Very true. Also their metabolism keeps them a few degrees higher than that of the surrounding waters so lets hope that we can have a British white shark in my life time. If not South Africa here I come.
Not sure about the first, but the second looks like a basking shark. There have been 7 or so sightings around Britain in the last 50 odd years that probably were great whites but it's believed that their numbers are too few to have them visit regularly. The food is here and they can tolerate varying temperatures so fingers crossed.
@typhoonda2 true say that and the walter tempture is very comfortable considering they have been seen in Alsaka,Mass Cananda i really hope to.2nd of all the Med is just round the corner so why not.
there are 46 different kinds of shark (including the white shark) in the med so it doesn't seem unlikely that one or two of them would wonder into the english channel...
The shark on the second video is definitely a porbeagle, which backfin has a distinctive roundish tip. Witnessed a similar sight myself last weekend:o)
The first shark is most likely also a porbeagle, who are known for this breaching stunt of their closest relatives, the Great White off the coast of South Africa.
i believe the breaching shark is either a mako or porbeagle,makos are rare but are found here in the summer months,if i remember it was in amongst some dolphins
The jumping shark - it has the coloration of a GWS, but is it a shark at all? The video is of such a bad quality that I can't even tell if it's a shark or a dolphin.
The other one looks like a basking shark, it even has the usual brownish colour.
@thermaldog Hey. It could well be a mako from the first clip. That or a Porbeagle.. They both have the ability to breach the water, the Porbeagle is a cousin of the Great White. The second clip is clearly a Basking shark though as labelled :)
most great whites in brittain are in the irish sea between northern ireland and scotland, because thats where the seals are, but they've been spotted in all cold and temperate seas and are probably finding that they are not targeted by cunts like they are around say japan!
There have been genuine great white sightings off of the coast of Cornwall and Plymouth(where i live) but yes most sightings are of Basking sharks who are common here as well as makus and porbeagles.
There have been genuine great white sightings off of the coast of Cornwall and Plymouth(where i live) but yes most sightings are of Basking sharks who are common here as well as makus and porbeagals.
The first clip does not have enough proof that it is a great white shark. The top of it's belly and head is white. But from a loooong distance away you can't tell how big it is. It easily could have just been a common white shark to be honest :)
The one jumping is a Porbeagle common in our waters,it's seems people think the great whites are the only sharks that breach which is not true.The big fin was a Basking shark (it's too round to be a great white fin).This post is missing the video took by the diver at a northsea oil rig,ok it turned out to be a Porbeagle as well but it shows how similer the the Porbeagle and the great white look.
4 the people saying its a basking shark, a basking shark would be much bigger from fin to fin nd as u can see its not that big my thought is the great white must have swam in to english water 2 find food
Porbeagles are very vicious looking. However, they are timid and would usually swim away if any close contact with humans was possible. However, Mako sharks which we also get in our waters, are very aggressive and somewhat unpredictable. Very fast swimmers also!
its probs possible there have been whites in the channel and mouth of the channel to atlantic,but seeing as there are no proven sightings there cant be a large number of them or a frequent amount at any time
How do you know it was a white shark? I believe you as the lizard is the sort of place they would hunt and I think they are in our waters. I saw a big thresher off porthcurno 2 years ago.
The video of just the fin is a Basking shark, the one jumping is a Porbeagle shark. Porbeagles are closely related to the Great White and are endangered.
@Otanashi1 No not really. They are known to be timid and would usually swim away at the prospect of contact with a human. However, Mako sharks are very dangerous and aggressive. They too are common in British waters, especially Cornwall.
The footage was in cornwall from what i heard but there wasn't as much as every one made out, it was just the cornish people getting publicity to help tourism. Fair play lmao but i'd go perranporth with or without great white sightings, cornwalls the best place ever :D
Could also be a porbeagle. The porbeagle is dark blue-grey on top and white underneath, with a conical snout. The porbeagle's maximum recorded size is 3.7 m (12 ft), and large specimens can weigh 160 to 250 kg (350 to 550 lb).
ha ha basking shark iv seen them loads of times off the west coat of Ireland you can tell straight away by the fin is rounded not coming to a point like a great whites..
what a ton of toss ive surfed there for years and only been shitted up once when the local seal came between me and my bro whilst surfing lol... aside from that a basking shark has swan underneath me....
def a basking shark, seen them while out kiteboarding, and looks more like a dolphin jumping out of the water. tourists always start a spate of shark sightings every summer!!!
I'm gla someone actually gives analysis of this stuff rather than just posting the vid. I guess there was that incident in 1916 in US with the shark, and the waters are what would seem OK temperatures around here and with the climate and stuff changing, who knows
bloody hell i'm never going on holiday their ever again!! sometimes i go to devon and that rite near cornwall!!! this man sd they get a lot of basking sharks disturbing the surfers!!!
