Rare footage captured of Great White shark in Mediterranean Sea
A volunteer diver has described shaking as he filmed his encounter with an endangered Great White shark between Tunisia and Sicily.
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"The shark was pretty close to us [...] And in fact my fingers were trembling when I was trying to get the camera operating."
— Derk Remmers , Other
"We were all a bit shocked - and amazed."
— Derk Remmers , Other
"My fingers were trembling, that's for sure - it was a big animal and we didn't expect this at all."
— Derk Remmers , Other
"Observations like this are extremely valuable for improving our understanding of the distribution, habits, and behaviour of this critically endangered species."
— Dr Carlo Cattano , Academic
"They are made to kill fish and they still do that when they're not attached to the fishing boat anymore."
— Derk Remmers , Other
"I can only do so much - we are only a few people."
— Derk Remmers , Other
"Statistically, it is way more likely to win the lotto jackpot than to meet such an iconic animal underwater."
— Derk Remmers , Other
"An offshore underwater shark encounter in the Mediterranean is insane."
— Derk Remmers , Other
"Moments like this remind us how much life can still exist in offshore Mediterranean waters and how important it is to protect it from preventable threats like abandoned fishing gear or overfishing."
— Veronika Mikos , Executive
"Statistically, it is way more likely to win the lotto jackpot than to meet such an iconic animal underwater."
— Derk Remmers , Other
"What makes this encounter so powerful is not only the shark itself, but the context in which it happened."
— Veronika Mikos , Executive
"Most of our knowledge on the white sharks in the Mediterranean Sea comes from records of dead specimens caught by fishing operations."
— Dr Carlo Cattano , Academic
Key People
Derk Remmers is a volunteer diver who filmed a rare encounter with a Great White shark.
Dr Carlo Cattano is a researcher at the Sicily Marine Centre of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn.
Pascal van Erp is a member of the diving team involved in the shark sighting.
Veronika Mikos is the director of the Healthy Seas Foundation.
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A volunteer diver has described shaking as he filmed his encounter with an endangered Great White shark between Tunisia and Sicily.
A rare and brief encounter with a Great White Shark was filmed underwater in the Mediterranean Sea, marking the first such footage in the region.
Volunteer divers captured the first underwater footage of an adult great white shark in the Mediterranean Sea while retrieving abandoned fishing nets from a shipwreck in the Strait of Sicily.
A great white shark was spotted underwater in the Mediterranean Sea for the first time, captured by diver Derek Remmers during a mission to recover abandoned fishing nets in the Strait of Sicily.
Divers captured what is believed to be the first underwater footage of a great white shark in the Mediterranean Sea, filmed off the Strait of Sicily by Derk Remmers during a mission to remove abandoned fishing nets.
Divers captured the first underwater footage of an adult great white shark in the Mediterranean Sea during a mission to remove abandoned fishing nets in the Strait of Sicily.
Divers filmed a four-metre-long great white shark in the Strait of Sicily while clearing abandoned fishing nets from a shipwreck, marking the first time the predator has been filmed underwater in the Mediterranean Sea.
Divers removing abandoned fishing nets from the central Mediterranean captured what they believe is the first-ever underwater footage of an adult great white shark in the region.
Footage captured by a diver shows a rare sighting of a great white shark in the Mediterranean Sea, spotted between Tunisia and Sicily during a mission to remove abandoned fishing nets.
Divers removing abandoned fishing nets from the central Mediterranean captured what they believe is the first-ever underwater footage of an adult great white shark in the region.
Divers captured what is believed to be the first underwater footage of a great white shark in the Mediterranean Sea during a ghost net removal mission organized by the Healthy Seas Foundation.
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