YO YOU GUYS HAVE TO SEE THIS BECAUSE SOMEONE JUST CAPTURED THE MOST STUNNING FOOTAGE I'VE EVER SEEN — A GREAT WHITE SHARK IN THE MEDITERRANEAN! You might think Great Whites are a Pacific/Atlantic thing, but this adult male was filmed off the Tunisian coast near Sicily and it is absolutely incredible. The diver filming described the moment as "pretty special" and you can literally hear his fingers shaking in the audio because he knows how rare this encounter really is. The visual contrast between these massive fins and the Mediterranean water is wild — I watched it three times just to take it all in.
But there's a deeper story here that makes this footage even more important, and it made me angry good. While getting the shots divers also documented ghost fishing nets littering the sea floor everywhere they went - these are abandoned nylon nets from commercial fisheries that keep trapping marine life for decades after being dumped. Great Whites in European waters are already rare due to decades of overfishing, so every sighting like this should be a call to action for real Marine Protected Areas around Sicily and Tunisia instead of just "good luck" sentiments. We can't wait until the species is gone before we stop treating these areas as dumping grounds for fishing gear.
Honestly watching this footage makes me feel both small and powerful in ways that are hard to describe, which is why I love sharing it with you guys on here. The Mediterranean holds so much more than tourism and shipping lanes — it has apex predators that have survived for millions of years despite what we've done to the ocean. We need better management now because moments like this shouldn't be rare events. If you haven't seen the BBC video yet, go watch it right now - it will genuinely change your week.
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cd6p6zqzj6do?at_medium=RSS
But there's a deeper story here that makes this footage even more important, and it made me angry good. While getting the shots divers also documented ghost fishing nets littering the sea floor everywhere they went - these are abandoned nylon nets from commercial fisheries that keep trapping marine life for decades after being dumped. Great Whites in European waters are already rare due to decades of overfishing, so every sighting like this should be a call to action for real Marine Protected Areas around Sicily and Tunisia instead of just "good luck" sentiments. We can't wait until the species is gone before we stop treating these areas as dumping grounds for fishing gear.
Honestly watching this footage makes me feel both small and powerful in ways that are hard to describe, which is why I love sharing it with you guys on here. The Mediterranean holds so much more than tourism and shipping lanes — it has apex predators that have survived for millions of years despite what we've done to the ocean. We need better management now because moments like this shouldn't be rare events. If you haven't seen the BBC video yet, go watch it right now - it will genuinely change your week.
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cd6p6zqzj6do?at_medium=RSS