Great White Shark 1 Deadly 60 Bites

'On Deadly 60, I've had loads of incredible animal encounters.

'Here's just one of my many favourites.

'This is Deadly 60 Bites.'

Whoa!

I'm heading to the shark-infested waters of Africa's southern coast

on the hunt for a great white shark.

They're the largest purely predatory fish on the planet

and this is the best place in the world to see them.

The best way to get shots of these animals

is for me to get in the water with them

and use this underwater camera.

We've got sharks, we've got visibility,

and this is going to be out of this world.

At first glance, the coast is clear.

Then, almost out of nowhere...

..the first shark cruises by...

..closely followed by a second.

Soon it feels like I'm surrounded.

This is unreal!

The water's like crystal. Amazing visibility.

And there's two huge sharks just circling around

and around and around, making passes at the bait.

It's phenomenal.

The size of them, the elegance of them.

But they are very, very sinister-looking animals.

This is better than we could ever have hoped for.

The great whites are truly displaying everything

that makes them deadly.

That's the difference!

That's when they come up almost vertically.

A shark went right down, very, very low in the sea bed,

but all the time keeping its eyes on the bait,

and then just came straight up vertically.

Wow. I've got to stop saying, "Wow."

HE LAUGHS

Whoa!

That is just extraordinary!

You can see as the shark comes in,

its eye rolls back in its socket to protect it,

just in case there's the teeth of a seal

waiting to go for that eye that's really vulnerable.

The great white is one of the largest predators on earth,

but these are only about three metres longer.

The biggest have been double this size, over six metres long.

I can't even conceive of a great white that big.

There are some animals that just seem

to totally rule their environment.

They just have this aura of invincibility about them.

Oh!

That was extraordinary!

Almost completely left the water.

Oh, and bashed the cage on the way through as well.

It's not just one of the most ferocious animals on the planet now,

it's one of the most ferocious animals that's ever lived.

Ohhh!

We've had perfect sea conditions, terrific visibility,

and the closest, clearest views of this iconic beast I've ever seen.

We are all totally blown away.

Oh, my goodness!

What we haven't seen is a mindless killing machine.

This animal is far more intelligent than that,

and for that reason alone, it has to go on the Deadly 60.

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