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- Featuring exclusive footage of a species never before filmed in the wild, Searching For A Monster chronicles an incredible four-year scientific quest to find and explore one of nature's most reclusive, little-known creatures; the Greenland Shark.
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It's incredible that someone is swimming around him pointing at him with lights and camera and he stays calm.
The type of light doesn't affect them as you think
They are blind😊
Greenland sharks are blind. Because the oceans around Greenland are so dark, it's a useless waste of energy for them to be able to see. They hunt using their sense of smell. 😊
Maybe I'm crazy, but I am so excited about sharks. They're perfect predators and survivors.
Agreed sharks are awesome quite misunderstood and vital to the health of the ocean.
@@zedddddful "47 Meters Down", "The Shallows", and most of today's exaggerated shark horror flicks are STILL portraying them as murderers craving human flesh, despite so many true and astonishing discoveries and mysteries about sharks. Sharks are less dangerous than dolphins and are hunted by some of them!
Meh, sharks aren't stupid. Hence their continued survival after millions and millions and millions of years. Nobody will convince me that a shark attacking a human was mistaken identity. They are stealthy, cunning hunters. They know full well what they're stalking. I bloody love sharks, but I refuse too turn them into bottle sucking angels like everyone else
I struggle with daily anxiety, nervous energy, depression and allways jumpy nerves, these nature documentaries really calm me, I leave my head for awhile😱
I don't know how I would have cried under water, but I'm pretty sure I would have. The Greenland Sharks are my favorite species, I can only imagine how he felt seeing her for the first time. 💖💖💖 She's gorgeous... Such wisdom in her eyes...
Makes me want fish/shark sticks for dinner 🍽
@@darklynoon6847 🤣😆🤣😆🤣
Considering she's CENTURIES old, yeah she's picked up a thing or two in life.
they don't have wisdom. with that little food, their life (like most deep sea animals) is just drifting in water for years.
😂😂
Humans are far more monstrous than any sea creature. The Greenland Shark is an amazing beast & along with the Six Gill Shark are extremely uncommon & Huge. Awesome Doc.👍🦈😊🇦🇺
Bravo 👏 If only everyone thought the way you do, it would be a much better world!!!
@Marc Menard Precisely!!
Ah yes we the dominant species hate ourselves do you feel better now? 🤡🤡🤡🤡
@@paulcarmi8130 Who said anything about hate? I was just stating a fact. I would argue that the only reason we even know how amazing these sharks are is because we are so incredible as a species. Still doesn't change the obvious fact that we are a far greater monster than any shark could ever be.🤡😝👍
i love this shark and the fact that it can outlive me 5 times :D
I had previously lamented in the fleeting images of dead Greenland sharks and comparisons to the 6 gilled shark etc.
What a great documentary for biologists, and shark lovers.
If you were swimming beside me and shining that damned light in my eye, I'd bite you in half, greenland sharks are very tolerant. This guy makes it sound like we knew absolutely nothing about greenland sharks before him and the other guy came along. I was reading about them as a kid.
Well said, my nan have told med stories about them from her youth. And she was born in the 40s
I was looking for this
jeremy wade did a documentary on them.
Yes we know you would. Everyone knows humans are homicidal
Yeah well…you’re a shitty human so the CZcams comment section will have to do 😂nah the guy is just telling as much info as possible because not all of us have been blessed with as much knowledge as you 🥴
I hope they decide to stop fishing them.. They're amazing super long living creatures.
IO agree ,but I believe the only people that actually fish them are the Intuits for food. Supposedly they have to bury the carcass until it actually begins to ROT prior to eating it. Something to do with the excessive Vitamin B or some other Vitamin.
As long as it's a few indeginous tribes that are respectful of the creature. It's the bycatch from Asian commercial fisherman which they just use as chum or throw over for the seaworms in the km thick blanket of marine snow which accumulates at btm of trenches and at the floors of intercity KFCs
@@jttraina4516
Haha I'm JT too.
