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.

Diver captures rare footage of great white shark in the Mediterranean Sea – video

Footage captured by a diver shows a rare sighting of a great white shark in the Mediterranean Sea, spotted between Tunisia and Sicily. The sighting happened during a mission, organised by NGO Healthy Seas Foundation in partnership with Ghost Diving and The Society for Documentation of Submerged Sites, to remove abandoned fishing nets in the strait of Sicily. Healthy Seas, which removes rubbish from seas, said the video is believed to be the first underwater footage captured of an adult grea...

By Guardian Staff

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