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This appears to be a white shark, Carcharodon carcharias. Too bad.
comment# 1 - MJS · USA · Mar 5, 2008 @ 8:54am

It's not a Great White. Look at the teeth. It's either a mako or porbeagle shark.
comment# 2 - Nathan · Pittsburgh, PA, USA · Mar 5, 2008 @ 9:35am

looks like a white shark, should they not be protected in the Mediterranean, like they are in Aus, US and SA
comment# 3 - ANDY T · SCOTLAND · Mar 5, 2008 @ 9:43am

Looks like a short fin mako
comment# 4 - ST · USA · Mar 5, 2008 @ 9:56am

Most likely a white shark. Top teeth showing do have classic white shark triangles. Definitely not a mako.
comment# 5 - Chris · Phoenix, AZ · Mar 5, 2008 @ 11:27am

That is a great White , seen lots of them and thats one...shame!
comment# 6 - richard scott · Australia · Mar 5, 2008 @ 1:17pm

Amazing a 1100-pound shark is caught and they take crappy pictures of this beautiful animal. Just hope that shark was not a female.
comment# 7 - Jorge · FL, USA "shark bite capital of the world · Mar 5, 2008 @ 6:56pm

I agree with Richard it is a great white looks alot like one.... BYE~
comment# 8 - Alyssa · Howdy Ya'll, TX · Mar 5, 2008 @ 8:03pm

It is not a white shark, it's either a Make or a Basking shark.
comment# 9 - Tex · USA · Mar 6, 2008 @ 6:09am

Basking Shark??? Eye's too small for Mako and fins not right. It's a white. Bad picture though
comment# 10 - Noobs · SA · Mar 6, 2008 @ 8:51am

its definetly a whithe shark. actually the waters off tunisia in the siilian channel its THE hotspot for whites in the mediterranean sea, and there have been many spectacular catches over the years there.
comment# 11 - nickolas · salonika -greece · Mar 7, 2008 @ 8:37am

Its a loan shark good riddance.
comment# 12 - Mr Ind ebt · sucksville · Mar 8, 2008 @ 10:19am

where have you ever seen a basking shark with teeth like that? are you blind??
comment# 13 - scott · ny,ny · Mar 10, 2008 @ 1:19pm

Why would you kill and cut up such a beautiful fish!! That's so horrible.
comment# 14 - kelly · CA · Mar 10, 2008 @ 9:38pm

Hello , could you please tell me where does they find this shark exactly ,in each region exactly in tunisia ,cause i'am really terrified ,and that's is the first time that I Know that white shark exists in our Beaches :( thanks for he feed back , regards , tunisian girl .
comment# 15 - imen KHANNOUSSI · TUNIS · Mar 19, 2008 @ 9:25am

that aint no shark its a giant herring
comment# 16 - phil · norn iron · Apr 12, 2008 @ 2:07pm

AWESOME CATCH.But it's not a mako not a loan shark not a basking shark or a porbeagle shark it is a Great White Shark dude.C:
comment# 17 - Derrick · Atlanta Georgia · Apr 13, 2008 @ 5:24pm

Hey,nice catch,but there are bigger one than that out there!!!!!!!!!!See fo yo self!!!!!!
comment# 18 - Tamara · Vardaman,Mississippi · Apr 17, 2008 @ 4:18pm

Wow, I cant believe that there is a shark that big off the coast. Now I am afraid to go in the water. Do any of you know where it was caught?
comment# 19 - B Mejdi · Tunis, Tunisa · Apr 30, 2008 @ 7:52pm

i m sure that's a white shark;and i've seen many of them in northern tunisian sea (bizerte;tabarka). my advice is: be carefull ! and don't swim alone in the large.
comment# 20 - med marouen · tunis tunisia · May 8, 2008 @ 12:06pm

Not a White Shark, neither Mako or Porbeagle, and of course not a Baskin Shark, That's a Dusky Shark, very ussually in those waters.
comment# 21 - Jose Esteban Infantes · Spain · May 8, 2008 @ 3:45pm

Actually its a whale shark, ok? you guys are all idiots!
comment# 22 - james · africa · Jul 3, 2008 @ 9:17am

