Researchers from the College of South Alabama (USA) filmed a terrific white shark named Miss Pawla off the coast of Alabama. Dr. Sean Powers, director of USA’s Stokes College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, calls the sighting “uncommon.”
Final week, USA introduced researchers noticed the feminine juvenile shark on underwater cameras close to Alabama’s synthetic reef zone. Miss Pawla, who’s about 8 toes lengthy and roughly 15 years previous, apparently caught round for about 10 days final month, however as of Friday final week, she is not there.
It’s not widespread to see a terrific white shark off Alabama’s coast. Powers instructed USA: “We now have surveyed over 1,000 synthetic and pure reef areas during the last 10 years, offering scientific knowledge to help the State of Alabama in managing its offshore fisheries. That is our first documented sighting of a white shark.”
Although that is the primary documented sighting by scientists within the space and a uncommon incidence, divers have reported seeing white sharks off the coast of Alabama. USA says a fisherman caught one not too long ago and one other nice white washed up on the shore of the Florida Panhandle. These unofficial sightings recommend the species could also be extra widespread within the northern Gulf of Mexico than researchers thought.
The college says that in the USA, white sharks are extra widespread off the coast of California and within the cooler waters off the coast of New England.
Researchers captured the footage of Miss Pawla about 150 toes under the floor of the water close to the synthetic reef.
