I wish that they WOULD come to British waters.............all waters for that matter. After all, doesn't it belong to them? Don't worry, though; when British waters begin to warm up because of global warming, white sharks will come.
I was a beach lifeguard in Newquay for 16 years . Been surfing and in the ocean for 25 years . I've never seen a shark . I know there are over 30 species in cornish waters . But never come across one and I've seen lots of strange things in the water 😮
funnily enough i had a porbeagle scrape itself across my lower leg in aroud 3 ft of water cant remember the beach possibly black rock beach massive black rock sticking out and a garage nearby.
Lucky you, we get fucking bull sharks that can operate just fine in like 3 feet of freshwater in the Missouri River in the states. I was on vacation and we went swimming in the river and one of my friends thought he saw one, I totally didn’t think I’d have to worry about sharks in a damn river but I looked it up and sure enough you can run into a shark up the river as far as 2000 miles where they eat trout in the states. At least they are the only species capable of switching to freshwater like that, but they are the worlds most aggressive sharks so the chance they test bite you is very high in comparison. Followed by tiger sharks which I just saw in Hawaii who tend to have a very wide diet of food and if those attack you you definitely won’t live cause it’s not a test bite and there’s a higher chance they come back to finish the job. But I mean I think they view us as Brussels sprouts cause the one I saw diving definitely could have killed me but it swam away not interested so I think the overall probability is low just not a fun thing to see while 60 feet deep in scuba you can’t just get out of the water. That’s why I pack a big ass dive knife now so I could maybe convince it I’m not worth it when it bites.
I live in cornwall and went to college for marine biology and ecology! Also my dad is a fisherman and he’s always said the seals are growing in numbers every years since I was a kid. Even I have seen the numbers increase where I live, I even have a seal that I named and regularly swim with for years :)
I was at St Michael's Mount on Thursday and there was a cows head (with no body) and a seal with no head on the beach! Very strange! I also found a live oyster in the seaweed which I returned to the water!
I know you're a shark scientist but I am a seal fanatic and it made me happy to hear them mentioned (I am also a shark fanatic though but no one really talks about seals much)
Funny enough, the map you showed describing the grey seal population also highlights mainly the Acadian Matirimes from northern New England to Newfoundland/Labrador. Our Canadian waters are just full of GWS in the summers that come up to feed in the Gulf of St. Lawrence all the way from the Gulf of Mexico. There are countless encounters every year in Maritime Canada.
My Father was a Royal Marine based in Malta in the late 50s he was in St Thomas bay on the day of a fatal Shark attack everyone knew the risks of swimming in Maltese Waters the locals used to catch GW and display them in Valletta on a number of occasions my father stated that he had seen half a dozen GW strung up over a two year period. I doubt very much that GW exist in British waters as in Malta local fisherman would spot them and even catch them even if they did not intend to but even so local knowledge of the waters by said fisherman is a vital indicator if they even exist in the waters around Britain.
I live is Southern California and I fish offshore LOTS! and have seen my share of White Sharks! I can assure if someone sees one from a small boat they dont say "Hold Still while I get out my phone"You get out of the way! Outstanding presentation young man!
Well this just isn't true, I live in Australia and they are filmed and spotted all the time, even places they are endangered like the Mediterranean they are filmed and documented fairly regularly.
@@rawdog314 Well it's about confidence, isn't it? A guy in a canvas canoe will find his arse cheeks hovering off that seat by a good 12 inches as he makes 24knots using his paddles, while his richer neighbour in his 80ft shaggin palace will use his 2x V12s to chase that shark to Mexico. Same shark, different perceived threat level. 🤜
Great white sharks have been recorded in Canada and crossing the north Atlantic which has temperatures below 0 most of the year round so it actually is possible for them to live in colder water there for it is quite plausible
I also say it is the usual basking snd as usual angles make it look like it could be. Usually from near the head with it diving away from the canera but the fin gives them away. If we got a good view of yhe shark the dorsal would look small for its size like a tiger Dorsal instead if the white
When I first saw it, I spoke to the bloke who filmed it,asking if he was sure. He was, but I pointed out temperatures (the lowest gws had been found at)etc, being oh so knowledgeable. He was there, and is convinced it was a basking, end of story really!
I am lucky to have visited SA a few years ago. Just knowing I was looking out on ocean they occupy was so exciting. I went out to Gans-baii & decided against going in a cage because there had recently been two lives lost in Fish Hoek reportedly by a shark the size of a mini bus & the argument of the locals I spoke to was that chumming was bringing huge specimens in to the beaches. On the UK, I think If they are resident, they are not elusive or in-evident. They follow fishing boats, predate on seal colonies, leaving huge scarring on them from close encounters. They even test taste surfers & swimmers, Kristian's more detailed expert knowledge for me, debunks the myth even further. I believe that if they were here, we would know all about it.
We used to see a lot of basking sharks off the coast of Sussex in Rye Bay when I was a lad. I used to swim out quite far in those days with another good swimmer and one day we tried to keep up with a basking shark that came close to us. No chance! As for Great Whites...It was on the TV that one had been seen recently off Cornwall. Thanks for your very informative video. Excellent.
excited for the new season!! when you upload every sunday its always while im doing my shift at work where im on my own and its usually slow, so ive gotten in the habit of watching your new videos while i work. ive been missing them lately
Lots of GWS are tagged off Nova Scotia & New England in very similar SSTs as the U.K. so their presence here would be entirely credible. Especially around Western Ireland too, I would have thought.
okay, are you 100% right on what you are saying because great white sharks have been seen off Denmark two years in a row. as said and although it is not common, there may be some truth about great white sharks in UK waters.
Just a thought Great Whites often swim at a depth of 1000 meters (cruising) when migrating. We know this from animals that have been tagged and they can dive below 2500 meters. Now the water temperature at that depth depending where you are in the world can be between 4 and 6 degrees C, so the temperatures around our shores aren't going to bother them at all, In fact the surface temperatures are going to be most agreeable for them. Its like sea turtles in Cardigan bay. People often thought they had been blown off course by storms or got caught in ocean currents as they were not expected this far north. Turns out they are regular visitors and come to feed on the massive amounts of jelly fish found in the Irish sea!