I go there every year as well, and with some local knowledge and knowledge of sharks, I can safely say you'll be absolutely fine here!
Basking sharks are absolutely harmless and all they'll do at most, if they're even in that close, is bump into people accidently. They won't bite or get aggressive. The most worrying shark of that area is the Shortfin Mako shark. Which can be very aggressive. Also known to that area, is the Porbeagle, a cousin of the great white, but these are faily harmless.
Theres always a good chance of a white shark being in British waters (that also includes the Irish atlantic coast). We getr many warmer water species around our coastlines, tuna, sunfish, oarfish etc. There whites in the Med too. Our main sharks, not including dogfish/smoothhounds etc.. are blue sharks, short fin mako, porbeagle, basking and threshers.
The ones that appeared in newspapers were basking and porbeagle.
The closest a great white has ever been caught was by a french trawler 200 miles of landsend in the 1970's... ok so we may be over fishing and depleating the ocean, but thats not a great deal of ocean in the scheme of things?!? i live in falmouth and i've seen 3m threshers caught, they have a white under belly similar to a great white, but pretty rare.
well thats enuff evidense to put me of going in the sea this summer lol i will miss my surf bord:( lol nah i go in any way ive lived in newquay for 5 yrs and ive never herd real hard core evidense tht proved sharks are in are bloody cold waters lol
god damn! just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water! we gotta close the beaches!! I know what a great white shark looks like cause I've seen one up close and I don't intend to go through that hell again!!
i live in cornwall we have had great whites before it was once like jaws we were told 2 all get out the water!!!!! but im prettuy sure thats a basking shark
oh yeh by the way we have have plenty of blue, mako and basking sharks down here so if people think they have seen a great white in cornwall its most likely one of those three.
it was taken in south africa and the guy who recorded it said it was in cornwall for a joke but it went a bit to far and yes it is a great white but not in cornwall.
I feel so bad for the people of Cornwall as they are very kind people, dumb as fuck, but kind. I'm sure a few of them are going to get swallowed up. terrorists, now sharks, what next? Killer bees.
The shark seen up closer is a basking shark. The shark seen from far away...i think it is a mako shark. They look pretty much the same as great whites.
But ime not saying there arnt great whites out there. I think one day there will be.
deathstar lol to cold??? they are spotted in proper freezing waters off northern canada and the like, they can travel 10,000 miles a year and the nearest confirmed sighting is well under a hundred miles away off of france and loads off northern spain, the vids not a great white but with 40% of the worlds grey seal population, you better believe there out there! lol
there are many exotic fish off the coast of cornwall, most probably great white sharks and killer whales, which have been seen close up by my fisherman friend... if the food is available then the prey wil chase it in :) more and more smaller exotic fish are being found every year!! thers no reason why fish like great white sharks wouldnt be off the shore of cornwall.. i have spent many days fishing off the coast of falmouth and the ammount of fish out there is staggering!
Rofl this was the funniest things ever I live in St.Ives where this was seen and the Sun came down to porthmeor beach handing out frizbeez and t-shirts with a great white printed on them eating a girl with a bodyboard and also big blow up sharks and then some guy who works for the sun came up to me and went oh yeah the guy who made up the story is just up there. It was very funny and shouldn't be taken seriously it's just a basking shark.
Probably a Porbeagle, too many cases of mistaken Great White identification attributed to this species of shark for it not to be. Bah, even if it were a Great White it's not bleeding Jaws.
I havent read the other comments, so i dont know if this has already been said. But there is no great white in cornwall. The guy admitted to filming it whilst in south africa on holiday, then claimed it was Cornwall to make some extra dosh.
there could be a great white in cornwall but if there is it will be very far out to sea . But most so called (great white sightings) are actually basking sharks or mako,s
does nobody else think the thing breaching looks like a minke whale? the trajectory and twist look right, and at that range you can't see fins enough to be clear if its a shark or cetacean....
Definetily portbeagle, maybe a mako, but I dont think makos come into english waters, and besides mako sightings are pretty rare, i think. But pottbeagle, but hey the possiblilties of a wjite shark in english waters is possible, with climate change we could it time be seeing white sharks, scary.
Im a Marine Environmental Studies student at Bangor University (well known oceanographic department there), doing a paper on this subject at the moment. More a case of "Why ARENT they here?" than anything else. Not sure on the first bit of footage, definately could be a Mako/Porbeagle, possibility for a White shark is there but...hm, for some reason, I dont think it is.
share my views! i wana know why they are not here coz our waters ( might not believe it ) or warm enough for them and we have their favourite food swimming round too.
