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Follow the truly amazing story of one Planet Earth cameraman's desperate search for the perfect slow motion shot of an Oceanic Whitetip Shark in South Africa's shallow seas, just off the coast of Cape Town. Subscribe: bit.ly/BBCEarthSub
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@retirednavy8720 2 жыл бұрын

Probably the most dangerous shark there is. Read the accounts of shark attacks on sailors in WWII after their ships were sunk. Almost all the sharks that did that were Whitetips. The Great White, the Bull Shark and the Tiger may get more press but the Whitetip has racked up a huge body count over the years.

@stevegant7286 2 жыл бұрын

U.S.S. Indianapolis!

@DamitFeelsGoodtobeaRaider Жыл бұрын

if i'm not mistaken aren't tiger sharks known to eat our garbage? (maritime) i think things like food cans and; strangely, hub caps have been found in their stomachs before. makes me wonder what else they'll eat.

@daniellinehan8467 Жыл бұрын

Marmite haha marmite's delicious 😋 the person sitting next to me disagrees though

@Stickleback 7 ай бұрын

@@DamitFeelsGoodtobeaRaider Humans.

@Jagnole101 5 ай бұрын

They don’t come in contact with us often. They frenzy at a very high rate. Doesn’t take much.

@richardmorris2168 2 жыл бұрын

"when the cruising sharks went to attack speed, it was time to get out" what an all time classic line!!!

@jec1ny 5 жыл бұрын

These guys have nerves of steel. I am not paranoid of sharks but there are four species (out of around 480) that if I know one is near by, I am getting out of the water PDQ. Oceanic Whitetips are one of them. They are highly aggressive with a history of unprovoked attacks on people. A very dangerous specie of shark and known man eater.

@TheJamie1965 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I was thinking. I'm sure I've heard of carnage after shipwrecks because of Oceanic Whitetips.

@richardouellette4041 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheJamie1965 the worst shark attack on record, the U.S.S Indianapolis, was these guys

@TheJamie1965 2 жыл бұрын

@@richardouellette4041 yes that's the one. Not hard to imagine what these guys get like when they're excited and there's blood in the water.

@youALLadopted95 2 жыл бұрын

What are the other 3 species? Bulls, tigers, and Great Whites? Or hammerheads?

@jec1ny 2 жыл бұрын

@@youALLadopted95 Bulls Tiger and Whites.

@andybowen1249 6 жыл бұрын

Oceanic White Tips are super curious,aggressive sharks that really do want take an exploratory bite,any potential meal in this desert is well appreciated,can’t afford to be fussy can we now?

@sammylacks4937 3 жыл бұрын

That is exactly right.

@carljohnson8732 3 жыл бұрын

The creaking sounds of sinking ships are akin to ringing the dinner bell.

@josepshchavez4337 2 жыл бұрын

@@carljohnson8732 sports dude ?. .

@TopDog69 11 жыл бұрын

Even the behind the scenes footage for Planet earth looked amazing.

@mobeck 2 жыл бұрын

I like how the sharks have little fish entourages following them around

@al-jw6cd 2 жыл бұрын

groupies

@user-hv9jb2tu1w Жыл бұрын

@@al-jw6cd they’re called groupers

@RalphHund 4 ай бұрын

Pilotfish

@asacloutier7530 Жыл бұрын

You can tell the intense focus is different in this species, seemingly relentless whereas bulls and whites will just cruise by lazily. Whole different experience.

@WorldMaverik 6 жыл бұрын

Had one swim up on me one time swimming with some dolphins. I was looking over my shoulder the rest of the year after that!

@sameerrajakumar 12 жыл бұрын

Amazing he knew they were gonna attack but still filmed so we get a chance to see these sharks , a sight we can never see in our whole lifetime but they filmed it for us to see

@A67255 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful apex predators,, their ocean ,their rules . Oceanic White Tip sharks are supremely designed for the role the play in nature.

@janedoe-ex5wo 2 жыл бұрын

They are just gorgeous!

@sammylacks4937 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing how little of this shark is known. They live where food is scarce and key in on shipwrecks and plane crashes. With little food available when it happens along the Oceanic white tip takes advantage of it. They don t just bite , they will eat you.

@Skiltonius 12 жыл бұрын

In fact they are the likely culprites in almost every major maritime disaster involving shark attacks, and more to the point you tend only to meet them when you are a considerable distance from shore making escape from them far more difficult. I feel within my rights to say that I consider the oceanic white tip to be the most dangerous shark. But feel free to dispute me.