Not saying there isn't the stray GW in UK waters occasionally, but if there were a viable population there they would make their presence known like here on the northern Gulf of Mexico where I live. They're not as numerous as other parts of the country, but they're seen, photographed, and caught regularly.
its amazing that they have been catching great whites from the beach in your neck of the woods! if you had told anyone in the 80s-90s that there were great white sharks just off the beach on the gulf coast of florida they would have thought you were crazy...
If we're talking water temperatures GWs are seen regularly off of Nova Scotia in Canada which averages 17.1°C in Summer months. Typically they hang out there from July to early November and those later months have similar water temps to Scotland and off the Irish coast. Back in 2014 a tagged GW was pinged in the Bay of Biscay and fisherman do report seeing them regularly so as you rightly say the small distance up to the UK is not impossible. Indeed GWs are sighted and have been tagged off of Prince Edward Island in Canada. Islander Outdoors put up a video this week to discuss the Sand Tiger Shark that was found on the Hampshire coast and I believe another one has now washed up in Ireland. These sharks frequent much warmer water normally so that could be a nod to sharks changing habits, climate change and rising sea temperatures or the hunt for food. Either way, if they're venturing North as warm water sharks, it's far more possible a GW would be able to do so successfully. Also on Islander Outdoors video he mentioned he had spoken to Ocearxh who are still planning to explore the UK and Mediterranean in combination.
Porbeagle sharks are close relatives , prefer colder waters admittedly but not massively so , the biggest breeding ground for Porbeagles in the NE Atlantic is between the Pentland Firth west to Cape Wrath and north to west from Fair Isle ( where the world record rod caught one was taken and that was well over 500lb ), there has been a constant increase in Tuna in the northern north sea ( film of feeding Bluefin NE of Shetland in late summer has come out over the last few years ) as well as there being large number on occasion of Pilchards and Sardines ( in January/February from North of Shetland down to Montrose , we were catching 100kg some hauls on the FRV Scotia back in 1993 with commercial scale hauls landed by the pelagic fleet ) , one of my former colleagues at the Marine Lab in Aberdeen ( where I worked as a Fishery Scientist from 1990-1999 ) was diving in the Channel in the late 1990's and he was convinced that he saw one when he was diving on a wreck and he wouldn't go public like that without being convinced as reputational damage in that line of work means loosing your job
I think for what it's worth, people desperate for a Great White Shark confirmation should arrive the very least appreciate the sharks we know we already have. Porbeagles are very exciting sharks. They look at lot like Great Whites whilst being far less dangerous compared to them. I think it's cool that the UK is currently one of the few spots in the world where you could openly swim safely knowing there'll be no Tiger, Bull, or (likely) Great White in sight.
Great video, I do agree that it's possible that the occasional great white shark visits our waters, however there's simply not enough food for a permanent population here.Theres an argument that the great white shark population in the Mediterranean sea doesn't depend on seals for their diet and they're more inclined to hunt bottlenose dolphins, common dolphins, other sharks and tuna however, even in the Mediterranean sea, the white shark population has massively declined due to over fishing.
Great White sharks have a huge migration. They're practically everywhere and can be found in unlikely locations. Even Whales have been spotted going up rivers. A great White in colder water with its main food source. Very possible.
When I was a kid growing up in Newfoundland my grand parents who were fishermen told me we didn’t have big sharks yet they have a tagged great white who loves hanging around the island
I do find it quite funny that people almost want to see a great white in our waters. I’d be very nervous to see that myself, but if sharks are seen I think people need to act responsibly. Also, visited Cornwall last year. Porthleven is definitely a place that captured my heart. The hmmmm all of Cornwall is absolutely beautiful though. We did see the seals… 3 in total out of all the coasts we visited.
@Shredded Gainz Do you think! There are hundreds of fishermen, Jet skiers,boat and kayak lovers that would beg to differ! Not many people in general will get to see them unless they surface or breach our waters are so murky and dark you would literally have to bump nose to nose to see them! Our water has actually been proven to be of perfect temperature for them! They have been proven to be in the Mediterranean Sea so how do you think they get there???
@@waynekieft4952 Sure, and there are loads of people going on fairy-expeditions in Iceland. Some even to "connect to their roots", though they've unfortunately been confused most likely about where they're from
@espi371 Don't patronise me,there are hundreds of marine biologists that believe they are there,in matter of fact they should be in our waters,there is no valid reason to say they are not! Just because they haven't been seen! Nobody knows with 100 per cent surety what is in our waters! People didn't believe Panda bears existed in China until not so long ago!
A late catch up. An expedition from Ocearch is coming to look at Med and European Great White sharks. It is also coming to UK waters. There is serious money behind their work. Will they find anything? Who knows. If I had to bet 50p on White Sharks in UK waters I would say yes but as the odd visitor like many very rare species. I wouldnt bet 50p on the expedition finding the evidence but good luck. I have tried to use my camera for wild life videos when I 'knew' they were there and still struggled. In the episodes Kris mentioned I suspect they happened so quickly a few grainy images are all you will get.
Remember that those temps are for your avaerage sized GW. The larger the shark the more tolerable of colder water it gets so a 5m+ GW could easily tolerate those 7c waters. Esspecially if there is a blubbery food source. The colder the water the less they need to feed aswell.
There was a GWS incident in the UK. I remember it. The Police were all like, "Shut the beaches, warn everyone" but they were overruled by the Mayor, who needed the tourists as cover for his human trafficking operation. They made a movie I think, but they played up the Shark's role in the trafficking, in case the real life Mayor of England sued them. Idk.
Howdo mate. Ocearch said that they were tied up with another project, but they're coming this year..!?! I dunno, but that's what they said. We'll see..... Islander outdoors will find the buggers anyway! Or at least some makos or porbeagles 🤞
@@SHARKBYTES It seems to be easy to use facts, or broad statistics to prove the likelihood. Obviously you have a much better idea than any of us, as do ocearch. So I can't really see them coming to look for, what can only be, a potential needle in a haystack of haystacks.? Very good luck to them, if they do.
