idea what it was but it was BIG.

[@danielbuxton4493]

Probably a basking shark.

[@rileykesterton4721]

Probably Dave from the pub

[@thewayiseethings4]

Definitely a basking shark they get huge

[@dazdaz105]

Let’s hope they breed in the English Channel !!!

[@WhatHowWhenforWhomWhatpurpose]

Yes. Good news. Bad for the environment that temperatures change OF CAUSE!!!, but the sharks... ❤🎉 Soon in Scandinavia? We'd be so blessed.

[@iceninja46]

Did you mention the Gulf Stream on the West Coast?