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It’s a topic that is once again in newspapers all over the UK after a group of researchers from the Florida based non profit research organisation Ocearch carried out a search at the Great Blasket Island in county Kerry Ireland for what would be if successful the first official confirmed Great White Shark in UK or Irish waters. Unfortunately for us shark lovers as i’m writing this the search has concluded without success after just 5 days. The Ocearch team released a statement saying that they were “limited” to how long they could search for due to the weather conditions preventing them from “expanding the search area” and making carrying out an accurate thorough search impossible.

Despite an unsuccessful search the research team believe this only the beginning regarding the search for great whites in our seas. Great white sharks usually inhabit waters with temperatures of between 12 and 25 degrees Celsius and our sea temperature regularly reaches an average of around 16 degrees Celsius during summer and autumn making it ideal for Great Whites, factor in the large seal populations and increasing number of alleged Great White sightings and you can see why researchers believe that a few individual great whites could be migrating from the Mediterranean to our waters in search of prey.

I personally believe it’s only a matter of time before we get the first confirmed great white in our waters but let me know what you think below ⬇️