Definitely a possibility. I would have liked to have seen clearer, closer footage, to see if the tail fin was vertical or horizontal. As that would have been a huge giveaway
I totally agree with you mate. They are found in france which boarders this country. They are bound to have entered our waters at some point. This however, WAS NOT a great white
What and there isnt a beast of bodmin as well. And King Auther didnt exist. And Cornwall isnt slowly moving away from Devon and becoming an Island. Stop stop I dont want to hear anymore.
Well if we can get a whale in the themes, A dead sperm whale in newcastle i'd say it is theoretically possible there are great whites in cornwall but everyone knows basking sharks live of the english coast maybe great whites do aswell.
How do you know that great whites arent just getting really clever and grinding down there fins on coral to make themselves look like basking sharks????
I've just come back from cornwall after a week of pretty much non-stop bodyboarding, and seen nothing in the water, didn't even see one jellyfish, it really isn't a risk, and if you see a sahrk, it is very rare and just practice caution.
this shark inmmy opinion is a mako shark but there is defo some possibility of it being a porbeagle shark but have you seen the latest pics of the shark sighting it has so much resemblence of a great white but my opinion its a mako shark
my opinion is there is no doubt the first shark is a baskin shark the fin and its tail are exact to that of a baskin shark now as for the second shark its more likley to be a porbeagle shark a cousin of the great white google it ive studyed sharks for 11 years so there you have it take care people
It may be a porbeagle, which are recognised by a white patch at the revrse bottom side of the dorsal fin, and sometimes have a white area on their pectoal fins :) Porbeagles can breach so you may be right, it may even be a mako as they can also breach the water and are found in our seas, porbeagles are usually timid creatures though.
Yeah totally. You can tell by the videos that this is not a white shark, if these people on here that post saying it is definitely a great white knew anything about sharks, then they would clearly know that it isn't =)
It only looks more pointed because of the angle its at, you people can believe it if you want to, but when you see the fin sideways on you can tell it is not that of a great white, but don't let me stop you believing these lies =]
it could very well b a great white not all great whites have pointed fins i looked up some pics and went 2 the a aquarium recently and a couple at the aquarium had more rounded fins than that
Its A Great White, Basking Sharks Are Huge, Watch The Vid On The Side Called 'Britains First Killer?' And Watch TheFin Carefully, It Changes And Looks Like A Great White Sharks Fin.
0:25 Basking Shark with it's distinctive dorsal fin.
UFOIST 3 weeks ago
Very true. Also their metabolism keeps them a few degrees higher than that of the surrounding waters so lets hope that we can have a British white shark in my life time. If not South Africa here I come.
typhoonda2 1 month ago
Not sure about the first, but the second looks like a basking shark. There have been 7 or so sightings around Britain in the last 50 odd years that probably were great whites but it's believed that their numbers are too few to have them visit regularly. The food is here and they can tolerate varying temperatures so fingers crossed.
typhoonda2 1 month ago
@typhoonda2 true say that and the walter tempture is very comfortable considering they have been seen in Alsaka,Mass Cananda i really hope to.2nd of all the Med is just round the corner so why not.
viper174471 1 month ago
its obviously a weaver fish??!!!!
hoffman4506 1 month ago
whatever shark it is, as soon as I saw that fin id be out of the water!
Englishsea24 2 months ago
there are 46 different kinds of shark (including the white shark) in the med so it doesn't seem unlikely that one or two of them would wonder into the english channel...
caseymadness 4 months ago
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caseymadness 4 months ago
maybe its a penguin
England201013 4 months ago
The shark on the second video is definitely a porbeagle, which backfin has a distinctive roundish tip. Witnessed a similar sight myself last weekend:o)
The first shark is most likely also a porbeagle, who are known for this breaching stunt of their closest relatives, the Great White off the coast of South Africa.
Ribbenhavn 5 months ago
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Ribbenhavn 5 months ago
makos do not have fins
2kJac10 5 months ago
@2kJac10 You aren't serious?
youriding16 5 months ago
@2kJac10 Only when the japs have finished with them
loseriffic123 3 months ago
It's a baskin shark :P
MrXctus 5 months ago
i believe the breaching shark is either a mako or porbeagle,makos are rare but are found here in the summer months,if i remember it was in amongst some dolphins
volitans100 7 months ago
The jumping shark - it has the coloration of a GWS, but is it a shark at all? The video is of such a bad quality that I can't even tell if it's a shark or a dolphin.