@issacdragon3834 2 жыл бұрын

bull shark is much worse.

@Skiltonius 2 жыл бұрын

@@issacdragon3834 care to offer a reason for your assertion?

@issacdragon3834 2 жыл бұрын

@@Skiltonius bull sharks are known to be the most aggressive when they attack with he highest testosterone of any animal on earth. they never just take one bite they always try to finish off the victim. they are found near the beach and it a fresh water and have way more attacks/fatalities then the white tip recorded

@retirednavy8720 2 жыл бұрын

@@issacdragon3834 Wrong. The Whitetips have a much higher body count. Nearly all the sailors that have been set adrift by the sinking of ships in war fell to whitetips. On the USS Indianapolis alone they lost more than 150 to sharks. The Bull Shark may have more attacks but they don't have as many kills. Most attacks by Bull sharks are not fatal but nearly every attack by whitetips is because you are out on the high seas a long way from shore and are probably treading water with no chance for medical treatment. Something tells me you have never been out of sight of the shore on the ocean and don't know a thing about the open ocean sharks.

@williamthielens1574 8 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite shark species

@ogrebattle22763 3 жыл бұрын

Mine to they are very interesting species of shark.... I love learning about their behavior.... they go about things differently very sneaky & deceptive shark also ...

@carljohnson8732 3 жыл бұрын

Probably the least favorite among USS INDIANAPOLIS sailors long ago. 😏

@alastairmcleod3635 2 жыл бұрын

They are evil bastards I've been in the water with one, stone cold evil bastards

@Skiltonius 12 жыл бұрын

I would have to argue that, from wikipedia - Famed oceanographic researcher Jacques Cousteau described the oceanic whitetip as "the most dangerous of all sharks".[13] Despite the greater notoriety of the great white shark and other sharks habitually found nearer the shore, the oceanic whitetip is suspected to be responsible for many fatal attacks on humans, as a result of predation on survivors of shipwrecks or downed aircraft.

@Leelz247 12 жыл бұрын

Hey, that shark is huge! Maybe it's friendly! Let's dive underwater and say hello!

@Skiltonius 12 жыл бұрын

The total number of casualties attributed to oceanic whitetip sharks for the 3 ships I mentioned are - 1482.5, lets half that for a total of - 741.25 and this would still be hundreds of casualties higher than the total number of recorded great white attacks.

@iainhunneybell 2 жыл бұрын

Pectorals down, speed. That was getting dangerous. I’ve been in the water and needed to get out once you get three in the water with you. Not aggrieved like these, but biding their time, and while you try and watch two, you never know when #3 will come knocking, and these are apex open water predators

@michaelmuller1891 4 жыл бұрын

So raw and wild. Nature in all it's glory. Another great shark vid.

@user-of5qw5yi7h 8 жыл бұрын

They are so beautiful...

@Skiltonius 12 жыл бұрын

You think the people posting for BBC Earth would at least name the video correctly - then again it would seem budget cuts are taking their toll. The oceanic whitetip is generally considered the most dangerous shark - if in doubt look up the story of the USS Indianapolis!

@theintroverttraveler1849 Жыл бұрын

Every time OWT is mentioned, the USS Indianapolis is mentioned, I think out of turn. It is one thing to be a body floating on the surface, perhaps injured; in this case the risk of being attacked by a shark, and in particular by an OWT, is particularly high, it is very different being a diver in a dive, in which case the probability of being mistaken for prey is very close to 0. The the fact that many castaways have, sadly, been attacked does not mean that every diver will be

@AnonningAnon Жыл бұрын

@@theintroverttraveler1849Delusional comment. If the divers had stayed in the water longer, they would have gotten attacked and could have died. They knew it and even mentioned getting out of the water before it was too late.

@Skiltonius 12 жыл бұрын

The estimated number of deaths caused by oceanic white tips must be way ahead of the great whites, tigers and bulls. Lets just take the stats from the web link I posted - Great Whites have 431 confirmed attacks between 1580 and 2011. The Oceanic White Tip has just 14 confirmed attacks. However there are numerous cases where the Oceanic white tip is believed to have pretty much eaten their way through ship loads of people - USS Indianapolis, The Steamship Nova Scotia & The Cape San Juan.

@generationfallout5189 10 ай бұрын

Sad thinking about all the shipwrecks that ended in feeding frenzies. You can tell these sharks love a good frenzy.

@Eric205gen 12 жыл бұрын

omg that was a really intense video..look at all that blood...

