Great White Shark Filmed 3 Meters From Divers in Sicily Strait, a Mediterranean First
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Updated · The Independent · Jun 8
Great White Shark Filmed 3 Meters From Divers in Sicily Strait, a Mediterranean First
3 articles · Updated · The Independent · Jun 8
Summary
Three meters from a shipwreck cleanup team, a great white shark was filmed underwater in the Strait of Sicily in what is believed to be the first such Mediterranean video.
Volunteer divers from Healthy Seas, Ghost Diving and SDSS had been removing abandoned fishing nets when the shark approached, circled back and then disappeared after bubbles startled it.
A few hundred great whites are thought to remain in the Mediterranean, with numbers declining because of illegal fishing and wider pressure on marine habitats.
An estimated 640,000 nets are lost or discarded at sea each year worldwide, and Healthy Seas used the World Oceans Day encounter to press governments and the fishing industry to curb ghost gear.