RP Silvertip sharks they're actually three species of sharks here.

Number of sharks

Shark proximity

Diver 2 Uh, silvertip sharks.

And there are sharks.

Sharks eat fish.

Sharks are good swimmers.

Now when we were out tagging our sharks, this is how we tagged them on the front of a RIB get in there fast occasionally the sharks do react.

We kill about 100 million sharks a year.

Purple sharks are dangerous animals.

He was saying to me, Over there you've got sharks.

We tagged 105 sharks last summer.

And keep an eye out for sharks.

Many shark species are threatened with extinction.

And sharks used to come into the bay.

These are the tuna, the billfish and the sharks.

According to the news, he was eaten by sharks.

Sharks are notorious for having a thirst for blood.

And because I love sharks I'm somewhat obsessed with sharks I wanted to do another, more celebratory, story about sharks, as a way of talking about the need for shark conservation.

And being able to tell the gender of a shark has got very important for things like policing the trade in basking shark and other species through societies, because it is illegal to trade any sharks.

Members of both families eat squid, fish, and even sharks.

This is a location in the Pacific where white shark converge.

Tom devoted his whole life to studying sharks.

Basking sharks are awesome creatures. They are just magnificent.

We use a pole camera on the boat to actually film shark.

There are variations in the extent of oophagy among the different shark species.

That's banned now, and that'll be good news for the sharks.

I'll give you some examples. Lets talk about dentists, vasectomies, guns and shark attacks. Okay?

There's great concern that basking sharks are depleted all throughout the world.

So very simple things like that, we're trying to learn about basking sharks.

So when they looked at the genetics of basking sharks, they found that the diversity was incredibly low.

A 3D animation of a number of sharks, dolphins, and whales. Written by Mark Kilgard 1998.

Week in, week out.

Maybe five or six people get killed by sharks every year.

They found that there was no genetic differentiation between any of the world's oceans of basking sharks.

We might get two or three dead sharks washed up in Ireland a year, if we're kind of lucky.

Whales flap their tails up and down and sharks from one side to the other.

And if you're a biologist and you know about sharks, and you want to assess, you know, how much jeopardy am I really in here, there's one question that sort of jumps to the forefront of your mind immediately which is Diver 1 What kind of sharks?

You can only rarely be in the right place to find sharks into August.

The importance of basking sharks to the coast communities is recognized through the language.

And we thought that basking sharks were temperate animals and only lived in our latitude.

At night you can see what happened in a second in daytime, we call them land sharks.

Probably the best documented basking shark fishery in the world is that from Achill Island.

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