@anthonyrodriguez4122 Жыл бұрын

I am in the navy and I can’t imagine what those poor sailors in the uss Indianapolis had to deal with when these sharks were picking apart the sailors in the ocean during the wreckage

@norms3913 2 жыл бұрын

The circle of death when they start circling you

@ncl1p 12 жыл бұрын

Look at those clever black & white fish hiding behind the shark's back :)

@jonathanturek5846 3 жыл бұрын

Haha I thought about the old Sylvester cartoon with the bulldog spike that had the little dog shadowing him everywhere.. :)

@gcrauwels941 2 жыл бұрын

They're called Pilot fish, Naucrates ductor.

@terencem8795 2 жыл бұрын

Extremely dangerous this type of shark.

@Zetler 2 жыл бұрын

"Lets go find a bottle of rum huh?"-LMAO. Yeah, well earned.

@lulupedersen1153 2 жыл бұрын

Wooow.. didn't know these sharks was so aggressive. I have dived with them in Bali many times :O

@TwoBlueScrews 2 жыл бұрын

You are probably confusing reef white tips and oceanic white tips

@thedarknessunderneathpodca6366 2 жыл бұрын

Whitetips seem unusual in that they are not only more aggressive on average, they gang up on you. I always hear about multiple hitting someone when they kill. I think they evolved this way as deep sea fish where prey is scarce.

@pontius2000 Ай бұрын

Fun fact: These were originally called White Sharks. Then when the more famous one was described, it became the "Great White Shark" and this one became the "Lesser White Shark". Then to avoid confusion, they changed this one to the Oceanic Whitetip Shark and the other remained the Great White Shark.

@cbraat27 Ай бұрын

Amazing how they stayed afloat with those brass balls dragging them down

@FromtheHerts81 Жыл бұрын

The music is phenomenal, setting just the right tone for this tense, unpredictable series of events.

@elsamuraiguapo 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine if you had one ocean related wish? I would wish to be immune from attacks from just 4 shark species. Great whites, tigers, bulls, and oceanic white tips. With that I could freely enjoy the ocean without the fear of this shithappening.

@xenomorphbiologist-xx1214 2 жыл бұрын

What till you hear about saltwater crocs

@elsamuraiguapo 2 жыл бұрын

@@xenomorphbiologist-xx1214 nobody in the ocean getting attacked by saltwater crocs.

@xenomorphbiologist-xx1214 2 жыл бұрын

@@elsamuraiguapo I think they do tho. That’s why they’re called saltwater crocs. Not quite in the open ocean mind you, but in lots of mangroves, river mouths and beaches lots of people have been killed by saltwater crocs

@elsamuraiguapo 2 жыл бұрын

@@xenomorphbiologist-xx1214 well I'm talking about being able to swim in the open ocean or nice reefs/diving spots. Ain't nobody being attacked by crocs there. Plus they're easier to avoid cause they're mostly concentrated in Northern Australia and southeast Asia

@xenomorphbiologist-xx1214 2 жыл бұрын

@@elsamuraiguapo right right. In that case you would be correvt

@inglese2996 2 жыл бұрын

After seeing a recent attack by a white tip on a group of divers - you can view it on KZfaq - this was pure stupidity. With sharks in that mode, they were close to an attack.

@theintroverttraveler1849 Жыл бұрын

I've seen that video too, and later I have dived with whitetips in the same place (Elphinstone reef in Egypt). "Pure stupidity" is an extreme word. Ok, there's a couple of video on KZfaq about attacks by whitetips to divers, still the chance of an attack of shark (any shark) to human, are very close to 0. Rather than "pure stupidity" I'd call it calculated risk

@mercedesroadster 11 жыл бұрын

no attack

@tazman6000 11 жыл бұрын

No Attack ! No Great White Shark ! The Oceanic White Tip Sharks just want to find out what it is in the water.

@seanmatthewking 4 жыл бұрын

tazman6000 Wants to find out with its mouth..,

@Abebe345 3 жыл бұрын

They want to find out if they have dinner, no other curiosity.

@All.Fathers Жыл бұрын

These whitetips are vicious

@talicatinai2637 2 жыл бұрын

These sharks are scarey because of the speed at which they can turn thanks to those huge pectoral fins .

@BenGi-yj8io 8 ай бұрын

On first glance these sharks with their rounded fins and adorable face wouldn’t strike me as a dangerous species. But soon as I see them bumping, that changes everything

@vincenzollamas 7 ай бұрын

those 2 divers are insane, they should've gotten out of there the moment they got in

@alexanderwood3465 4 ай бұрын

2:09 - 'dead eyes, like doll's eyes...'

