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Divers capture the first ever video of a great white shark in the Mediterranean
The rare sighting could help researchers better understand the critically endangered species, which has been recorded in the Mediterranean only a few times.
- Divers have captured what is believed to be the first-ever underwater video of an adult great white shark in the Mediterranean Sea, a milestone encounter released on Monday to mark World Oceans Day.
- The rare footage was filmed by technical diver Derk Remmers at a depth of roughly 40 meters in the Strait of Sicily, a heavily fished biodiversity hotspot situated between Italy and North Africa.
- The encounter occurred during a high-seas conservation mission organized by the Healthy Seas Foundation and Ghost Diving, where volunteers were working to remove abandoned "ghost" fishing nets from a deep shipwreck.
- The massive shark, flanked by a dozen striped pilot fish, circled the divers calmly out of apparent curiosity before swimming away, likely drawn to the site by marine life—including endangered loggerhead sea turtles—trapped in the discarded nets.
- Marine biologists described the sighting as highly unusual and scientifically valuable, noting that the species is critically endangered in the region and most historical data has relied solely on dead specimens caught in commercial fishing gear.
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The sighting took place at sea between Sicily and Tunisia last May.
Around 80 species of sharks and rays live in the Mediterranean Sea. The most common species are angelote, honeycomb and blue shark. The famous white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) maintains a persistent but extremely rare presence in the Mare Nostrum. There have been sightings; in fact, there are more and more.A few weeks ago, a team of divers who participated in a mission to remove abandoned fishing nets in the Strait of Sicily, between Sicily …
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