When I saw your name I thoilught I didn't write this? I looked again and saw it was another JT
@@jttraina4516 its because of urea not vitamines
I assume most of the deaths caused by fishing are primarily bycatch due to their slow speed ( bycatch- unintentional net catch)
An amazing documentary the perseverence and determination of these researchers paid off with incredible footage, Thank you so much
The sharks are coming in to see the divers! “Hortense! You have to see these weird seals! They have long, bifurcated tails, a body that smells like one of those old metal monsters! And have one huge glowing eye p, brighter than the sun!”
I love how as you swim along the shark it's like heck is this stahp as it like slowly swims away.
Animal, not monster. It does what nature has determined it's role to be in this world, but at the same time it is an intelligent & curious living being with it's own unique personality. Hardly a mindless monster.
There are an awful lot of humans who, while not mindless, truly are monsters. And it's an insult to the Greenland Shark, actually I must say all sharks, to place them in the same category.
Well worded.
Amen to this. ♡
Holy shit it's just a title, it's not that deep. Man really wrote a whole paragraph
Eloquently stated, my friend.
I mostly agree, and I'm glad neither scientist called the sharks monsters during their encounters. Though it's helpful to know there is more than one definition for "monster." And I hope the one used in the title and in the Steinbeck quote that Dr. Harvey-Clark opens with are of the more neutral variety.
"Monster" could mean (1) evil or cruel ("she's a monster when hungry"), (2) of huge size ("a monster of a sandwich"), or (3) something misshapen or unnatural ("that tree grew up monstrous"). The Loch Ness "monster," for example, is more often categorized in the last two- arguably more neutral- definitions, especially when popular conception reconfigured Nessie into a shy, gentle animal.
This is my favorite shark
They are truly amazing
Their ability to smell a carcass from miles away, under water, is amazing.
They've found a Greenland Shark, in Cornwall, England this week
It’s so amazing hearing these animals have such a long life span . I would love it if we could live such long lives , just imagine being around for the development of the British colonies in America? That’s how old these things are …
Amazing
Imagine how over populated the world would be if we did, and the damage we'd do. Better for the planet we don't live so long.
@@shaunmckenzie5509putin, trump and kadyrov for that long? No Thankyou 😂(trump was a stretch but he’s still a wank)
@@shaunmckenzie5509seems like massive cope. Humanity's capability to accept shitty deals is far more of a curse than it has ever been a blessing. If you truly believe that remove yourself from this planet (you know what I mean), one less person means a little less damage.
30:30 the moment!
Great vid -- thanks!
If u had to wait 140 years u bet it gets wild
hahaha i know right?! xD
Lol
Thank you for the excellent mesmerizing documentary.
I love your curiosity and love for this great misterious creatures.👍
Excellent video! Thanks so much.
So very happy indeed these two hard working lads got to experience pay-off for their diligence.
An astounding creature, that I hope continues a healthy population for more centuries to come!
Ah yes, the Sleeper Shark, possibly the largest predatory shark species alive, because they can grow to be just as big as the biggest Great Whites in record, and possibly even bigger thanks to their snails pace metabolism and rate of growth, leading to advanced age and size. I’m genuinely curious as to how large they can actually get if undisturbed.
While, yes, it is in the family of sleeper sharks, the name “Sleeper Shark” is usually only used with the Pacific or Southern types of SS in my experience… still though, it blows my mind that an animal alive today could’ve been born around the time the New World was “discovered” by Europeans….
🤯
@@polytrashed I’m more surprised an animal that large could be around at that time and still be alive. But for any large animal bigger than a person, that kind of insane lifespan is rather unheard of, and is only capable because the Sleeper Shark has an incredibly slow metabolism, one even slower than a tortoise's.
@@decimation9780 strange though , considering most “modern scientists” will tell you the heart has only so many beats until it needs to expire . Maybe they’re wrong about everything nowadays 🤷♂️
@@pandahsykes602 That’s not what happens, our bodies burn up due to oxygenation. Because we breathe oxygen instead of a more inert gas, it in turn reacts with our cells by burning them up, resulting in them being replaced over the years, causing aging as we know it.
They are typically listed as 3.5-5meters long. However, there are anecdotal reports of Greenland shark behemoths 7 meters long.
Edit for additional facts: After I wrote this, I wondered what the longest *official* Greenlander was. Turns out the largest confirmed specimen was 6.4 meters (21 feet) in length.
Amazing video!
