Where Have the Sharks Gone? South Africa's Great White Crisis

On Ocean Day, the ocean's most feared and revered predator is back in the spotlight but with two wildly different stories unfolding across the globe. For the first time, volunteer divers removing abandoned fishing nets near Sicily have captured what is believed to be the first-ever underwater footage of a Great White Shark in the Mediterranean Sea. Scientists say encountering the rare predator this far below the surface is akin to winning the lottery. But thousands of kilometers away along the coast of South Africa, the picture is devastatingly different. Once a global hub for Great White encounters, sightings in places like Gansbaai have plummeted to just a handful per year. According to the South African National Biodiversity Institute, 82 of the country's 191 shark species are now at risk of extinction. Driven by a "perfect ecological storm" of killer whale attacks, overfishing, commercial nets, and climate pressures, marine dynamics researchers warn that these apex predators are rapidly disappearing from our oceans. Al Jazeera's Cara Legg reports. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on X : https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.news/AJEMobile