Giant Great White Shark Eaten By MONSTER Mystery Finally Solved

Let's dive into how this great white shark eaten by a monster mystery was finally solved!

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[YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen]

If you want to jump to the answer, it starts at 25:05.
All that comes before is, in my opinion, interesting but far too long drawn out.

[babyrazor]

Hey I remember this story. Thanks for bringing it back. What ever killed the shark didn't have to swallow it whole, it just might have just bit off a piece which had the tracker attached to it.

[Kysushanz]

I and a friend were surfing in the early 1970's at Clifford Bay NZ. We had "long boards", not the skimpy little things you see these days. I think my board was 8 foot. Anyway, we were lying on the boards paddling out to a point break about 300 metres offshore on a dull overcast summers day. Suddenly my mate sat up on his board, turned, was on his knees and paddling back past me to shore and as he went by, he quietly said "shark". I didn't really comprehend his message and I dozily raised myself up on the board to look eyeball to eyeball with a huge Great White [he looked to be twice the size of my board - but hey, it was big]. I froze and watched him as he watched me and he gracefully moved without any effort, through the crystal clear water about a board length in front of me. We kept eye contact until he got so far across from me that he flicked his eye back to the front and continued his quest for fish that may have been disoriently by the surf - so I presumed. I got up on my knees and paddled that board right up onto the beach! We opened a couple of bottles of beers and drank them down with the froth we had made from our shaking hands!. I haven't been surfing since then; in my 70's now and don't think I ever will be back on a board! When you see just how powerful these creatures are, how with only muscle rippling they can move through the water, you realise that you are in their domain and there at their pleasure.

[shicrapt]

This is like a movie project that was sent to Netflix and stretched to 12 episodes.

[viktorbirkeland]

"How much misinformation and fearmongering would you like me to add?"

*_"YES"_*

[striderlife]

"There's always a bigger fish."
-Qui-Gon Jinn

[minyasylvanas]

The tagged shark Alpha was 2, 7 meters long (9 feet), which is less than half the size of the largest great white shark ever recorded (7 meters/23, 5 feet).
Sharks are famously opportunists and can perfectly well decide to be cannibalistic if hungry enough.
They can also dive very deep, especially larger specimens dive to lower depths than the smaller ones.
To reiterate the size difference between the tagged female and the largest recorded great white;
Shark Alpha was half a meter (2, 7 feet) longer than André the Giant, and the largest specimen was 1, 2 meters or four feet and change longer than the tallest giraffe recorded (George, at 5, 8 meters/19 feet)

[nhlfjwn]

Killer whales eat sharks
No one said that the shark had to be eating whole or the tag had to be eaten in one bite

[stevenhudson]

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure, It's built on fraustration. it's built on fear that you have to overcome. I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life

[Riceball]

A 16 foot Great White is not exactly abnormal, Great Whites are known to grow up to 20' in length. Granted, 20 footers are very uncommon these days because they've been hunted so heavily in the past, thanks in no small part to the movie Jaws, but they can grow that large. So a 16 footer, while quite large for a Great White these days, is hardly anything abnormal.

[larryrepoza]

Around 40 years ago, I was having a conversation with a retired fisherman whom at one time had also captained the URI research vessel out of Narraganset RI. I asked him what the strangest thing he had ever brought up in his nets was. He initially told me left over torpedoes and such from WWII. There is still a sunken U-boat off block island to this day. So, I said to him I was interested in strange sea life. His response was a 25 foot long, 5, 000-pound great white shark came up in his net once. It was 1 mile off Charlestown beach in RI (Block Island sound). At that time, I didn't know that great whites usually didn't exceed 16 feet. After all I grew up with Jaws lol. All these years later I hear about megalodon and ever since I cannot help but be suspicious that he had in fact caught a young megalodon. They cut it up and tossed it overboard if I remember correctly because there was no market for that type of fish then. His catching incident happened approximately 80 years ago as it happened about 40 years before he told me the story. He was in his 80's at the time of the conversation. This a true story. It was a pity he hadn't taken a picture of it.

[edcliffe]

Penguins! Giant, mutant penguins ate the shark! That MUST be it.

[SuziQ]

14-16ft is a normal size of a Great White they are considered big after that, The largest recorded was 23 ft with 20 ft GWs seen regularly 50 years ago now they are very rare.

[youtubeleavemealone]

I've seen a 9 foot shark attacked by a 12 foot shark, then get chewed to pieces by 6 others after being incapacitated by the first big bite. I've seen feeding frenzies with several different predators competing for pieces of the victim. Perhaps a giant squid grabbed the shark & dove with it, as they would, then some other sharks followed it down to try to get a piece of the pie, and one of them ended up with the tracker.

[Borkomora]

never been so thankful for the "most replayed" timeline thing.

[vernalc]

Soo, take what seems like a fantastic, mysterious riddle and turn it into a 30 minute story filled with crazy theories about a "Jurassic Park" type explanation is certainly ONE way to go...

[cathpounder]

Around Australia and Guadalupe Island most of the great whites that are tagged tend to be between 11 and 18 feet in length so a 17 ft great white seems less likely to have gigantism and more likely to be an adult of average size. Shark Alpha was just a very unlucky juvenile.

[robynsineadsheppard]

I love how you can take what seems like a simple question and trace it back to show how what seems simple turns out to be quite complex. Best of all, you make it quite entertaining.

[joshuaschury]

So after all the rambling, they still do not know what exactly ate the shark lmfao.

[Kozoku]

A rare moment when YT recommendations has failed me. This video should've been 5 mins at the most.