I am a fisherman fishing Loch long there was a great white spotted and on video just off west coast of Scotland I saw it on TV so must be archived with BBC or STV check it out
Some of those photos and claims are ridiculous. I agree about the seals bottling. The basking shark is fairly obvious, despite the quality of film. That one taken by your mate, could it be a big porbeagle? Colour looked wrong for a GW, but the dorsal shape was wrong for a BS. I’m fairly sure we get the odd white enter our waters occasionally, but probably nowhere near land. Anyway, interesting video, thanks
In the uk we do have the smaller cousin the por beagle and a rare few sand tigers that have recently washed ashore. Cornwal and scotland have basking sharks annually and are often mistake n in the uk papers as a great white
From Queensland Australia, we'd LOVE you to have some of our sharks, Great White, Grey Nurse, Tiger Shark, Bull Nose (really aggressive) & often in packs, you are most welcome to have some "immigrate" there, I'd relax a bit more when surfing here.
Funny you should say that, as two grey nurses (also known as sand tigers) have recently washed ashore, one in Hampshire on the south coast of England and another in Wexford in Ireland. They're the first documented appearances of the species in these waters and some scientists are theorising it's down to water temperatures rising. If they're starting to appear here, who knows what else is on the way?
Interestingly, the New Zealand Great White shark population extends to the southernmost Stewart Island, where water temperatures are certainly very low.
@@GamingMediocrity Wear a condom because we don't want your genetics running around!!! My son always uses a camera for diving,but never does he use them for surfing!One of his team usually films his rides from a jet-ski! Get a life and learn how to read between lines it will do you a favour! Have a wonderful weekend! God bless!
I'd like to add whilst diving in the depths of the sea around theUK you would be lucky to see your hand infront of your face! So to actually get footage of a shark under the water would be pretty difficult! Every time my son has witnessed them they have either breached or were on the surface with just the fin visible! He hasn't got any reason too make shit up! He knows what he saw! And he knows enough about the ocean to know that what he saw were G W sharks!
@@waynekieft4952No reason for them not to be in waters around here. As he's seen them that many times it's probably a good place to conduct some scientific experiments to verify the fact that they are there.
Glad to have you back for season 6 Kristian, great video as always. When you get the chance I would love to see a video on identifying sharks and rays. I enjoyed how you knew the two videos were basking sharks because of the shape of the dorsal fin, colour of the skin and the white around the mouth. I once had a shark take my catch, it showed us it's Caudal fin and we saw the colour, it would have been great to identify the type of shark that took our dinner!
On the one hand, they've been confirmed as far north as southern Alaska in the Pacific, which is pretty chilly even in the summer. On the other hand, they HAVE been confirmed. Both following in fish on the line and getting stranded. And Alaska has exponentially fewer people than southern England and far, far more coastline. So if they are in the UK on any regular basis, someone is likely to have seen one. Keep in mind that when a white decides to pay a visit, it may not be subtle at all. Given the sheer number of humans on the water around the UK, I think if there were a regular population of whites, there would be some very clear documentation of it just by statistical probability. And instead we get grainy pictures of what are almost certainly other species.
@@lyndoncmp5751, Anecdotes are nice , but theres no clear , conclusive evidence of White Sharks in English waters. No photos , and no video. If they were actually there, the odds are that there would be one or both.
Look what i said in my comment about sea turtles. They were thought to be rare or stray it turns out they visit regularly but mange to go unnoticed most of the time!
As I mentioned in a comment that I left on one of Islander Outdoors' videos, I want to say that I think you people in the UK and Ireland are LUCKY that you have so few great whites in your waters! Sure, they look cool from a distance, but when you're sharing the water with animals that can and do bite people in half, it fundamentally ruins the fun of swimming, surfing and kayaking. I would happily go for a swim in Ireland or the UK, but you'll never catch me swimming on the Pacific coast of North America where I live! Once you've seen one of those monsters in real life, the ocean simply loses most of its appeal. A scarcity of white sharks is a BLESSING not a curse. Cheers! --N
Yep, I wouldn't swim there either. I went kyacking and was always wondering if there where any around me. A surfer was attacked in the bay next to where I was.
We have a massive population of seals in the North Sea and I personally have stumbled upon a seal carcass with a semi circular bite out of it with teeth bites, it even made the papers.
I once saw a wasted up seal carcass that raised my eyebrows in the east of England. It's entirely possible that parts of it could have rotted away quicker than others, and then scavenged on by birds in that spot. But at the time I found it strange how much it looked like a large chunk was out of it.
Plenty of porbeagle shark near me in the summer time, was mackerel fishing one evening off the rocks with a heavy century tip tornado old beach rod. Went through 4 mackerel trace's, lol they just kept picking off the mackerel hooking themselves and I decided to not do any more harm to them. The hooks will rust in a few days...no harm done hopefully
A 5.2 metre great white, one of the biggest ever recorded, was caught in a fishing net off Prince Edward Island, Canada in 1983. Their average sea temperatures are significantly lower than ours.
There is a much more recent report of a great white close to home. You can watch the video. A young Italian boy caught a shark with his father. They were towing it in, and a massive white decided to have it instead. The video is still available. It's called Great White spotted off Rimini. They have quite a sizeable Thresher shark, and the White just saws it in half.
They are definitely there, but they are pretty rare out there. They are also up in Scotland but only in the few weeks the water temp is OK for them and only when the seals take then up there. It’s a natural cycle.
what do you mean about the water temp? too cold or too warm? nova scotia/newfoundland water temp is generally colder than any part of Scotland. they get some of the tail end of the gulf stream however it by passes nova scotia and newfie land...
Awesome show bud, I was down your neck of the woods last weekend, didn't see anything! it was low tide 😂 as I stumbled over rock for a swim, Keep up the great work mate 👍
one other thing, ring boots in torbay and ask if they developed film in the early 80's, if they did the girl on the counter back then has a picture of a great white in the surf around 25 meters from the shore (torbay), her aunty was on the beach pointing at it when the shot was taken.
I live in Jersey, Channel Islands, and I've worked on the lobster and crab boats on and off since the '90's. We've had Porbeagles cruise around the boat, and we've thrown them scad baitfish so they've come up close... they're way bigger than people expect and it wouldn't surprise me if they were mistaken for their more famous cousins. There's a really good video of some lads from neighbouring Guernsey doing the exact same kicking around somewhere. We have offshore reefs literally everywhere, and lots of seals. We're also warmer again, especially close to the island since our 'Energy from Waste' incinerator started pumping out it's heat exchangers into the RAMSAR site to the South of the island! We now have a huge tuna population that wasn't here 8 years ago. You should come over and have a look around one day.
