The silvertips are the one with the white edges on the fin, and there're also gray reef sharks and some hammerheads off in the distance.

RP Silvertip sharks they're actually three species of sharks here.

We have white sharks and blue sharks.

He's a great white shark.

Diver 2 Uh, silvertip sharks.

We can save the white shark.

Ooh, look out. Here comes a big one.

We're often all frightened of sharks thanks to Jaws.

This is a Great White Shark that ate some of my traps.

So in this case, Sal's looking at two tags there, and there they are the white sharks of California going off to the white shark cafe and coming back.

A recent report has found that industrial longline fishing has contributed to the decline of oceanic whitetip and silky shark species by 90 99 percent in the Gulf of Mexico.

So, imagine a great white shark and a giant squid in the same bathroom.

And now with Google's Oceans, we can actually put a white shark in that ocean.

When I was nine, I saw the movie Jaws, and thought to myself, No, thank you.

At night you can see what happened in a second in daytime, we call them land sharks.

Shark!

And then finally to basically get the message home maybe use live links from animals such as blue whales and white sharks.

Shoot one of those sharks, it'll keep the others occupied.

I don't want to got there, there are sharks there.

And because I love sharks I'm somewhat obsessed with sharks I wanted to do another, more celebratory, story about sharks, as a way of talking about the need for shark conservation.

And there are sharks.

Man Bites Shark

Number of sharks

Shark proximity

Number of disks

Number of gears

Dark red

Star speed

Sharks.

Now right next door in Monterey and up at the Farallones are a white shark team led by Scott Anderson there and Sal Jorgensen.

And what you're trying to look at is the males have claspers, which kind of dangle out behind the back of the shark.

Well one obvious source is dead sharks, Dead sharks washed up.

So what we've done is actually gone up to tag salmon shark in Alaska, met salmon shark on their home territory, followed them catching salmon and then went in and figured out that, if we take a salmon and put it on a line, we can actually take up a salmon shark This is the cousin of the white shark and very carefully note, I say very carefully, we can actually keep it calm, put a hose in its mouth, keep it off the deck and then tag it with a satellite tag.

And as the shark came round, it would hit the net, the net would collapse on it.

the lifeboat or the sharks.

At 17.00 first shark was spotted.

Recognizing further the economic and cultural importance of sharks in many countries, the biological importance of sharks in the marine ecosystem, the vulnerability of some shark species to over exploitation and the need for measures to promote the long term sustainability of shark populations and fisheries,

And I went to the island of Bimini, in the Bahamas, to work with lemon shark pups.

And I was particularly fascinated with sharks.

Sherman's up in shark heaven.

The notorious Golden Grotto sharks.

Yeah. All you'll find down there are sharks.

The Convention s memorandum of understanding on shark conservation, which lists seven endangered species, has attracted 35 signatories so far. Next month, representatives from these countries will meet in Quito, Ecuador, to discuss extending the list to include the great and scalloped hammerheads, the silky shark, thresher sharks, sawfish, and mobula rays.

This is the oceanic whitetip shark, an animal that is considered the fourth most dangerous species, if you pay attention to such lists.

And I flew over a lagoon with a shark in it, and that was the day that my comic strip about a shark was born.