I hate it when the music is louder than the narrator’s voice
I simply do not understand that nature-lovers who admire this marvelous species of shark ...and try to catch & kill it. Stop, barbarians , it maybe lived some hundreds years in the iced water and it maybe proves that the future of the longevity-study is in the freezing and cryonic preservation. You can catch some greenland elusive shark for the matter of science, but not for the amusement.I hate thаt dumb photos with smiling hunters beside of the dead rare animal.If you love and respect something or someone - do not hurt and do not kill it!
Shark fishing should be Banned in waters they frequent.. Plenty of other locations to fish for revenue.
as a fisherman myself i was thinking the same thing these sharks should be untouched
@@dylanthompson9617 There are people RAPING the earth and desicrating living beings.
I enjoy Zoology,and watch some in certain nations SPRAY PAINTING cobra's to mimick the seldom colored ones of Africa for video views..
You know it is NOT the folk of Africa, as they respect and take pride in the soil no matter how poor they may be.
These other ones removing shark finn to toss them back are full of the same culture from birth..
They do not give a chyte for anything or anyone else but themselves.
UHG I couldn't bloody well agree more!! I get eneaged when I see big game hunters beside their dead conquest of an endangered animal that prob didn't known they were being hunted thx to the high powered weapons, scopes and the camouflaged hide outs or vehicles they ran them down with!! 😡
most hunters who fish this shark are Inuit indigenous peoples who live in the north of Canada. Who the hell are you to talk bad about hunters who go for this shark, WHICH HAS HEALTHY POPULATIONS. Go hug a tree somewhere vegan
Researchers: get as many footage as you can, this event is once in a lifetime
Greenland sharks: that was nice, you like to meet again in fifty years to see how l finished school?
I hope humans stop slaughterin these poor creatures. They have every right to live in peace
This is so old and the sharks are still a mystery
Magnificent! Hope they will live there in peace without being disturbed by human activity...
Unfortunately they are fished in their most common areas near Greenland. They're turned into "hakarl".
Makes me wants fish sticks for dinner 🍽
@@darklynoon6847 Thanks to people lile you there are less and less fishes...the alternative exist tough...
@@elviw3003 lmao .....get a life .....lol
Fish sticks to eat for dinner for months....
Have you hugged a tree lately? 🎣
@@darklynoon6847 Whatever John. ...bon appetit et j'espère qu'un arrêt se coincerai dans ta gorge un jour et tu vas peut-être changer d'avis...(or if you are only joking,sorry, being sick, not good mood for jokes)...
Vary cool you never no what you are going to see scuba driven amazing
Wow! I have never seen so many mistakes in such a small comment!!
Great footage.
Amazing video
'The Giant Swimming Nose'? LMFAO
I don’t know when this doc was made but I have watched docs where Greenland sharks were recorded on film.
Prior to 2003
Yeah this was made a while ago if they said they've never been filmed or anything haha. I have too.
I thought that, too when it first began..
Those were stunt doubles. Some out of shape great whites with bad hygiene
@Jackson Dickinson Don’t come up in here acting all ostentatious and using words you don’t know the meaning of.
Anything that can live over 400 years on this earth be under water or not deserves respect
amazing
Bravo! fabulous film.
Fishing these sharks is ridiculous.
It's over 50 years before they even reach sexual maturity.
i hope you try to watch this great doc, cause you will get fid of the over bearing noise that some time will pass for music
When was this filmed??
Interesting
Very interesting :)
Music is too loud
Imagine swimming with an animal that size that was born in 1623 and is alive and well. Pure fascination! Ok. If reincarnation exists, I want to be that kind of shark. Go slow & grow old. No hurry, man! ☺️
I've done some whale watching in that part of the St. Lawrence as well when I was younger, we set off from Tadousac. Saw Beluga in the distance and plenty of Minke, Fin and Humpbacks closer to our ship. Brilliant experience it was!
If a Greenland Shark was born in the year 1900 it would only be able to mate in the early 2000s. Talk about a long life of being a pre-teen, and a long life in general. And yes, they take around 100 years to mature, which means that they have the longest maturity rate of any animal I can think of.
I like your video.