I'm in Vancouver Canada. My mother is from Guernsey, I've been there a few times. as a child. teen & adult. Nothing to do with sharks - you live in a beautiful part of the world, Rick. 😊
@@sherylbjerre9636 aw amazing! My wife has two aunts in Vancouver, too! I have yet to visit but I've heard it's lovely where you live, also. Sending my best wishes from your maternal home waters :)
@@rickjones641 apologies, didnt realize notifications to posts came via 'social & promos in my email box! Thank you for your best wishes from the Channel Islands! Two aunts in Vancouver?! wow, then I shall wish you & your wife 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🌲🌲🐻🍁 greetings from the Pacific Northwest Canada, namely British Columbia. Yes, it's a city immersed in nature, moderate climate, flowers & blooms typical of UK, unfortunately, worst forest fires this summer over much of the Province ( less Vancouver). So as not to hijack this site LOL, I believe we have the 6 gill sharks Hornby Island, & of course, home to Orcas whales. Cheers!
I found two teeth of a great white on separate occasions in Pembrokeshire west Wales. I know a lot of other people who has found them also so they must be here at least from time to time.
When talking about the densities of seals, all those other places are significantly larger than Cornwall/South Wales. 100,000 seals in south Australia? Not dissimilar in terms of density to 5,000 in Cornwall. That's about the same area just around Sydney.
Following the smell of big game tuna the great white apex predators have moved into our seas now we have recovered some of the fish stocks just like the rare salmon shark
Came across a dead seal on the beach at Findhorn a few weeks back, one half closer to The Captain's Table and the other half further up the beach, guts hanging out and everything, my Husky kept trying to roll on it.
You should come visit east anglia,plenty of seals here and I’m sure I’ve read in the paper about a few being washed up with huge bite marks taken out of them x
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@@MrEvilTurkey this is great news! I didn’t know if it was working on mobile devices yet
I wish that they WOULD come to British waters.............all waters for that matter.
After all, doesn't it belong to them?
Don't worry, though; when British waters begin to warm up because of global warming, white sharks will come.
Where in Cornwall are you? I lived in St.Austell for six years. Used to go to mevagissey to the pub. Nice to hear some of the familiar places.
Thanks for the shout out bud! Loved this video! I’ll be rocking some of that merch in no time 🌊 thanks dude!
I was a beach lifeguard in Newquay for 16 years . Been surfing and in the ocean for 25 years . I've never seen a shark . I know there are over 30 species in cornish waters . But never come across one and I've seen lots of strange things in the water 😮
funnily enough i had a porbeagle scrape itself across my lower leg in aroud 3 ft of water cant remember the beach possibly black rock beach massive black rock sticking out and a garage nearby.
Used to see baby sharks washed up on the coast of hastings. Caught by the fisherman and discarded I'd guess
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Lucky you, we get fucking bull sharks that can operate just fine in like 3 feet of freshwater in the Missouri River in the states. I was on vacation and we went swimming in the river and one of my friends thought he saw one, I totally didn’t think I’d have to worry about sharks in a damn river but I looked it up and sure enough you can run into a shark up the river as far as 2000 miles where they eat trout in the states. At least they are the only species capable of switching to freshwater like that, but they are the worlds most aggressive sharks so the chance they test bite you is very high in comparison. Followed by tiger sharks which I just saw in Hawaii who tend to have a very wide diet of food and if those attack you you definitely won’t live cause it’s not a test bite and there’s a higher chance they come back to finish the job. But I mean I think they view us as Brussels sprouts cause the one I saw diving definitely could have killed me but it swam away not interested so I think the overall probability is low just not a fun thing to see while 60 feet deep in scuba you can’t just get out of the water. That’s why I pack a big ass dive knife now so I could maybe convince it I’m not worth it when it bites.
Yeah I would love to hear about all the stuff you’ve seen over the years.
The purple lighting is AWESOME!
I live in cornwall and went to college for marine biology and ecology! Also my dad is a fisherman and he’s always said the seals are growing in numbers every years since I was a kid. Even I have seen the numbers increase where I live, I even have a seal that I named and regularly swim with for years :)
My mum moved to Holywell Bay & she saw a or of seals around there & other parts of Cornwall.
I remember the seals in Newquay harbour. 💕.
well somethings not eating them then if they're growing in numbers
I was at St Michael's Mount on Thursday and there was a cows head (with no body) and a seal with no head on the beach! Very strange! I also found a live oyster in the seaweed which I returned to the water!
i spearfish around cornwall. i reckon i see seals atleast 50% of the time i’m in and as mentioned they are getting more numerous
The seal numbers here in north east Scotland are out of control and damaging the salmon numbers! They need their numbers to be controlled!
I know you're a shark scientist but I am a seal fanatic and it made me happy to hear them mentioned (I am also a shark fanatic though but no one really talks about seals much)
"seal fanatic" is such a cute title.
Do love a seal tbf
I love seals too. Especially baby elephant seals. Stunning faces. ❤
He called them sea puppies. So cute. Not entirely accurate but who ever cares, so cute.
A shark scientist and a seal fanatic walk into a bar ....
Just when I thought there was nothing left to watch on UA-cam...
Shark Bytes Season 6!!!
Thanks Kristian for this surprise Shark Sunday super!
We’re back!! 🎉🎉
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Lol, the oceanic white tip bit made me laugh. Great topic and great to have you back. P.S I think the purple is very chill.
GWS are regularly found off the case of Canada where the waters are colder than Scotland
But aren't the waters warmer in the summer, on the North American coast, than they are the UK Coast?
Funny enough, the map you showed describing the grey seal population also highlights mainly the Acadian Matirimes from northern New England to Newfoundland/Labrador. Our Canadian waters are just full of GWS in the summers that come up to feed in the Gulf of St. Lawrence all the way from the Gulf of Mexico. There are countless encounters every year in Maritime Canada.
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I could totally imagine a similar migration pattern from the Met up north around the UK.