The other one looks like a basking shark, it even has the usual brownish colour.
mroldnewbie 8 months ago
couldnt it be a mako? they are similar to great whites and they have been confirmed in cornish waters i think..
thermaldog 9 months ago
@thermaldog Hey. It could well be a mako from the first clip. That or a Porbeagle.. They both have the ability to breach the water, the Porbeagle is a cousin of the Great White. The second clip is clearly a Basking shark though as labelled :)
youriding16 8 months ago
most great whites in brittain are in the irish sea between northern ireland and scotland, because thats where the seals are, but they've been spotted in all cold and temperate seas and are probably finding that they are not targeted by cunts like they are around say japan!
SAVAGEGREENMACHINE 11 months ago
it is possible for a great white shark to thrive off the british coast as we have the right temperature, food and conditions for them
windwave666 11 months ago
There have been genuine great white sightings off of the coast of Cornwall and Plymouth(where i live) but yes most sightings are of Basking sharks who are common here as well as makus and porbeagles.
theshow2k8 1 year ago
There have been genuine great white sightings off of the coast of Cornwall and Plymouth(where i live) but yes most sightings are of Basking sharks who are common here as well as makus and porbeagals.
theshow2k8 1 year ago
I live in cornwall there are no great white's but there was a rumour a year ago but found out it was just a basking or a porbegal or something
Charlimy 1 year ago
The first clip does not have enough proof that it is a great white shark. The top of it's belly and head is white. But from a loooong distance away you can't tell how big it is. It easily could have just been a common white shark to be honest :)
tuyo12 1 year ago
@tuyo12 you dont have a clue do you
u20gilpinj 1 year ago
this wasnt real , yes this was a great white shark but the picture was took in australiar. not cornwall
coventry1997 1 year ago
doubtful
applefry869 1 year ago
could so easily have been filmed ANYWHERE... South Africa, Argentina...etc.
samueldavidadams 1 year ago
its just a big fish :)
laingy089 1 year ago
The one jumping is a Porbeagle common in our waters,it's seems people think the great whites are the only sharks that breach which is not true.The big fin was a Basking shark (it's too round to be a great white fin).This post is missing the video took by the diver at a northsea oil rig,ok it turned out to be a Porbeagle as well but it shows how similer the the Porbeagle and the great white look.
smokey66669 1 year ago
4 the people saying its a basking shark, a basking shark would be much bigger from fin to fin nd as u can see its not that big my thought is the great white must have swam in to english water 2 find food
taz707 1 year ago
@taz707
Guess what though? it IS a basking shark!
theshow2k8 1 year ago
@theshow2k8 Just as I've said all along!
youriding16 1 year ago
Porbeagles are very vicious looking. However, they are timid and would usually swim away if any close contact with humans was possible. However, Mako sharks which we also get in our waters, are very aggressive and somewhat unpredictable. Very fast swimmers also!
youriding16 2 years ago
its probs possible there have been whites in the channel and mouth of the channel to atlantic,but seeing as there are no proven sightings there cant be a large number of them or a frequent amount at any time
fusilier45 2 years ago
Most likely a Porbeagle as they are cousins of the Great White. The 2nd video is without a doubt a harmless Basking Shark.
youriding16 2 years ago
i have seen a great white in cornwall. off the coast of Porth curno where basking sharks are also found.
madmania08 2 years ago
How do you know it was a white shark? I believe you as the lizard is the sort of place they would hunt and I think they are in our waters. I saw a big thresher off porthcurno 2 years ago.
bountyhunter1974 2 years ago
idiots.
y0mrelm0 2 years ago
The video of just the fin is a Basking shark, the one jumping is a Porbeagle shark. Porbeagles are closely related to the Great White and are endangered.
WolfJuiceProductions 2 years ago
@WolfJuiceProductions My thoughts exactly.
youriding16 2 years ago
@WolfJuiceProductions are Porbeagle sharks deadly?
Otanashi1 1 year ago
@Otanashi1 No not really. They are known to be timid and would usually swim away at the prospect of contact with a human. However, Mako sharks are very dangerous and aggressive. They too are common in British waters, especially Cornwall.
youriding16 8 months ago
love shark fin soup me
birniea 2 years ago
theres a good few basking sharks out there its well good but really scary at 9 at night on a boat
BoardingTom 2 years ago
It is in reality a "Brommie" live bait drifted out via "Kon Tiki" longline !