@maniacchen Жыл бұрын

how did they sense ship wrecks...

@s4cells4cell7 2 ай бұрын

They are the velociraptor of the sea.... very unpredictable and aggreasive

@LadyhawksLairDotCom 11 жыл бұрын

This is the second time BBC Earth has really screwed up animal identification this week.

@octoberfire13 2 жыл бұрын

What is the difference between oceanic white tips and white tip reef sharks?

@TwoBlueScrews 2 жыл бұрын

Life and Death

@octoberfire13 2 жыл бұрын

@@TwoBlueScrews LMFAO 😂

@fabiana7157 2 жыл бұрын

@@octoberfire13 Basically, the reef ones have more food at their disposal so they are more peaceful. Oceanic whitetips are almost always hungry. Food is scarce in the open ocean and that makes them very opportunistic predators. They have to eat almost whatever they can find. That's why they are so dangerous to humans. They have eaten more humans than any other shark, victims of shipwrecks testify to this.

@ken244 2 жыл бұрын

Pectoral fins tell the story.

@AG-qh9hc 2 жыл бұрын

Mistitled video, no shark attack.

@Alexlance1997 12 жыл бұрын

Exactly, I was agreeing with you

@InhaleExhale2Times 11 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@Alexlance1997 12 жыл бұрын

just to add, more people are killed by vending machines than sharks each year

@jessestewart169 6 жыл бұрын

Alexlance1997 ha ha 👍

@williamhoskins7818 5 жыл бұрын

That's why I don't swim when vending machines are present !

@boldfurykeren 12 жыл бұрын

They're not hiding they're symbiotic, the sharks know that they're there

@lyndoncmp5751 Жыл бұрын

Far cry from when Blue Water White Death filmed literally a hundred or more back in 1969.

@BabySpit Жыл бұрын

I think one of these just took out a Baton Rouge teen who jumped from a ship

@lockdown172 11 жыл бұрын

Right on!!

@garciaojeda2 11 жыл бұрын

Misleading title. These are white tip sharks not great whites... Still good video.

@francoisdomerc6212 2 жыл бұрын

Cela ne fait que confirmer la dangerosité du longimane. Les requins allaient le dévorer. C'est un fauve. Le plongeur est courageux.

@carljohnson8732 3 жыл бұрын

More and more people should get in the water with them to prove humans are not on the shark's menu. 😄

@jayskestrel8130 3 жыл бұрын

Not whitetips. Any other shark but a whitetip. Whitetips hold the record for the most attacks on humans in 2 days. They killed roughly between 30-112 people in 2 days back in the 1940s.

@carljohnson8732 3 жыл бұрын

@@jayskestrel8130 hi satan, yes you're absolutely correct. Just joking around.

@rajwoodson 6 жыл бұрын

who was filming Doug at the end? Or was that earlier footage from Rick just showed out of order?

@TehxFallenn 12 жыл бұрын

beautiful*

@AmitKumar-me2fy 7 жыл бұрын

Very nice

@djmiho 11 жыл бұрын

balls of steel... you do know what i meant by that?

@travels129 2 жыл бұрын

Its safer underwater with shark then bobbing up and down on the surface

@djmiho 11 жыл бұрын

This reminds me of the movie "Dark Tides" I liked it, since it had real sharks involved

@muniz27 11 жыл бұрын

so where's the attack?

@Hashpotato 4 жыл бұрын

there were several 'attacks'. the bumps the sharks are making are pre-emptive strikes. the divers were pushing their luck staying in the water that long. oceanic white tips are not to be fucked with.

@BEEyonced 3 жыл бұрын

@@Hashpotato What nice sharks pushing that strange fish off his territory instead of eating up. Seriously for extincting sharks on a 100 million rate each year for way to many yrs I am sorry they only teach 5 'humans' manners by millions of dives, surfs, swims! We're so nasty that no good animal wants to become one with such a corrupt character likeness/DNA!

@tudoerrado7397 12 жыл бұрын

impressive

@velv33ta31 8 ай бұрын

Balls of steel, and it's not even that powerful of a shark it's just got an aggressive school hunting behaviour

@sonnyliverpool 12 жыл бұрын

those guys are crazy!

@mattpenner420 12 жыл бұрын

great white shark attack "mode"

@wasy35 12 жыл бұрын

A bit melodramatic don't you think? Amazing none the less.