Actually the biggest white shark caught in Tunisia happened 5 years ago in the golf of Tunis 6,5m long they had to cut it into 2 to transport it. The great white is attracted by the transit of the tuna between Tunisia and Italy. Meeting great white on the Tunisian coast is rare. So don't worry guys. I’ve been swimming so many time far away from the coast, the biggest animal I saw was a group of dauphins.
comment# 23 - Zied · Tunisia,,,Emirates · Jul 7, 2008 @ 4:55am

thats notthe biggest great white ever caught in tunisia. thats crazy! our beaches are not safe anymore. take a look http://www.worldandi.com/newhome/public/2004/january/nspub.asp
comment# 24 - ISSAM · USA · Jul 11, 2008 @ 6:31pm

its a bass fools
comment# 25 - brett · south africa · Jul 16, 2008 @ 2:52am

that is no way a white shark looks like a sand tiger shark 2 me
comment# 26 - nif77 · england · Jul 29, 2008 @ 7:10am

wow this is for sure shocking. my husband is from tunisie and he was certain there were no sharks in their beaches. we have tons of them here in the alabama coast. all i know are shocked~
comment# 27 - amykeigh jabnouni · usa · Aug 2, 2008 @ 12:55pm

That is a BEAUTIFUL FISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
comment# 28 - Dustin · Minong U.S.A · Aug 4, 2008 @ 5:19am

I have to agree with NIF77 Looks like a Sand Tiger. Deff not a great white!!!
comment# 29 - James · Canada · Aug 16, 2008 @ 2:43pm

it is a great white as there is no other shark that has those teeth and fins so back off you lot of noknows
comment# 30 - harry munday · england · Aug 21, 2008 @ 9:48am

no question a great white. easy to tell even with crappy pics
comment# 31 - fatpood · nashville usa · Aug 21, 2008 @ 7:38pm

That is a Tunafish that might have been caught on Halloween Night----- " Trick or Eat "
comment# 32 - Deepdiver · Tonga Isles · Dec 13, 2008 @ 3:29pm

it is great white so guys have look,remember they are every wher so dnt mess around
comment# 33 - yesser(ire/tun) · ireland · Dec 29, 2008 @ 11:57pm

I saw, a big one last summer in kelibia coast when I been diving with my friends. Thank's God he did not attack us. Also we had a boat close. Next summer I will not go so far any more. Just be away from the large and don't play around.
comment# 34 - chak-attak · Ireland / tunisia · Dec 31, 2008 @ 5:13am

wow what a gold fish we have ones like that here in ireland
comment# 35 - winky mc crudden · kildare town ireland · Jan 20, 2009 @ 11:03am

Its a great white ,the dorsal fin is located to far down the back to be a mako and the jaw span isnt wide enough to be a tiger nor is the coloration right & that fish doesnt way 1,100. pounds either, Im a Marine Biologist, so sorry for you mako fans
comment# 36 - Michale Harrison · Daulphin Island USA · Mar 3, 2009 @ 11:32am

nikolas you're wrong the mediterranean is warm so that's it does not have any sharks cause sharkes can only live in cold water trust me im from on algeria and it's coast is the mediterranean and ive been ther the water is warm no sharks (or maybe in tunasia the mediterranean is cold so sharks do live there but most places don't)
comment# 37 - Nadjlaa · Walnut Creek,USA · Mar 3, 2009 @ 6:50pm

pic 2 looks like a greatwhite shark but pic one with the teeth does great wgite have much thicker triangular teeth that dont curl back while the teeth in pic one do curl back making it not a greatwhite when looking into the size of the animal it only comes down to three choices in this region (1. shortfin mako 2. porbeagle 3. blue shark) now porbeagle and mako are of the same family to great whites so there is similarities but porbeagles dont tend to reach the size of even a youngster white shark while shortfin makos do plus mako has the slender appearance as in pic 2 but young great whites probably do to but the defining point is the curling of the teeth what mako has and white sharks do not plus great whites of the med have a brownish colouration to the length of the back done and got finger cramp lol. thnxs
comment# 38 - jason · england · Apr 7, 2009 @ 8:03pm

