The $30 million toe in the water

A great white shark has been spotted in the Mediterranean Sea , believed to be the first ever captured of an adult great white shark in the Mediterranean Sea in its natural habitat. divers from Healthy Seas were removing ghost nets on an offshore shipwreck between Sicily and Tunisia when they spotted the predator.

The sighting comes as researchers warn that Great Whites could soon appear off Britain's coast thanks to global warming. A great white shark has been spotted in the Mediterranean for the first time ever.

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Great white sharks are usually found in temperate and subtropical coastal waters, particularly in the northeastern Pacific, southern Africa, and Oceania. However, the findings suggest the species is now roaming the seas off the coast of Europe.

Statistically, it is way more likely to win the lottery jackpot than to meet such an iconic animal underwater, said Derk Remmers, the diver who filmed the encounter.

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Great white sharks have occasionally been spotted at the surface in the Mediterranean. However, underwater encounters filmed by divers have never been documented before.

The latest encounter took place while the team was working to recover abandoned fishing nets from a shipwreck located offshore in the Strait of Sicily. This is a key biodiversity hotspot, but also one of the most heavily exploited fishing areas in the Mediterranean.

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The researchers hope the sighting will help to shed light on the distribution of Great White Sharks around the world.

Diver Derk Remmers was the one to spot the Great White, and said nothing prepares you for a moment like this.

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Dr Carlo Cattano, researcher at the Sicily Marine Centre of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, said Most of our knowledge on the White Sharks in the Mediterranean Sea comes from records of dead specimens caught by fishing operations.

Observations like this are extremely valuable for improving our understanding of the distribution, habits, and behaviour of this critically endangered species, whose survival is threatened by human activities.

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Our research on sharks has, over time, allowed us to identify several key hotspots for threatened species, and this sighting is particularly significant in validating the conservation value of this area.

The sighting comes shortly after researchers warned that Great Whites could soon appear off Britain's coast thanks to global warming.