Buggerlugz000 2 years ago
turns out this was actually filmed abroad!! it wasn't in cornwall, theres plenty o sharks about though, off hartland theres porbeagles n stuff.
willberridge 2 years ago
The footage was in cornwall from what i heard but there wasn't as much as every one made out, it was just the cornish people getting publicity to help tourism. Fair play lmao but i'd go perranporth with or without great white sightings, cornwalls the best place ever :D
megalomike113 2 years ago
love perranporth!!
sk8rlid 2 years ago
lol i just got back like 5 minutes ago and wanna go back again, its so much more fun than wolverhampton
megalomike113 2 years ago
I was refering to the breaching shark, obviously not the basking shark.
fannyrat 2 years ago
Could also be a porbeagle. The porbeagle is dark blue-grey on top and white underneath, with a conical snout. The porbeagle's maximum recorded size is 3.7 m (12 ft), and large specimens can weigh 160 to 250 kg (350 to 550 lb).
fannyrat 2 years ago
ha ha basking shark iv seen them loads of times off the west coat of Ireland you can tell straight away by the fin is rounded not coming to a point like a great whites..
irishkerry 2 years ago
what a ton of toss ive surfed there for years and only been shitted up once when the local seal came between me and my bro whilst surfing lol... aside from that a basking shark has swan underneath me....
eduardouk 2 years ago
calm down people,ive been studying wildlife for years and have come to the conclusion that it is a camel
ellisqpr86 2 years ago
hahaha nice comment =]
vgyt3 2 years ago
Hmmm something seems rather fishy if you ask me
PlaneTrainAmbulance 2 years ago
The last shark, could be a Thresher shark. Thresher sharks also live in the seas around Great-Brittain.
Guido167 2 years ago
or a mako, or a blue
futhyones 2 years ago
def a basking shark, seen them while out kiteboarding, and looks more like a dolphin jumping out of the water. tourists always start a spate of shark sightings every summer!!!
kiter34 2 years ago
I'm gla someone actually gives analysis of this stuff rather than just posting the vid. I guess there was that incident in 1916 in US with the shark, and the waters are what would seem OK temperatures around here and with the climate and stuff changing, who knows
Alienerd 2 years ago
bloody hell i'm never going on holiday their ever again!! sometimes i go to devon and that rite near cornwall!!! this man sd they get a lot of basking sharks disturbing the surfers!!!
rokgirl86 2 years ago
I go there every year as well, and with some local knowledge and knowledge of sharks, I can safely say you'll be absolutely fine here!
Basking sharks are absolutely harmless and all they'll do at most, if they're even in that close, is bump into people accidently. They won't bite or get aggressive. The most worrying shark of that area is the Shortfin Mako shark. Which can be very aggressive. Also known to that area, is the Porbeagle, a cousin of the great white, but these are faily harmless.
youriding16 2 years ago
thanx 4 lettin me know ur rate good at shark biografy
rokgirl86 2 years ago
or threshers which can kill
futhyones 2 years ago
Theres always a good chance of a white shark being in British waters (that also includes the Irish atlantic coast). We getr many warmer water species around our coastlines, tuna, sunfish, oarfish etc. There whites in the Med too. Our main sharks, not including dogfish/smoothhounds etc.. are blue sharks, short fin mako, porbeagle, basking and threshers.
The ones that appeared in newspapers were basking and porbeagle.
oldthrashhead 2 years ago
so people dont actually know if it was a great white then?
rowley1112 2 years ago
It was never actually proven. I personally don't think it was, but then that's my opinion from the footage i've seen.
Great white's are out there everywhere, who knows :)
youriding16 2 years ago
Was This The Saint Ives Shark Of 2007?
xxejbxx 2 years ago
Sure was. Well the supposed great white anyway.
But yes, Saint Ives was where they said they seen it :)
youriding16 2 years ago
The closest a great white has ever been caught was by a french trawler 200 miles of landsend in the 1970's... ok so we may be over fishing and depleating the ocean, but thats not a great deal of ocean in the scheme of things?!? i live in falmouth and i've seen 3m threshers caught, they have a white under belly similar to a great white, but pretty rare.
trezcool 2 years ago
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trezcool 2 years ago
well thats enuff evidense to put me of going in the sea this summer lol i will miss my surf bord:( lol nah i go in any way ive lived in newquay for 5 yrs and ive never herd real hard core evidense tht proved sharks are in are bloody cold waters lol
LilFishyProductions 2 years ago
"You've still got one helluva fish out there...with a bite radius this big..."!
TK42138 3 years ago
The person who filmed it said that it wasn't really in Cornwall, but I bet it was and he just didn't like all the attention!
Eleanor2994 3 years ago
omg dont luagh about dat stuff my nan had her arm bitten off by a great white in lelant!!
nathangyt 3 years ago
god damn! just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water! we gotta close the beaches!! I know what a great white shark looks like cause I've seen one up close and I don't intend to go through that hell again!!
