{"id":54188,"date":"2026-06-08T17:30:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/diver-on-filming-rare-footage-of-great-white-shark-in-the-mediterranean\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T17:30:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:30:37","slug":"diver-on-filming-rare-footage-of-great-white-shark-in-the-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/diver-on-filming-rare-footage-of-great-white-shark-in-the-mediterranean\/","title":{"rendered":"Diver on filming rare footage of Great White shark in the Mediterranean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">A diver who filmed an incredibly rare encounter with a Great White shark in the Mediterranean Sea in May has described the moment as &#8220;pretty special&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">&#8220;The shark was pretty close to us [&#8230;] And in fact my fingers were trembling when I was trying to get the camera operating,&#8221; volunteer diver Derk Remmers told the BBC. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">It is thought overfishing has contributed to driving the species to near extinction in the Mediterranean. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Scientists say people should not be concerned as the shark, believed to be an adult male, was spotted many miles offshore between Tunisia and Sicily. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Conservationists said they hoped the sighting may encourage governments to create marine protected areas in Mediterranean waters. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Divers working for the NGO Healthy Seas captured the footage whilst diving to highlight the problem of so-called &#8220;ghost fishing nets&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cd6p6zqzj6do?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A diver who filmed an incredibly rare encounter with a Great White shark in the Mediterranean Sea in May has described the moment as &#8220;pretty special&#8221;. &#8220;The shark was pretty close to us [&#8230;] And in fact my fingers were trembling when I was trying to get the camera operating,&#8221; volunteer diver Derk Remmers told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[15493,1826,733,3791,10960,1793,1072,948],"class_list":["post-54188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-diver","tag-filming","tag-footage","tag-great","tag-mediterranean","tag-rare","tag-shark","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54190,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54188\/revisions\/54190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}