My Father was a Royal Marine based in Malta in the late 50s he was in St Thomas bay on the day of a fatal Shark attack everyone knew the risks of swimming in Maltese Waters the locals used to catch GW and display them in Valletta on a number of occasions my father stated that he had seen half a dozen GW strung up over a two year period.
I doubt very much that GW exist in British waters as in Malta local fisherman would spot them and even catch them even if they did not intend to but even so local knowledge of the waters by said fisherman is a vital indicator if they even exist in the waters around Britain.
Your videos are genuinely amazing, thank for for shining a light on my favorite animals. (The thresher is my favorite and i have it tattooed)
Yay ! Glad to see you back ! The lighting looks good.
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@@SHARKBYTES lol time drags when it's break from shark content 😂🦈
I live is Southern California and I fish offshore LOTS! and have seen my share of White Sharks! I can assure if someone sees one from a small boat they dont say "Hold Still while I get out my phone"You get out of the way! Outstanding presentation young man!
Well this just isn't true, I live in Australia and they are filmed and spotted all the time, even places they are endangered like the Mediterranean they are filmed and documented fairly regularly.
I was 9 when I First watched Jaws at the Cinema. I remember that day.
The thought of Swimming, and seeing That Fin.
@@rawdog314 I think they imply the viewer is scared into a basic state of bthinking" Ibneed to evade that monster" and not "where's my camera?".
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@@TeddyBear-ii4yc I know what he's saying, I'm saying that simply isn't true, people in boats will film great whites ha
@@rawdog314 Well it's about confidence, isn't it? A guy in a canvas canoe will find his arse cheeks hovering off that seat by a good 12 inches as he makes 24knots using his paddles, while his richer neighbour in his 80ft shaggin palace will use his 2x V12s to chase that shark to Mexico.
Same shark, different perceived threat level. 🤜
Really relaxing decor.... love it. Love your enthusiasm.
Great white sharks have been recorded in Canada and crossing the north Atlantic which has temperatures below 0 most of the year round so it actually is possible for them to live in colder water there for it is quite plausible
I also say it is the usual basking snd as usual angles make it look like it could be. Usually from near the head with it diving away from the canera but the fin gives them away. If we got a good view of yhe shark the dorsal would look small for its size like a tiger Dorsal instead if the white
When I first saw it, I spoke to the bloke who filmed it,asking if he was sure. He was, but I pointed out temperatures (the lowest gws had been found at)etc, being oh so knowledgeable. He was there, and is convinced it was a basking, end of story really!
12:37 It's spyhopping! I love it when they do that. It's so unusual. To me that's more interesting than the drama behind the photo.
I am lucky to have visited SA a few years ago. Just knowing I was looking out on ocean they occupy was so exciting. I went out to Gans-baii & decided against going in a cage because there had recently been two lives lost in Fish Hoek reportedly by a shark the size of a mini bus & the argument of the locals I spoke to was that chumming was bringing huge specimens in to the beaches. On the UK, I think If they are resident, they are not elusive or in-evident. They follow fishing boats, predate on seal colonies, leaving huge scarring on them from close encounters. They even test taste surfers & swimmers, Kristian's more detailed expert knowledge for me, debunks the myth even further. I believe that if they were here, we would know all about it.
We used to see a lot of basking sharks off the coast of Sussex in Rye Bay when I was a lad. I used to swim out quite far in those days with another good swimmer and one day we tried to keep up with a basking shark that came close to us. No chance! As for Great Whites...It was on the TV that one had been seen recently off Cornwall. Thanks for your very informative video. Excellent.
excited for the new season!! when you upload every sunday its always while im doing my shift at work where im on my own and its usually slow, so ive gotten in the habit of watching your new videos while i work. ive been missing them lately
Glad to hear shark bytes gets you through work!
Sunday ? Darn it , we're going to have to stone you now , working on the Sabbath , the nerve....
Lots of GWS are tagged off Nova Scotia & New England in very similar SSTs as the U.K. so their presence here would be entirely credible. Especially around Western Ireland too, I would have thought.
okay, are you 100% right on what you are saying because great white sharks have been seen off Denmark two years in a row. as said and although it is not common, there may be some truth about great white sharks in UK waters.
Just a thought Great Whites often swim at a depth of 1000 meters (cruising) when migrating. We know this from animals that have been tagged and they can dive below 2500 meters. Now the water temperature at that depth depending where you are in the world can be between 4 and 6 degrees C, so the temperatures around our shores aren't going to bother them at all, In fact the surface temperatures are going to be most agreeable for them.
Its like sea turtles in Cardigan bay. People often thought they had been blown off course by storms or got caught in ocean currents as they were not expected this far north. Turns out they are regular visitors and come to feed on the massive amounts of jelly fish found in the Irish sea!
So glad to see the beginning of Season 6. I hope you had a nice break.
Went scuba diving this past weekend here in Guam. Saw several Blacktip Reef Sharks and one Nurse Shark. Seeing any shark always gets me excited.
I'm in Australia and "excited" is not the response I get.
As cool of an experience as that sounds, I'd of been shitting my self personally lol
Love the content! Ocearch are coming this summer apparently a delay from last year so I’ll be looking forward to hearing more
Not saying there isn't the stray GW in UK waters occasionally, but if there were a viable population there they would make their presence known like here on the northern Gulf of Mexico where I live. They're not as numerous as other parts of the country, but they're seen, photographed, and caught regularly.
Exactly this, people love a good shark story though
its amazing that they have been catching great whites from the beach in your neck of the woods! if you had told anyone in the 80s-90s that there were great white sharks just off the beach on the gulf coast of florida they would have thought you were crazy...
If GWs ate here, they'll be passers, like Great Hammerheads.
I think that the GWS is an occasional visitor rather than having a population here
@@brojajacra the question is, why DONT they have a population there? its very similar to areas they already thrive in...
I agree. Video from the kayaker in Mull definitely looks like a Basking Shark.
That video of the basking shark was pretty cool. Not often you see those.
If we're talking water temperatures GWs are seen regularly off of Nova Scotia in Canada which averages 17.1°C in Summer months.
Typically they hang out there from July to early November and those later months have similar water temps to Scotland and off the Irish coast.
Back in 2014 a tagged GW was pinged in the Bay of Biscay and fisherman do report seeing them regularly so as you rightly say the small distance up to the UK is not impossible. Indeed GWs are sighted and have been tagged off of Prince Edward Island in Canada.