702858 3 years ago
zoom it in man see it for yourself
united2008forever 3 years ago
if the fins anything to go by its a basking shark
united2008forever 3 years ago
blooby blopasd
digitalpunk006 3 years ago
yer theres a loada porbeagles round cornwall n devon too, i know someone who fishes for em out on hartland
willberridge 3 years ago
i live in cornwall we have had great whites before it was once like jaws we were told 2 all get out the water!!!!! but im prettuy sure thats a basking shark
xxashleytisdalerox 3 years ago
oh yeh by the way we have have plenty of blue, mako and basking sharks down here so if people think they have seen a great white in cornwall its most likely one of those three.
freshjive818 3 years ago
it was taken in south africa and the guy who recorded it said it was in cornwall for a joke but it went a bit to far and yes it is a great white but not in cornwall.
freshjive818 3 years ago
its more of a baskin shark than a great white. i saw them wen i was flyin to the isle's of scilly. there were quiet a few
squeakyjess14 3 years ago
The dorsal is too close to the head for an adult basking.Considering the movement in the water I'd hazard a guess it was an infant.
tulipcus1776 3 years ago
i was in cornwall on holiday when this all happened lol
lewisfrost123 3 years ago
You are right, the dorsal fin is too rounded, but it is to close to the head to be a basking shark (i think).
But i do think that you are right with the colours of the great white, and the twisting of the body. I do think we have/had a Cornish Jaws.
aupane 3 years ago
its a baskin shark for godamn sake
hiweb999 3 years ago
That's a porgie
mammutly 3 years ago
Portbeagle, fin way to curvy
BrettFUKD 3 years ago
surfed most beaches, reefs and coves around cornwall for over 20 years and never seen a shark let alone a great white... pure bullshit
drygulched101 3 years ago
i saw a great white shark in the canal the other day! it was awesome lol!
rossrfc4eva1 3 years ago
were was that to it wasent cornwall cz iv never seen one and i dont think i ever will iv seen a seal dats it but no sharks
MrChipNorman 3 years ago
I feel so bad for the people of Cornwall as they are very kind people, dumb as fuck, but kind. I'm sure a few of them are going to get swallowed up. terrorists, now sharks, what next? Killer bees.
dutzy009 3 years ago
So true ^^
PerrenEcho 3 years ago
i love the way people think of a great white and instinctively call it jaws! Watch out people this great white will kill all! run, RUN!
greggyprocker 3 years ago
The shark seen up closer is a basking shark. The shark seen from far away...i think it is a mako shark. They look pretty much the same as great whites.
But ime not saying there arnt great whites out there. I think one day there will be.
tier2k8 3 years ago
theres no jaws in cornwall u fools :L
moxom69 3 years ago
i live there too deathstar321 and do alot of diving! im certain they are out there... the vid is of a basking shark doe
stoneislandboi1 3 years ago
actually sorry guys, just to go back on my last comment, in this vid, i think its a basking shark
georgeIZ 3 years ago
it is possible that a great white can survive somwhere like cornwall, plenty of food, i believe this anyway
georgeIZ 3 years ago
bullshit :p its too cold down here (OMG I LIVE THERE?!) and its probobly a sunfish
deathstar321 3 years ago
deathstar lol to cold??? they are spotted in proper freezing waters off northern canada and the like, they can travel 10,000 miles a year and the nearest confirmed sighting is well under a hundred miles away off of france and loads off northern spain, the vids not a great white but with 40% of the worlds grey seal population, you better believe there out there! lol
brooketherington 3 years ago
there are many exotic fish off the coast of cornwall, most probably great white sharks and killer whales, which have been seen close up by my fisherman friend... if the food is available then the prey wil chase it in :) more and more smaller exotic fish are being found every year!! thers no reason why fish like great white sharks wouldnt be off the shore of cornwall.. i have spent many days fishing off the coast of falmouth and the ammount of fish out there is staggering!
stoneislandboi1 3 years ago
Rofl this was the funniest things ever I live in St.Ives where this was seen and the Sun came down to porthmeor beach handing out frizbeez and t-shirts with a great white printed on them eating a girl with a bodyboard and also big blow up sharks and then some guy who works for the sun came up to me and went oh yeah the guy who made up the story is just up there. It was very funny and shouldn't be taken seriously it's just a basking shark.
craig57street 3 years ago
oh great im off to cornwall tonight * bites nails*
lolicnessy 3 years ago
Don't know what to think of that fellows footage from the speedboat though. Any further news on that?
thegirl44 3 years ago
Probably a Porbeagle, too many cases of mistaken Great White identification attributed to this species of shark for it not to be. Bah, even if it were a Great White it's not bleeding Jaws.
thegirl44 3 years ago
I havent read the other comments, so i dont know if this has already been said. But there is no great white in cornwall. The guy admitted to filming it whilst in south africa on holiday, then claimed it was Cornwall to make some extra dosh.
callumisgod 3 years ago
there was no shak, it was just the sun newspaper trying to make money lol
hahaha755 3 years ago
there could be a great white in cornwall but if there is it will be very far out to sea . But most so called (great white sightings) are actually basking sharks or mako,s
ankio0789fgtyh 3 years ago
yeah it is to round for a great white but there could be more sightings soon as the temp is great and there alot of seal
Jarunescape 3 years ago
yeah ive always wondered why we dont get great whites off the british coast, its pretty ideal conditions i would have thought. anyone know?
