To tourists, the Mediterranean has never been much more than a benign swimming pool, but below the calm surface is an ocean ecosystem with over 45 species of shark.
“It grabbed Jack Smedley and had no intention of ever letting him go.” The words of British Fisheries scientist, Ian Fergusson, on the last minutes of one of 18 fatal attacks by sharks in the Med. Together with Fergusson’s research, eye-witness accounts and reconstructions of shark attacks, Equinox proves the existence of a great white shark community in the Mediterranean... and their meal of choice.
American researchers emphatically felt that great whites lived exclusively on seals – so if there are no seals, there should be no great whites...
