What was the biggest shark ever caught in Australia?

A great white shark was captured near Kangaroo Island in Australia on 1 April 1987. This shark was estimated to be more than 6.9 m (23 ft) long by Peter Resiley, and has been designated as KANGA.

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What was the largest shark ever caught in Australia?

On 26 April 1990 local young fisherman Dion Gilmore caught a Great White Pointer shark by rod and reel. Caught 22 kms out of Streaky Bay the shark tired and was gaffed after a 5 hour and 15 minute struggle. The massive shark caught on a 24 kg line weighed in at 1520 kgs and was more than 5m long.

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Is there a 30 foot great white shark?

The people in this YouTube Short claim they believe the giant shark they encounter is 30 feet long! If they're right, they've just met the longest great white in the world. So far, research shows a famous white shark called Deep Blue as holding the title for the largest great white.

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What is the largest shark ever recorded in history?

O. megalodon was not only the biggest shark in the world, but one of the largest fish ever to exist. This giant shark is well-known for starring in the 2018 megalodon movie, The Meg.

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Is Deep Blue still alive 2023?

While Deep Blue may be one of the largest fish in the ocean, these creatures can still be elusive and NOAA estimates a great white shark lifespan to be around 30-70 years so there's every chance Deep Blue is still alive and well in the ocean to this day.

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Has there ever been a 25 foot great white shark?

The largest white shark reliably measured was a 21-foot (6.4-meter) individual from Cuba. Bites on whale carcasses found off southern Australia suggest that white sharks as long as 25 or 26 feet (7½ or 8 meters) exist today. The size of extinct Carcharodon has also been grossly exaggerated.

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Has Deep Blue ever lost?

In the final game of a six-game match, world chess champion Garry Kasparov triumphs over Deep Blue, IBM's chess-playing computer, and wins the match, 4-2.

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Is there still 1 Megalodon alive?

Internet rumors persist that modern-day megalodons exist – that they still swim around in today's oceans. But that's not true. Megalodons are extinct. They died out about 3.5 million years ago.

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What killed the Megalodon?

Megalodons succumbed to global cooling due to the shrinking of their habitat, the vanishing of their favorite prey, and competition from other predators 3.5 million years ago.

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What's the most aggressive shark?

Human Encounters. Because of these characteristics, many experts consider bull sharks to be the most dangerous sharks in the world. Historically, they are joined by their more famous cousins, great whites and tiger sharks, as the three species most likely to attack humans.

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What shark kills great white?

Scientists have published new findings confirming that orcas hunt great white sharks, after the marine mammal was captured on camera killing one of the world's largest sea predators.

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Is the submarine shark real?

The Submarine shark then was reportedly “sighted” for years to come and the legend grew longer as the years went on. Everyone who has worked on white sharks has seen their version of the Submarine, but it does not actually exist.

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What is the new shark discovered?

A new species of shark, called Apristurus ovicorrugatus. The discovery process began several years ago, when researchers were going through uncataloged materials in the Australian National Fish Collection, housed in Hobart, where they found a mysterious egg that they were unable to assign.

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What shark killed man in Australia?

Simon Nellist was killed when a great white attacked him in the waters near Sydney in February 2022. A member of Australia's Parliament said at the time that Nellist, a diving instructor, swam in the area nearly every day, according to BBC News.

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What are Australia's Big 3 sharks?

In fact, nearly all attacks in Australian coastal waters have been attributed to just three species: Great white sharks, tiger sharks and bull sharks (which aren't usually found in Victorian waters).

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What is the most shark infested waters in Australia?

Bondi Beach, Australia

Most of the attacks have taken place off the coast of New South Wales, the state where Bondi Beach is located.

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What if megalodon was still alive today?

If megalodons were alive today, we would be seeing them, ALL THE TIME. Unlike many sharks, Megalodon was a warm water animal. Fossils are only found in ancient warm water oceans and seas, not near the poles.

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Did anything eat the Megalodon?

Mature megalodons likely did not have any predators, but newly birthed and juvenile individuals may have been vulnerable to other large predatory sharks, such as great hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna mokarran), whose ranges and nurseries are thought to have overlapped with those of megalodon from the end of the Miocene and ...

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How old was the last megalodon?

It has been thought that megalodon became extinct around the end of the Pliocene, about 2.6 Mya; claims of Pleistocene megalodon teeth, younger than 2.6 million years old, are considered unreliable. A 2019 assessment moves the extinction date back to earlier in the Pliocene, 3.6 Mya.

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Has anyone ever seen a megalodon?

As of yet, no one has seen a Megalodon, also known as a Megatooth shark, which reportedly went extinct around 2.58 million years ago, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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Has Deep Blue had babies?

At one point a diver gave her a high five as she glided by. Shark experts believe Deep Blue is about 50 years old and was possibly pregnant and about to give birth when the encounter took place. Experts said it's possible that she has given birth to more than 100 babies in her lifetime.

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Has a human beat Deep Blue?

Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov was a pair of six-game chess matches between then-world chess champion Garry Kasparov and an IBM supercomputer called Deep Blue. Kasparov won the first match, held in Philadelphia in 1996, by 4–2. Deep Blue won a 1997 rematch held in New York City by 3½–2½.

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Is Deep Blue bigger than Jaws?

The bottom line is that Jaws was by no means over the top when it predicted how large a great white might get, and Deep Blue is pretty much as big as that famous movie shark – and definitely a lot friendlier.

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