@porticoman 2 жыл бұрын

Nope. That’s an accurate representation of what it’s like to be in the water with Oceanics. They are very graceful and a beautiful species but they like to take names and kick ass. They’re pretty quick to get all the names. Around my dive sites, the Red Sea, they are responsible for many attacks, including probably all of the fatalities. Given the lack of accessible medical facilities, a decent nip would probably prove fatal. The behaviour shown in the clip is pretty typical. The reaction of the divers, also typical. I’d have been out of the water sooner. Not due to the number of sharks but to their change in behaviour. Especially the high speed pass. Time to make like a banana and split.

@s0meb0dyst0pme 11 жыл бұрын

No, that is just the name of the programme

@kingcrumpet 2 жыл бұрын

Those divers deserve whatever they end up getting.

@iAmIronMan0605 5 жыл бұрын

Title is misleading

@randomstuff2421 11 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile in British the BBC is troll facing in front of the monitor...

@Joe-ve4uf 4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad there was no attack but this title is click-bait.

@foreverlv311 2 жыл бұрын

Ultimate scavengers..deadly.

@FlyUnicornsFly 11 жыл бұрын

Labelling genius: Those are NOT Great White Sharks. That is an entirely different species.

@dolphsps 12 жыл бұрын

cool video

@s0meb0dyst0pme 11 жыл бұрын

No dear. They are Oceanic White Tips.

@Factacceptancemovement Жыл бұрын

I would rather swim with a great white than one of these! Whitetips are opportunistic and aggressive and will not be deterred by common methods used to deter other sharks like facing the shark remaining calm

@Skiltonius 12 жыл бұрын

Really? You have access to a whole world of information via the internet and you cannot be bothered to look up the meaning of a word. Go to wikipedia.

@regiscoppey1808 8 ай бұрын

They are highly aggressive because of the scarcity of food in their natural environment

@osmith2126 12 жыл бұрын

no shark attacked the captain but they were closely by the captain

@SteveOMan1466 12 жыл бұрын

Wow

@sMaRtiEs1202 11 жыл бұрын

that looked like Whitetip Sharks to me, definitely not the white pointer.

@rocket5557 2 жыл бұрын

It’s all fun and games until it’s not. Many others have not been so lucky.

@joshuatrotter25 3 жыл бұрын

Oceanic Whitetips aren't considered to be as dangerous as the Bull, Tiger or Great White Sharks but make no mistake it is highly aggressive & will most definitely attack you.

@BEEyonced 3 жыл бұрын

The only beast is mankind! Such a video is a perfect example what stupid ppl everywhere still believe a shark attacking you by first glimpse for eating up. And yet idiotic comments. Wanna see you not standing your ground in your territory when strangers intrude, even if you delegate to police. To bad by all this extinction animals still not rising up against human parasites!

@nunka34ify 3 жыл бұрын

They are the most aggressive sharks. The reason there are less attacks is that these species live out in the middle of the open ocean, where people hardly go. If these sharks lived near beaches there would be attacks all the time.

@BEEyonced 3 жыл бұрын

Well I dived several times with White Tips and yet still am I alive! As a hobby diver, not a shark expert!

@jasonrogers6454 12 сағат бұрын

@@BEEyoncedAlmost certainly with whitetip reef sharks, not oceanic whitetips.

@zeetee2332 7 жыл бұрын

didnt know that whitetips attack people :O

@victorserrano8440 7 жыл бұрын

ZeeTee white tips have killed more humans then any other shark

@JustNatax3 6 жыл бұрын

ZeeTee An oceanic whitetip (Carcharhinus longimanus) is something entirely different than a reef whitetip (Triaenodon obesus). Maybe you mixed that up because the ladder is not dangerous to humans. The reef white tip is a pretty little fellow to look at while snorkelling, they're peaceful and shy; but the oceanic white tip is extremely dangerous!!! Highly aggressive and curious, they have feeding frenzies and are very known for killing and eating shipwrecked. You do not want to see those out in the open.

@Kevin-hx2ky 5 жыл бұрын

To follow up on that, OWT sharks are curious and aggressive because their habitat is basically a desert. They're always searching for the next morsel to eat.

@jaretcontreras8611 5 жыл бұрын

They took part in one of the largest shark attacks in history, at the sinking of the USS Indianapolis.

@tiffanyeyoung1800 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, they're bad news

@loisjclark Ай бұрын

They're pelagic sharks. Damn hard to source food in the middle of vast oceans. They obviously have to be fast & curious or they wouldn't be there - I find the over-dramatisation a bit wearing, frankly.