J3thro100 3 years ago
does nobody else think the thing breaching looks like a minke whale? the trajectory and twist look right, and at that range you can't see fins enough to be clear if its a shark or cetacean....
olilaz86 3 years ago
the "great white" that's jumping out of the water looks like a small fish :)
klauwn17 3 years ago
Definetily portbeagle, maybe a mako, but I dont think makos come into english waters, and besides mako sightings are pretty rare, i think. But pottbeagle, but hey the possiblilties of a wjite shark in english waters is possible, with climate change we could it time be seeing white sharks, scary.
MrRplsykes 3 years ago
Im a Marine Environmental Studies student at Bangor University (well known oceanographic department there), doing a paper on this subject at the moment. More a case of "Why ARENT they here?" than anything else. Not sure on the first bit of footage, definately could be a Mako/Porbeagle, possibility for a White shark is there but...hm, for some reason, I dont think it is.
GlennQuagmire247 3 years ago
share my views! i wana know why they are not here coz our waters ( might not believe it ) or warm enough for them and we have their favourite food swimming round too.
19Sadler 3 years ago
Um.. I think porbeagle sharks breach and jump fairly often, and share the great white's colour pattern as well.
caluecke507 3 years ago
ive been to padstow on that speedboat . Id say thats definetly a mako
ankio0789fgtyh 3 years ago
ahh the sun sign
Fatboylt2 4 years ago
This was anywhere from 1/08/07 to 10/08/07
Hope this has helped
youriding16 4 years ago
so funny that it was found out to be a fake lol
OneTeaExtraOoo 4 years ago
ive caught bigger fukin roach cmon girls id of bare handed the fooker gilled er out i tell yee....put er on me mantle peice lad..
g56y56u 4 years ago
overgrown friggin murgy
benolly22 4 years ago
perhaps the breaching creature could be a porpoise
halfpennyroh04 4 years ago
Definitely a possibility. I would have liked to have seen clearer, closer footage, to see if the tail fin was vertical or horizontal. As that would have been a huge giveaway
youriding16 4 years ago
it is a basking shark but great whites have always been there.
ace2991 4 years ago
I totally agree with you mate. They are found in france which boarders this country. They are bound to have entered our waters at some point. This however, WAS NOT a great white
youriding16 4 years ago
Its a great white for sure.
biggestsharkever 4 years ago
No it isn't!
youriding16 4 years ago
For sure cornwall is renowned for great whites.
biggestsharkever 4 years ago
No it isn't you idiot.
Cornwall is renowned for Mako sharks and Porbeagle's.
there has never been a definite sighting of a Great White in cornwall to date.
You fool! haha
youriding16 4 years ago
What and there isnt a beast of bodmin as well. And King Auther didnt exist. And Cornwall isnt slowly moving away from Devon and becoming an Island. Stop stop I dont want to hear anymore.
biggestsharkever 4 years ago
mako sharks? wtf you on about. cornmaall only has basking sharks and blue sharks. mako sharks are exotic.
OneTeaExtraOoo 4 years ago
You're totally wrong, actually.
Mako sharks are quite common to cornish water, look it up wiseguy, cuz you clearly don't know what you're talking about.
youriding16 4 years ago
lmao your a dumbass. i think id know. mako sharks do not swim in british waters.
OneTeaExtraOoo 4 years ago
even if they did. it would be very rare. and not natural habitat.
OneTeaExtraOoo 4 years ago
youriding16 your are totaly rite. we have lots of sharks in cornwall
fishermenbrax2008 4 years ago
Thanks mate
I've liked sharks for a while and makos are very common to cornwall as are porbeagles
Thanks for backing me up lol :-)
youriding16 4 years ago
every summer we have great white shark sitings!its exciting watching the news isnt it! btw do u think its gr8 wite? i think its mako or porbelge
boberik12 3 years ago
Yep. Mako or Porbeagle for me too! If you look back on the comments you'll see that's what i've said all along :-)
youriding16 3 years ago
id have look at whoolahoopa in one of the vids there is an infant great white shark
Jarunescape 3 years ago
it was definitly not renowned for great whites otherwise the apparent sighting of one would'nt have bin such a big deal
indistructablesoul 4 years ago
This is most definately a basking shark, but the new video thats just been released is definately a great white
DnJ9195 4 years ago
hahaha that is a basking shark
SopmodJack 4 years ago
...as it says in my video...everyone knoew it anyway. You'd have to be stupid to believe that
youriding16 4 years ago
Well if we can get a whale in the themes, A dead sperm whale in newcastle i'd say it is theoretically possible there are great whites in cornwall but everyone knows basking sharks live of the english coast maybe great whites do aswell.
gamerlegend 4 years ago
How do you know that great whites arent just getting really clever and grinding down there fins on coral to make themselves look like basking sharks????
