Incredible footage shows a gigantic shark, thought to be a great white, circling around a small boat. "The shark that is displayed is a five-metre Great White shark," Lukie MC wrote. It is notable for its size, with larger female individuals growing to 6.1 m (20 ft) in length and 1,905–2,268 kg (4,200–5,000 lb) in weight at maturity. The necropsy results are in for the dead great white shark found along a beach in Aptos over the weekend. (Read about another huge great white shark captured off Guadalupe in 2011.) Lowe thinks the question is further clouded in this latest Deep Blue sighting by her voracious appetite. The great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), also known as the great white, white shark or "white pointer", is a species of large mackerel shark which can be found in the coastal surface waters of all the major oceans.
No trace of an Australian diver has been found more than 24 hours after what police believe was a fatal great white shark attack on Sunday.
It died in 1998 in tuna fishing nets in South Australia.