Prehistoric six-gill sharks make their home in Puget Sound | Oregon Field Guide
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- One of the world's largest sharks has taken quite a liking to a busy Northwest bay.
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I was an active diver in Puget Sound around 1980 and it was not known to inhabit our waters at that time . I was doing a night dive where we went offshore a good distance and dropped down 60' and challenged ourselves to navigate our way back to shore using depth gauge and compass with our lights off . When a fish would swim by they would disturb the plankton which would leave a glowing trail . One night I felt a presence go by me and turned to look and there was a very large amount of disturbed plankton . A few years later they found a dead six gill shark next to a ferry dock . It was hit by the prop and I believe that was the first one recorded in Puget Sound .
Damn nice 🙂😶 I love sharks
that sounds TERRIFYING
Cool
I think I creamed to your story dawgie
What's a "prop"?
My horror turned to happiness, although my dry suit almost ended up wet.
In 1994, I was doing a dry suit check out dive with my instructor, Eric Marks, at 3 Tree Point in Puget Sound. We swam out to a mooring chain and proceeded to descend. Puget Sound is known for poor visibility so I used my light to illuminate the chain and my gauges. By 60' it was almost black. As I kept my light pinned on the line something appeared to come directly towards my light. 2 seconds later I was face to face with JAWS. Needless to say I was ready to make a rapid ascent but when I turn around and look at my instructor he signaled me to follow him. I was petrified as he began to swim, directly above the slow moving shark. As a good diver...I followed my crazy instructor. He grabbed his pencil and wrote in his dive slate 6 '11. The shark seemed much bigger to me and I couldn't figure out why he was trying to measure it. I was afraid I was going to become fish food.
The massive and slow moving shark descended beyond the range of our lights. We ascended and returned to shore. I was happy to be alive and perplexed by his behavior.
I asked Eric why he wrote 6'11 on his slate... he laughed and told me he wrote 6 gill.
OK then... I just had a shark week worthy moment with a Six Gill shark 🦈.
I ultimately became a Divemaster and have over 500 logged dives around the Pacific Northwest.
Eric and I are still the only divers we knew to have seen this tremendous shark in the wild. Quite a dive and memory.
A few years ago a 14ft. female 6 gill was trapped in a tidal pool by Allen Wa. in the south sound. She started giving birth before the water dropped. People carried the pups to the water and let them go in the water.
that's amazing
They should have took the mother shark back in the water to😢
You can find them at Les Davis pier (Tacoma, Rustin way) during the summer at night (10pm-3am typically). Every night fishermen accidently (or intentionally) hook them, then release them (catch and release).
these and greenland sharks and honestly all of the 6 gills creep me the absolute hell out. mad appreciation for the dive team and all the effort that goes into such a terrifying task! you couldnt pay me enough to do this!!!
These sharks don't attack people and are endangered species.
INCREDIBLE video on my favorite shark. This is so exciting!! Thank you so much for sharing this footage as the world continues to discover more about such a special species.
Redondo beach in Washington is a good spot to find them, saw one today at 95 ft deep
I saw 2 today as well at Redondo doing a night dive. One male and one female also at around 100 feet. Was one of the best dives I ever did.
A little bit north hear Hornby Island six gills are fairly common in the winter when the water nearer the surface is colder. Saw a couple of them around 125 feet down back in the mid 90's.
Thank you. Really Interesting!!!
These sharks are beautiful and ancient! Greenland sharks can live over 500 years..born when the Aztec empire was thriving..wow!
Dog fish are sharks too.
”Simon and Eric has DIED with sharks all over the world”😂
Beautiful animal!❤️
"''🎵🎵🦈🦈Hello Seattle, I am a sixgill shark..."🎵🎵
7:38 .. sorry I had to 😂😂
I live in tacoma and worked on puget sound on tugboats all my working life. I have always been fascinated by sharks even long before jaws came out. I wish they would have said where in the south sound this was. I have always believed that great whites frequent puget sound. There is an abundance of food for them and I really can't think of any reason they wouldn't be here. Its certainly not to far morth. We are further south than Paris.
According to my biology teacher adult great whites are seen off the coast in central Oregon. They mostly eat salmon and maybe the sea lions. Apparently fisherman see them all the time.
How can we say they no longer existed when the oceans are still unexplored that's science for you they always have all of the answers ,right or wrong
I love it they went out of "ping" range. Their secret shark lair and happenings. 🦈 Their eyes are almost claymation- like. So 😎.
Can't you use camouflage tags instead of bright yellow? Ruins their stealth .
Save the sharks
12 feet is big, but they can reach lengths of 26 feet.
Learning that these sharks average around 16-18 ft long hits different 😐
So these sharks have every right to live and they should not be killed just because you hate them, I bet you hate whale sharks and basking sharks because they are more larger then six gills.
@@ghostshirt1984 WHAT?! Where tf did you get that from 😂 I’ve actually made a documentary on shark finning and whale sharks are included in it :)
How do they deal with broadnose sevengill sharks?
Form a group and don't let down your guard, I saw a video where a group a divers were surrounded by a pack of Broadnose Sevengill sharks, despite their size, Broadnose Sevengill's are potentially dangerous to humans.
Glad he could afford to buy a place with so much room. All the rest of us on The Peninsula are stacked like sardines into a single house while he gets to go 6gilling around like a total shark. Lil sun uva b
Has one ever been observed at the surface?
Only at night, and adult Bluntnose Sixgill Shark was seen at a depth of 259 m in the Philippines.
Existe el.megalodon..pero.no se ve los enormes cornillos
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All sharks are prehistoric.
ummmm no
@@waterenjoyer7850 All sharks evolved prior to human history and are therefore all prehistoric.
This is old news they discovered the 7 gill shark down in San Francisco pssshh 6 gills ain't shit