Islander Outdoors put up a video this week to discuss the Sand Tiger Shark that was found on the Hampshire coast and I believe another one has now washed up in Ireland. These sharks frequent much warmer water normally so that could be a nod to sharks changing habits, climate change and rising sea temperatures or the hunt for food. Either way, if they're venturing North as warm water sharks, it's far more possible a GW would be able to do so successfully.
Also on Islander Outdoors video he mentioned he had spoken to Ocearxh who are still planning to explore the UK and Mediterranean in combination.
They are found in Alaskan waters too and one GW was caught in the Bering sea. British waters pose zero problems for GWs.
Porbeagle sharks are close relatives , prefer colder waters admittedly but not massively so , the biggest breeding ground for Porbeagles in the NE Atlantic is between the Pentland Firth west to Cape Wrath and north to west from Fair Isle ( where the world record rod caught one was taken and that was well over 500lb ), there has been a constant increase in Tuna in the northern north sea ( film of feeding Bluefin NE of Shetland in late summer has come out over the last few years ) as well as there being large number on occasion of Pilchards and Sardines ( in January/February from North of Shetland down to Montrose , we were catching 100kg some hauls on the FRV Scotia back in 1993 with commercial scale hauls landed by the pelagic fleet ) , one of my former colleagues at the Marine Lab in Aberdeen ( where I worked as a Fishery Scientist from 1990-1999 ) was diving in the Channel in the late 1990's and he was convinced that he saw one when he was diving on a wreck and he wouldn't go public like that without being convinced as reputational damage in that line of work means loosing your job
I think for what it's worth, people desperate for a Great White Shark confirmation should arrive the very least appreciate the sharks we know we already have. Porbeagles are very exciting sharks. They look at lot like Great Whites whilst being far less dangerous compared to them.
I think it's cool that the UK is currently one of the few spots in the world where you could openly swim safely knowing there'll be no Tiger, Bull, or (likely) Great White in sight.
We have plenty of Great White Sharks here in Western Australia, they’re part of the environment here, together with other species.
Great video, I do agree that it's possible that the occasional great white shark visits our waters, however there's simply not enough food for a permanent population here.Theres an argument that the great white shark population in the Mediterranean sea doesn't depend on seals for their diet and they're more inclined to hunt bottlenose dolphins, common dolphins, other sharks and tuna however, even in the Mediterranean sea, the white shark population has massively declined due to over fishing.
Great White sharks have a huge migration. They're practically everywhere and can be found in unlikely locations. Even Whales have been spotted going up rivers. A great White in colder water with its main food source. Very possible.
Welcome back! Hope you had a great time off! And I think the purple lighting looks great 🦈🙌🏻
Awesome video and glad to have you back, Kris!!!
Thank you! Glad to be back!
Theres massive gw around maine and all way up around nova scotia waters gotta be very very cold
There was one in Portsmouth, me and my pal took a boat out to find it.
When I was a kid growing up in Newfoundland my grand parents who were fishermen told me we didn’t have big sharks yet they have a tagged great white who loves hanging around the island
Hello my friend from Cornwall! Another great video buddy...Hope all is well across the pond..!
Keeping well here! Cornish waters warming up now, might be time to get back in the sea :D
I do find it quite funny that people almost want to see a great white in our waters. I’d be very nervous to see that myself, but if sharks are seen I think people need to act responsibly.
Also, visited Cornwall last year. Porthleven is definitely a place that captured my heart. The hmmmm all of Cornwall is absolutely beautiful though. We did see the seals… 3 in total out of all the coasts we visited.
yeah xD, but its all good, there arent any, theyve never been seen here
@Shredded Gainz Do you think! There are hundreds of fishermen, Jet skiers,boat and kayak lovers that would beg to differ! Not many people in general will get to see them unless they surface or breach our waters are so murky and dark you would literally have to bump nose to nose to see them! Our water has actually been proven to be of perfect temperature for them! They have been proven to be in the Mediterranean Sea so how do you think they get there???
@@waynekieft4952 we don't live in the Stone Age anymore, if they were in UK waters we would know.
@@waynekieft4952 Sure, and there are loads of people going on fairy-expeditions in Iceland. Some even to "connect to their roots", though they've unfortunately been confused most likely about where they're from
@espi371 Don't patronise me,there are hundreds of marine biologists that believe they are there,in matter of fact they should be in our waters,there is no valid reason to say they are not! Just because they haven't been seen! Nobody knows with 100 per cent surety what is in our waters! People didn't believe Panda bears existed in China until not so long ago!
A late catch up. An expedition from Ocearch is coming to look at Med and European Great White sharks. It is also coming to UK waters. There is serious money behind their work. Will they find anything? Who knows. If I had to bet 50p on White Sharks in UK waters I would say yes but as the odd visitor like many very rare species. I wouldnt bet 50p on the expedition finding the evidence but good luck. I have tried to use my camera for wild life videos when I 'knew' they were there and still struggled. In the episodes Kris mentioned I suspect they happened so quickly a few grainy images are all you will get.
Pretty good video! Please more of this! greeetz from germany
Great to see you back
Welcome back! 🦈 bytes!
Remember that those temps are for your avaerage sized GW. The larger the shark the more tolerable of colder water it gets so a 5m+ GW could easily tolerate those 7c waters. Esspecially if there is a blubbery food source. The colder the water the less they need to feed aswell.
Weird watching this video in the south of Australia where we have weekly sightings during seasonal visits from the GWS.
Great to see a new video. Quality as always 👍👍
Wooooo! welcome back for another season. I hope your break was restful. I just got my merch a little bit ago and its so comfortable!
So glad to hear you're enjoying your Merch!
Very good presentation
Impressive debunking. I trust this channel far more than a few others reporting on sharks
There was a GWS incident in the UK. I remember it. The Police were all like, "Shut the beaches, warn everyone" but they were overruled by the Mayor, who needed the tourists as cover for his human trafficking operation. They made a movie I think, but they played up the Shark's role in the trafficking, in case the real life Mayor of England sued them. Idk.
Sounds like Jaws hahaha
Howdo mate. Ocearch said that they were tied up with another project, but they're coming this year..!?! I dunno, but that's what they said.
