Rare sand tiger shark filmed in New Zealand deep-sea waters

The Te Papa Fish Team has been sampling fish diversity around White Island, an active New Zealand volcano in the Bay of Plenty. In March 2009 traps collected fish specimens at 50 to 1500 m, and baited videos documented fish diversity at 50 to 900 m depth. The video footage shown here was taken at a depth of 880 m and shows a rare sand tiger shark Odontaspis ferox.

Find out more information about the work of our fish team at http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/fish

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• te papa
• fish
• biodiversity
• shark
• sand shark
• Odontaspis ferox
• White Island

[Dakzilla13]

First...aww damnit!

[HazzaFilms]

FIRST! Pretty Cool