Do us all a favour jump in & find out :-)
ithinkthereforeiwank 4 years ago
Because they're not all idiots like you thats why?
youriding16 4 years ago
i think 1st one could be realy maybe but the second one was clearly filmed sum where else
dalby7 4 years ago
the bit where the shark is jumping out of the water was filmed in south africa. The bit where it is filmed from a boat is a basking shark. No worries
youriding16 4 years ago
It's funny how many people take the papers so seriously. I'm one of them unfortunately (HaHa) but it's clearly a basking shark. Nice try!!!!
bo88y1234 4 years ago
Did you know that sharks wont attack if there not really real.
P0P357UR3 4 years ago
naaaa you dont say
youriding16 4 years ago
No really i do, it wasn't a great white. :O
P0P357UR3 4 years ago
yes i know, i was being sarcastic, the first bit of footage was actually shot in SA, and the second bit is clearly a basking shark
youriding16 4 years ago
Ah now it seems its not true, now did they fake the moon landing?
P0P357UR3 4 years ago
FINALLY someone who says that its not a gr8 white sharks fin...
it might still be a shark, but not a gr8 white
altho im not riskin swimmin there lol
guitarrich92 4 years ago
lol basking shark ive seen em at porthcurno
boberik12 4 years ago
Just swim there, don't be scared lol.
I've just come back from cornwall after a week of pretty much non-stop bodyboarding, and seen nothing in the water, didn't even see one jellyfish, it really isn't a risk, and if you see a sahrk, it is very rare and just practice caution.
youriding16 4 years ago
you know that was filmed of the coast of SA
jeffreynumber5 4 years ago
oh good cos im going ro st.ives in a week lol
jenzagall12345 4 years ago
this shark inmmy opinion is a mako shark but there is defo some possibility of it being a porbeagle shark but have you seen the latest pics of the shark sighting it has so much resemblence of a great white but my opinion its a mako shark
lukshears987 4 years ago
my opinion is there is no doubt the first shark is a baskin shark the fin and its tail are exact to that of a baskin shark now as for the second shark its more likley to be a porbeagle shark a cousin of the great white google it ive studyed sharks for 11 years so there you have it take care people
sonnydanman 4 years ago
It may be a porbeagle, which are recognised by a white patch at the revrse bottom side of the dorsal fin, and sometimes have a white area on their pectoal fins :) Porbeagles can breach so you may be right, it may even be a mako as they can also breach the water and are found in our seas, porbeagles are usually timid creatures though.
youriding16 4 years ago
its a dolphin, pause it as it jumps and zoom in
hyperboy11 4 years ago
yeah you have a fair point there mate
youriding16 4 years ago
v fake heard about this yes it is a great white! but in africa, very clever
hyperboy11 4 years ago
Yeah that's what i heard about, in the news saying that it was all a hoax in south africa
youriding16 4 years ago
finally someone in utbe agrees with me!
hyperboy11 4 years ago
Yeah totally. You can tell by the videos that this is not a white shark, if these people on here that post saying it is definitely a great white knew anything about sharks, then they would clearly know that it isn't =)
youriding16 4 years ago
and 1 more thing u just freeze framed at a bad time look at other times with the fin its more pointed
chesleydude 4 years ago
It only looks more pointed because of the angle its at, you people can believe it if you want to, but when you see the fin sideways on you can tell it is not that of a great white, but don't let me stop you believing these lies =]
youriding16 4 years ago
It Mite Not Be A Great White, But Its Definatly Not A Basking Shark, Basking Sharks Grow Up To 1300Cm Long, Great Whites Grow Up To 734Cm Long
chavman101 4 years ago
Yeah they grow up to, this doesn't nmean it is full size
youriding16 4 years ago
and yes it could also very well b a dlophin i've seen some bottlenosed dolphins that look presicely like that
chesleydude 4 years ago
it could very well b a great white not all great whites have pointed fins i looked up some pics and went 2 the a aquarium recently and a couple at the aquarium had more rounded fins than that
chesleydude 4 years ago
Its A Great White, Basking Sharks Are Huge, Watch The Vid On The Side Called 'Britains First Killer?' And Watch TheFin Carefully, It Changes And Looks Like A Great White Sharks Fin.
chavman101 4 years ago