While sailing from Marseille to Tunis, after the detroit of Scicily we saw a White shark from our Ferry. It was one of the most amzing things i'had ever seen. Now I believe about sharks being along Tunisian/italian beaches.
comment# 39 - Maher · France · May 31, 2009 @ 5:40pm

everyone automatically associates any shark they see with great whites because they don't know a damnt hing. this isn't a great white. google great whites and look at the jaw difference and body difference. this is most likely a mako.
comment# 40 - youredumb · your moms house, US · Jul 14, 2009 @ 12:22am

defently not a great white, looks moe like a mako from the shaoe of teeth and the pointed nose and eye posistions. the end of the shark doesnt look like the end of a white shark either, to thin and the fins are slanted the same as a makos.
comment# 41 - Joel rawlin · England · Jul 31, 2009 @ 3:14pm

just to inform u guys on the 19 /10/09 fisher man had to kill agreat white shark as he get cough in to the tuna trap he was big one 5 mtr long and huge so remeber today the great white its all over the world where ever there is blood u will find him right there (tuna,human,turtel,,,,,)
comment# 42 - buco · Tunis, Tunisia · Oct 20, 2009 @ 7:22pm

tht is awsome lol is it warm there
comment# 43 - jordan · england · Jan 29, 2010 @ 4:58am

Definetly a WHALE!!!
comment# 44 - hi · hi · May 13, 2010 @ 4:12pm

Its a Great White.
comment# 45 - Jordan · Asia · May 13, 2010 @ 4:13pm

thats a realy nice shark there i hope to catch one one day to
comment# 46 - tyler · springfield ohio · Jul 16, 2010 @ 3:38pm

why, do you people doubting that is a GW?? It can't be more obvious than that even with those bad pictures!! Tunis and Libya coast/gulf is full of them,as is Adriatic around Croatia islands and coasts.They are trailing the food,which is mainly TUNA catches and fisheries.Any commercial tuna fisherman can attest to that.We must learn to live along with these animals
comment# 47 - tommy- commercial fisherman · crete,greece · Aug 9, 2010 @ 1:25am

this is not the record, the people who khnow omar gonbari are sure that we can compare this little fish with the giant white shark who has been catch with the legendary omar gonbari
comment# 48 - majdi · Bizerte · May 29, 2011 @ 2:28pm

It's amazing how crappy the photos are. A single clear photo which showed the teeth would determine this accurately, but the teeth aren't really visible in the head shot. It does look like a mako to me, though. Big makos have wider teeth, and this is obviously a big one. White sharks have a sort of abrupt colour change from dark to light, while this shark has a gradual counter shading like that of the mako. On the other hand, it looks grey, while the mako usually looks a bit blue. The dorsal fin looks small, and makos have small dorsal fins (compared with great whites and porbeagles). It's far back, but that could be an artefact of the angle of the photo. It's certainly either a great white or a mako.
comment# 49 - JaM · Copenhagen, Denmark · Jul 12, 2011 @ 1:54pm

Totally agree with JaM. from Copenhagegn. Very hard to tell. Seems to me from the pic that the snout is of a mako and so are the teeth. However, I think it's more common for a carcharodon carcharias to be in that area than it is for an isurus oxyrynhus. My guess is it's a mako...
comment# 50 - Gerry . · Athens, Greece · Sep 9, 2011 @ 2:18am

Salve a tutti potreste cortesemente farmi sapere la località e la data dove è stato pescato e inoltre se avete le misure dell'esemplare. Vi ringrazio anticipatamente. Robertoshark63@gmail.com
comment# 51 - Roberto · Roma Italy · Jan 23, 2012 @ 4:44am

yo,i am a fishermans daughter and i KNOW that that shark is a rare (1 in 5 million) hybrid of a mako and great white. I came across one of these creatures when i visited australia to stay with relatives i went scuba diving in the reefs and my cousin told me that there was an injured shark that would always stay at one part of the reef that was genetically tested and was a new species that was a hybrid of a great white and a mako. Trust me i know what i am talking about, hope this helps :)
comment# 52 - coolperson550 · sousse tunisia · Apr 14, 2013 @ 8:34am