I think its a lot more aggressive than people credit it as, its too cold to swim with them, but its been seen to be fast in warmer waters, and it likely attacks seals, with a weird corkscrew attack wound style
They only eat sleeping prey or dead prey. Nothing can eat them as they're as toxic as it gets. They don't mate until they get almost two centuries old. No need for proactive, masculine or ill behaveour for a Greenland Shark.
30:27 Jeffery Gallant's 1st sighting of Greenland shark
33:11 Chris Harvey-Clarke's 1st sighting
What we have learnt in the 18 years since this was shot?
They can get really really old
Greenland sharks are intresting
shark gets home and tries to tell his friends you ain't gonna believe what I saw
5:30 AAAAAAA I CANT STOP WALKING AND TYPING AAAAAAA MY LAND
I think you can find some in the gulf! with beluga’s and whales! but you’ll find other type of sharks!
By the way save our belugas! Please !
6:39 québécois still dress like this in 2022!
6:41 wtf did I just watched madame are you alright?
Him: like when a kid looks for an elephant grave yard than finds it 👁👄👁
Me: sO tHe LiOn KiNg
I photographed one underwater in 2004. Amazing animal, very slow...
Where abouts?
@@katrinakollmann5265 The low edge of the Admiralty Inlet, Baffin Island
@@hemming57 What camera do you use for underwater shots? And how did you get that deep down without drowning
@@active_commenter5348 I used scuba, back then a Nikon F3 HP film camera in an Aquatica Housing
the best shark in the world
The tortoise bowhead whale and Greenland shark live a remarkable long life
There are species of both dolphins and sharks which go into rivers to eat fish. When I was a kid we lived on the Gulf Coast in Brownsville, Texas. The Rio Grande emptied into the ocean on a beach called Boca China...truly a beautiful beach. My Dad always fished with a very long stringer. A fisherman who was fishing in the river did not and a large shark went for his stringer and took his legs. Too matters worse he died because a guy of Western European descent refused to put a man of Mexican descent in his car...terrible thing, just terrible. I’ve never forgotten the event...I wasn’t there but my parents were so upset and I was just horrified.
Grrrrr. That makes me so mad.
That's an awful story. I know it's nowhere near as the same, but when I was a kid, my cat was hit by a car and phenomenally, he was able to crawl back into my house. My mom was at work so I ran to my neighbor. He had to "clean" his car before rushing us to the vet... My cat died waiting. I know it was only a cat, but it hurt me so bad... How dare another human being do this to a human! I'm so upset reading this and I am so sorry for that man and his family and for your family to have witnessed this... :(
Many people have lost their link to their humanity or life beat it out them. It is a very difficult ailment to cure.
Wow this story is incredible to me. I was born in McAllen so Brownsville is 45 minutes away. Insane story. Do you remember when this occured?
I just realized this documentary is 20 years old and full of Québécois
To cut to the chase, 30:43 is when the shark shows up.
You're the real MVP
I would hope that they would make a law that the fishermen release the sharks unharmed when caught for numerous reasons.
That would be cool, but I think the sharks are usually dead by the time the fisherman knows it's in the net... A law making it illegal to sell would be effective. Similar to laws concerning whales. If you're going to ferment and eat it, good luck, but otherwise no reason to catch it.
@@thirstiestvillager9233 very good point, as a sport fisherman(inland) it’s frustrating to see these Asian nations decimating fisheries all around the world. They even go into foreign nations waters knowing that nothing will be done. They are quickly wiping out areas and until they outlaw these practices and out law the sales like you mentioned they will continue to do what they are doing.
30 mins until the first shark?!! At least they got a bit of decent footage...
music is way too loud
It is good that I am only watching this because it looks so cold with all the ice.
Yes my child, yes it's super cool but swimming suddenly in the icy arctic could make it shrink in size therefore it's deviant
Honestly it harmless for the most part you could probably out swim it and it’s mouth not big enough to eat you plus it has no interest in eating you so calling it a monster Isn’t really that true
Why is it a monster ? Its just a large fish minding its own business. Sharks aren't monsters. Humans are monsters .
what are these anomones?
Greenland sharks are the coolest thing in the world they lived up to 500 years they give birth for 18 years and the babies in the bodyGreenland sharks are the coolest thing in the world they lived
They taste pretty good too
Navy never picked up anything on their Sonar?