We'll see.....
Islander outdoors will find the buggers anyway! Or at least some makos or porbeagles 🤞
@@jezjukes I did see Matt’s video (after I posted this one), although the cynic in me isn’t convinced they’ll come. I’ll stand to be corrected!
@@SHARKBYTES It seems to be easy to use facts, or broad statistics to prove the likelihood. Obviously you have a much better idea than any of us, as do ocearch. So I can't really see them coming to look for, what can only be, a potential needle in a haystack of haystacks.?
Very good luck to them, if they do.
probably wasnt a GW
I'm digging the lighting! The purple looks awesome.
Yeah i'm a big fan, glad you like it too!
I am a fisherman fishing Loch long there was a great white spotted and on video just off west coast of Scotland I saw it on TV so must be archived with BBC or STV check it out
Nice new lights. Purple is the best color
Some of those photos and claims are ridiculous. I agree about the seals bottling. The basking shark is fairly obvious, despite the quality of film. That one taken by your mate, could it be a big porbeagle? Colour looked wrong for a GW, but the dorsal shape was wrong for a BS.
I’m fairly sure we get the odd white enter our waters occasionally, but probably nowhere near land. Anyway, interesting video, thanks
Ayy he's back! Looking forward to this season :D
Looking forward to continuing with S6. Great that u r back Kris. Be good to see u n Hal collab on an actual live if possible 🏴🦈
The lighting is cool!
In the uk we do have the smaller cousin the por beagle and a rare few sand tigers that have recently washed ashore.
Cornwal and scotland have basking sharks annually and are often mistake n in the uk papers as a great white
From Queensland Australia, we'd LOVE you to have some of our sharks, Great White, Grey Nurse, Tiger Shark, Bull Nose (really aggressive) & often in packs, you are most welcome to have some "immigrate" there, I'd relax a bit more when surfing here.
Funny you should say that, as two grey nurses (also known as sand tigers) have recently washed ashore, one in Hampshire on the south coast of England and another in Wexford in Ireland. They're the first documented appearances of the species in these waters and some scientists are theorising it's down to water temperatures rising. If they're starting to appear here, who knows what else is on the way?
Interestingly, the New Zealand Great White shark population extends to the southernmost Stewart Island, where water temperatures are certainly very low.
Stewart Island is where most of them are found in NZ. I saw one from the plane window when we flew to the island from Invercargill.
My son is a diver and a keen surfer! He has witnessed on 3 or 4 occasions White Sharks on the Pembrokeshire coast! They are here for a fact!
Tell him to wear a GoPro
@@GamingMediocrity agreed
@@GamingMediocrity Wear a condom because we don't want your genetics running around!!! My son always uses a camera for diving,but never does he use them for surfing!One of his team usually films his rides from a jet-ski! Get a life and learn how to read between lines it will do you a favour! Have a wonderful weekend! God bless!
I'd like to add whilst diving in the depths of the sea around theUK you would be lucky to see your hand infront of your face! So to actually get footage of a shark under the water would be pretty difficult! Every time my son has witnessed them they have either breached or were on the surface with just the fin visible! He hasn't got any reason too make shit up! He knows what he saw! And he knows enough about the ocean to know that what he saw were G W sharks!
@@waynekieft4952No reason for them not to be in waters around here. As he's seen them that many times it's probably a good place to conduct some scientific experiments to verify the fact that they are there.
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@@SHARKBYTES awe.
Very proud of our natural resources and the awesome people who get to preserve and interact with them!
Islander outdoors has a great channel that follows this as well.
Matt and I will be doing a collab soon - stay tuned!
Glad to have you back for season 6 Kristian, great video as always.
When you get the chance I would love to see a video on identifying sharks and rays. I enjoyed how you knew the two videos were basking sharks because of the shape of the dorsal fin, colour of the skin and the white around the mouth. I once had a shark take my catch, it showed us it's Caudal fin and we saw the colour, it would have been great to identify the type of shark that took our dinner!
Tough to do this for all sharks, but perhaps I could do it for the ones that are regularly confused with each other?
@@SHARKBYTES That sounds perfect to me, thank you.
On the one hand, they've been confirmed as far north as southern Alaska in the Pacific, which is pretty chilly even in the summer. On the other hand, they HAVE been confirmed. Both following in fish on the line and getting stranded. And Alaska has exponentially fewer people than southern England and far, far more coastline. So if they are in the UK on any regular basis, someone is likely to have seen one. Keep in mind that when a white decides to pay a visit, it may not be subtle at all. Given the sheer number of humans on the water around the UK, I think if there were a regular population of whites, there would be some very clear documentation of it just by statistical probability. And instead we get grainy pictures of what are almost certainly other species.
"" So if they are in the UK on any regular basis, someone is likely to have seen one.""
There are a number of convincing eye witness reports.
@@lyndoncmp5751, Anecdotes are nice , but theres no clear , conclusive evidence of White Sharks in English waters. No photos , and no video. If they were actually there, the odds are that there would be one or both.
Look what i said in my comment about sea turtles. They were thought to be rare or stray it turns out they visit regularly but mange to go unnoticed most of the time!
yup, they do not come here at all, theyve never been seen
@@shreddedguy679
Yes they have been.
The purple backlights are groovy!!💜💜
I like the purple too
Welcome back mate
As I mentioned in a comment that I left on one of Islander Outdoors' videos, I want to say that I think you people in the UK and Ireland are LUCKY that you have so few great whites in your waters! Sure, they look cool from a distance, but when you're sharing the water with animals that can and do bite people in half, it fundamentally ruins the fun of swimming, surfing and kayaking. I would happily go for a swim in Ireland or the UK, but you'll never catch me swimming on the Pacific coast of North America where I live! Once you've seen one of those monsters in real life, the ocean simply loses most of its appeal. A scarcity of white sharks is a BLESSING not a curse. Cheers! --N
Same here 😂🇿🇦🦈😬
Yep, I wouldn't swim there either. I went kyacking and was always wondering if there where any around me. A surfer was attacked in the bay next to where I was.
Hell, I live in the UK and respect the ocean enough to only look at it. I still ain’t going in.
I just seen a few videos of stories of packs of great white sharks hunting swimmers. I gotta say I will still never go into the ocean.
