r/sharks • u/Not_Cardiologist9084 • 7d ago

Discussion Scuba divers come face to face with great white shark near Hubbards, N.S. | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/scuba-divers-come-face-to-face-with-great-white-shark-near-hubbards-n-s-1.7620548
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u/Organic-Wash-5194 7d ago

Great read. If they are in NS they have to be in the UK just unseen so far ?? Temp is good and food sources are plenty

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u/Only_Cow9373 7d ago edited 7d ago

White sharks have been confirmed to be in NS for hundreds of years. UK has never had a confirmed find, despite being much more populated, for much longer. Gotta be something else keeping them away, appropriate temps and food sources notwithstanding.

Interesting too that many of the species that do tend to share the same water temperatures as whites, despite not being seal-eaters, are found in the UK, while whites are not.

I like the term 'seal-eaters', easy to confuse with 'soul-eaters' 🥸

(Edit : corrected a slew a bad autocorrects)

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u/Organic-Wash-5194 7d ago

I think that getting into the North Sea may be difficult, but ive no idea why not on the Atlantic side. Gulf stream perhaps ??

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u/Only_Cow9373 7d ago

Kinda what crossed my mind. Some sort of current or geophysical or oceanographic or ?? condition that isn't conducive to leading them to that region...?

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u/Austrofossil 7d ago

There are no confirmed sightings nor catches or other traces of GWs in the north eastern Atlantics. Closest to UK was a confirmed catch in La Rochelle (France). 

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u/Organic-Wash-5194 7d ago

I think that La Rochelle is a mere morning swim away from the UK for a GW. But as you say, nothing confirmed.

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u/Not_Cardiologist9084 7d ago

Last I heard the UK doesn't have quite enough of the high quality food sources they would need to make traveling there worth it. Eastern Canada has loads of seals and cetaceans for them, especially at this time of year. Our fish stocks have also been slowly recovering after collapsing in the 50's and 70's so I imagine that plays a role as well.

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u/Francis-c92 5d ago

We have seals but the population pales in comparison to something like South Africa for example.

Everything else is pretty much fine for them. I imagine they do visit UK waters, but I doubt it's an area of the sea they would stay long term in.

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u/frog_slap 7d ago

Why?

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u/Organic-Wash-5194 7d ago

Ill go with temp is good and food source is plenty ??

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u/be_loved_freak Goblin Shark 6d ago

"it's like, 'That's a shark! What the heck?'"

That's...right? That's where they live. Why is it surprising? 🦈

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u/Not_Cardiologist9084 6d ago

Maybe where this guy is from Florida he didn't expect to see a shark this far north. That's the only reason I can think of that makes any sense because anyone from the area already knows they're here lol

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u/be_loved_freak Goblin Shark 6d ago

Yep! lol Like I'm glad the dive went well but I couldn't imagine going diving somewhere & not looking up the wildlife first.

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u/rose_b 6d ago

not usually so far north

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u/be_loved_freak Goblin Shark 6d ago

That's not true. I live in New England and it's quote highly talked about in the shark community that the great whites have returned in droves all the way up to Canada.

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u/rose_b 6d ago

Yes but historically, that's why its talk thay they "returned"- they weren't there before