If i had Kanye money I'd fund hundreds of such scientific expeditions
Why call them monsters in the title?? Disrespecting nature for clickbait
All those sharks are texting each other "Hey! Check out the crazies in our world!"
That's the reason they all started showing up. Ha ha
Congratulations on getting some great shots and being the first to film these magnificent creatures in their habitat. Can't wait to find out more about them.
Those teeth are insane.
Can't even hear them because sound effects and music is too loud, fire your mixer
we get them in Sweden from time to time, they caught one on a rod a few days ago
Sad to see them dead. 😢
never filmed one in the wild alive, I just watched a video with one
Hakarl, that's what the dish is called. Though the meat is toxic, there is a way to prepare it to where it can become edible to humans. 🍽
smelly but very good,and healthy
so these sharks can live to be Hundreds of years OLD
This documentary was made at least 20 years ago
I believe it is not eatable, not sure why you would want to catch one other than a trophy which is pretty lame.
Unfortunately it is, apparently. Go look up "hakarl". :-/
why not put a tracker on it
Tell me it nolonger has that much of stamina anymore
One was caught at Belize
😃
Why do the sharks have those white areas on their noses? Is it a skin condition? A fungus? Some other kind of friendly or unfriendly organism? It reminded me of the white nose syndrome on little brown bats.
The Greenland Sharks are amazing creatures, but it’s not like they’re a regular shark that just lives a really long time. They’re said to not reach sexual maturity until they’re 120 years old, for example. Also, they move very slowly, using little energy and slowing many processes in their bodies, including wear and tear on their muscles and joints, reducing oxidative damage from having less than normal levels of exertion relative to other sharks, allowing slower metabolisms. Every single thing that allows them to live and reproduce seems to be slowed down. If humans lived like that, as children they’d move like 80-year-olds, and probably get slower as they get older. If all the necessary adaptations to live like a Greenland Shark were available to humans, I suspect there would be few takers. Living over 300 years by barely moving would not seem worthwhile, even if a typically vigorous human lifestyle meant dying before age 90. At least it would be a life worth living.
Hopefully with knowledge comes understanding and the overwhelming notion that besides what humans can learn from this incredible shark, most important of all is to leave them the hell alone, and not to taint with our stupidity their path through this world, as we seem to do with anything else.
WAYYYYYY TOO MANY ADS!
It's not nice to call fish monsters:(
Monsters are cool. Fish are cool. Fish are monsters.
Have a grooper open it's mouth towards you when you are snorkeling and then say that they ain't monstrous lolz
@@danlotroth9231 ok, lol, you're pretty right to describe groupers as monstrous
Hmmm.. Why call a nice gentle rare creature a monster?
Do you know the definition of that word "monster"?
That word ruined it imo
Monster sometimes just means big
Why do they keep saying not seen in the wild. Jeremy Wade has swam with one? Was on ITV lol
Because this documentary was from 2003 or something
I'd say we are a threat to them
So in actual fact they have no idea how old it is . how do they know how much it grows when they say they know nothing about it ? . No evidence its even 50 years old really
Very boring, this video was more about the 2 divers Infatuation with the sharks than the sharks themselves. If you don't have much video, then make a shorter documentary.
I was on a Norwegian prawn trawler on the west cost of Greenland summer 1976. Some times we got this big shark in the net/trawl. I do not know if anybody of this monsters lived after we released them.
In 1974 I was together with my uncle in his 40 ft fishing boat. We put the net in the ocean (deep fjord in western part of Norway) - the net was about between 200m and 670 meters. The day after we had a pretty god catch - but there she/he (?) come up... with help of the crane and the winches we managed to pull this monster up on deck. The monster (we call this shark for "Haakjerring") and it is the same as Greenland Shark. It was half of the boat lenght. 20 feet. It was dead on arrival and after we got the shark out of the net we put the fish to its wet grave.
#rekanation QnA .
Jump to 30:30
I remember watching a program were inuit took a whale. As they butcherd it they discovered a stone harpoon buryed in the whale. One old man recognize the whale as one his father knew from 75 yrs ago... ..
That old man had Alzheimer's
Feed the fear.And soon they'll be gone. Before we got to know them. I'd say there are people with driving licences in this film more dangerous.