To be fair I’d rather kayak near a great white rather than a bull shark
We have a massive population of seals in the North Sea and I personally have stumbled upon a seal carcass with a semi circular bite out of it with teeth bites, it even made the papers.
I once saw a wasted up seal carcass that raised my eyebrows in the east of England. It's entirely possible that parts of it could have rotted away quicker than others, and then scavenged on by birds in that spot. But at the time I found it strange how much it looked like a large chunk was out of it.
We have plenty of basking sharks here in Eastbourne too, gentle giants. It’s more like the scary macoshark that would scare me more!
Welcome back hope you did not work too hard on your break
Plenty of porbeagle shark near me in the summer time, was mackerel fishing one evening off the rocks with a heavy century tip tornado old beach rod. Went through 4 mackerel trace's, lol they just kept picking off the mackerel hooking themselves and I decided to not do any more harm to them. The hooks will rust in a few days...no harm done hopefully
A 5.2 metre great white, one of the biggest ever recorded, was caught in a fishing net off Prince Edward Island, Canada in 1983. Their average sea temperatures are significantly lower than ours.
There is a much more recent report of a great white close to home. You can watch the video. A young Italian boy caught a shark with his father. They were towing it in, and a massive white decided to have it instead. The video is still available. It's called Great White spotted off Rimini. They have quite a sizeable Thresher shark, and the White just saws it in half.
Have you got a link for me Paul?
@SHARK BYTES ua-cam.com/video/GRqY95tfPik/v-deo.html here you go doc
That's quite an old video, but not unusual as large gws are well known in the med
That video was shot in the 1990s.and the med great whites are reasonably common.
@Garry Smith I know mate, I was just responding to the comment the doc made about the scarcity of white sightings in the region.
Basking sharks are cool enough for me - I’d love to see one! Someday I’ll get to the UK to shark-watch, perhaps.
Absolutely! Elusive little buggers down here though. Once they're sighted they're almost gone immediately
We also get mako sharks and bull sharks which live in warm and cold water and rivers
They are definitely there, but they are pretty rare out there. They are also up in Scotland but only in the few weeks the water temp is OK for them and only when the seals take then up there. It’s a natural cycle.
what do you mean about the water temp? too cold or too warm? nova scotia/newfoundland water temp is generally colder than any part of Scotland. they get some of the tail end of the gulf stream however it by passes nova scotia and newfie land...
yeah but nobody has ever seen a GW in uk waters
I witness a Great white shark in Minaun Cliffs Ireland in the 90s and we got the dorsal fin on Video it was a cloudy day and the ocean was choppy.
Awesome show bud, I was down your neck of the woods last weekend, didn't see anything!
it was low tide 😂 as I stumbled over rock for a swim,
Keep up the great work mate 👍
one other thing, ring boots in torbay and ask if they developed film in the early 80's, if they did the girl on the counter back then has a picture of a great white in the surf around 25 meters from the shore (torbay), her aunty was on the beach pointing at it when the shot was taken.
in the 90`s 1997 or 98 there were clips from fishermen who saw a great white 10-15 miles south of the UK coasts.
Yay! New season 😃
We’re back!
Halfway in, you fixed your wayward curl! 😢
I get it though-the humidity in the Southern US helps my curls make me look like a crazy person.
5:08 this shot looks cool as hell
there was a pic of one in the paper of the coast of exmouth about 15 years ago
They are in the Mediterranean Sea around Malta...
There is the video from a couple of kayakers off west scotland that looked to be a great white from 2012 which islander outdoors covered
You can see that video, and my thoughts on it - in this video :)
@SHARKBYTES ah my bad I must have missed that part 😅
I live in Jersey, Channel Islands, and I've worked on the lobster and crab boats on and off since the '90's. We've had Porbeagles cruise around the boat, and we've thrown them scad baitfish so they've come up close... they're way bigger than people expect and it wouldn't surprise me if they were mistaken for their more famous cousins. There's a really good video of some lads from neighbouring Guernsey doing the exact same kicking around somewhere.
We have offshore reefs literally everywhere, and lots of seals. We're also warmer again, especially close to the island since our 'Energy from Waste' incinerator started pumping out it's heat exchangers into the RAMSAR site to the South of the island! We now have a huge tuna population that wasn't here 8 years ago. You should come over and have a look around one day.
I'm in Vancouver Canada. My mother is from Guernsey, I've been there a few times. as a child. teen & adult. Nothing to do with sharks - you live in a beautiful part of the world, Rick. 😊
@@sherylbjerre9636 aw amazing! My wife has two aunts in Vancouver, too! I have yet to visit but I've heard it's lovely where you live, also. Sending my best wishes from your maternal home waters :)
@@rickjones641 apologies, didnt realize notifications to posts came via 'social & promos in my email box! Thank you for your best wishes from the Channel Islands! Two aunts in Vancouver?! wow, then I shall wish you & your wife 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🌲🌲🐻🍁 greetings from the Pacific Northwest Canada, namely British Columbia. Yes, it's a city immersed in nature, moderate climate, flowers & blooms typical of UK, unfortunately, worst forest fires this summer over much of the Province ( less Vancouver). So as not to hijack this site LOL, I believe we have the 6 gill sharks Hornby Island, & of course, home to Orcas whales. Cheers!
I found two teeth of a great white on separate occasions in Pembrokeshire west Wales. I know a lot of other people who has found them also so they must be here at least from time to time.
That's pretty cool
6:01 Well, knowing the British fish and chips consumption, I doubt there'd be enough left for the sharks.
When talking about the densities of seals, all those other places are significantly larger than Cornwall/South Wales.
100,000 seals in south Australia? Not dissimilar in terms of density to 5,000 in Cornwall. That's about the same area just around Sydney.
Following the smell of big game tuna the great white apex predators have moved into our seas now we have recovered some of the fish stocks just like the rare salmon shark
Came across a dead seal on the beach at Findhorn a few weeks back, one half closer to The Captain's Table and the other half further up the beach, guts hanging out and everything, my Husky kept trying to roll on it.
You should come visit east anglia,plenty of seals here and I’m sure I’ve read in the paper about a few being washed up with huge bite marks taken out of them x
Where are you getting your temperature ranges from? California and South Africa are on the colder side of water temps. !