{"id":1660,"date":"2026-06-14T14:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T13:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.farmersforum.ie\/trends\/first-ever-footage-of-a-great-white-shark-filmed-on-the-mediterranean-seabed\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T14:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T13:25:08","slug":"first-ever-footage-of-a-great-white-shark-filmed-on-the-mediterranean-seabed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.farmersforum.ie\/trends\/first-ever-footage-of-a-great-white-shark-filmed-on-the-mediterranean-seabed\/","title":{"rendered":"First-Ever Footage of a Great White Shark Filmed on the Mediterranean Seabed"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong>While inspecting a sunken wreck off the coast of Sicily, divers were fortunate enough to film a creature as formidable as it is iconic: a great white shark.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Illustrious Resident<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>It is well established that these large marine predators, capable of growing up to six metres in length, roam the <strong>Mediterranean<\/strong>, but so far, the sporadic observations made in these temperate waters concerned individuals near the surface or were by-catches.<\/p>\n<section class=\"incontent-related\"><span class=\"incontent-related__title\">Lire aussi<\/span> <span class=\"incontent-related__desc\">Redoutable : le serpent \u00e0 tentacules transforme la strat\u00e9gie de survie de ses proies en pi\u00e8ge fatal<\/span><\/section>\n<p>These very first underwater images of <em>Carcharodon carcharias<\/em> were captured about forty metres beneath the surface of the busy Strait of Sicily. While removing \u201c<em>ghost nets<\/em>,\u201d which can prove deadly for numerous marine species (fishes, endangered turtles\u2026), Derk Remmers and his colleagues saw the silhouette of an adult shark emerge from the darkness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Statistically, you have far better odds of winning the lottery than crossing paths with an animal so emblematic during a dive<\/em>,\u201d the team explained in a statement. \u201c<em>Such encounters remind us how biodiverse the Mediterranean is, and how important it is to protect it from threats such as overfishing and abandoned gear<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"cssc-content-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"First-Ever Footage Of A Great White Shark Filmed Underwater In The Mediterranean Sea\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/RbvM6P-hWHo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Essential Operations<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This cleanup operation sits within a scientific collaboration intended in particular to refine the populations of threatened species in the region, in order to better direct conservation efforts.<\/p>\n<section class=\"incontent-related\"><span class=\"incontent-related__title\">Lire aussi<\/span> <span class=\"incontent-related__desc\">Dans les soci\u00e9t\u00e9s animales, le pouvoir ne descend pas toujours du plus fort vers les plus faibles<\/span><\/section>\n<p>\u201c<em>The majority of our knowledge about the Mediterranean great whites comes from observations of dead specimens accidentally caught during fishing operations<\/em>,\u201d notes Carlo Cattano, a researcher at the Sicily Marine Centre. \u201c<em>Such observations are extremely valuable for our understanding of the distribution, habits, and behavior of this critically endangered shark, greatly impacted by human activities<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wrecks, often functioning as artificial reefs that attract a wide array of rare marine species, make it more necessary than ever to clear the gear from them that could fatally entangle life.<\/p>\n<p>Last April, several basking sharks were observed off the Mediterranean coast.<\/p>\n<section class=\"incontent-related\"><span class=\"incontent-related__title\">Lire aussi<\/span> <span class=\"incontent-related__desc\">Les lampes de jardin perturbent les vers luisants au moment le plus fragile de leur vie<\/span><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[407,1039,1721,299,302,1722,301,300],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-filmed","tag-firstever","tag-footage","tag-great","tag-mediterranean","tag-seabed","tag-shark","tag-white","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmersforum.ie\/trends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmersforum.ie\/trends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmersforum.ie\/trends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmersforum.ie\/trends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmersforum.ie\/trends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmersforum.ie\/trends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1662,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmersforum.ie\/trends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions\/1662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmersforum.ie\/trends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmersforum.ie\/trends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmersforum.ie\/trends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmersforum.ie\/trends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}