That's disappointing.
The Great White.
Over 10 million years old.
And still a mystery.
To understand it, you've got to catch it.
That's a hooked shark.
Wow, look at that.
Expert anglers Chris Fischer and Brett
McBride Team up with renowned scientist Doctor
Michael Domeier.
Their mission - to tag and track a rare and
vulnerable predator.
Oh, that's a bigger one.
We're gonna go big or go home.
They'll need an unmatched mix of skills...
Drop the cradle.
Tools...and guts.
Up, up.
Expedition Great White 1x01 Feeding Frenzy Original Air Date on June 6, 2010
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Here it is.
Here it comes.
Coming aggressive.
Wants it.
OOHHHH.....
That was the right angle and everything.
Yeah she wanted it.
She quickened a little bit there.
She's gonna eat it.
Yeah, I don't see her.
She's looking for the bait up by the
float because that's normally where it is.
Coming our way, coming our way, yep.
High.
Very high.
OOHH there it is, wow.
Come on baby.
Take it.
Getting a nibble?
There he is.
I'm bit, guys, bit, bit, bit.
Fish on!
Fish on.
- It came off - ARRGGG DOMEIER: No
he's still there.
He's still there.
Good, good, good.
There he goes.
Shark.
It's a big one.
Two balls down.
Yeah, buddy.
There she goes.
She's got two floats down.
Ha, ha, ha, yeah baby.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
With the great white hooked on the line -
Doctor Michael Domeier stays aboard the mother
ship.....
Shark Patrol.
While Chris and Brett lead the chase
to wrangle the giant, and bring it back.
So it's holding down a 50-pound ball right
now.
It was just a few hours earlier that the
team tagged and released their sixth great white.
Look at its eye.
Holy cow.
15 feet long, this male named Seamus has
the latest long-term tracking device secured to
his dorsal fin.
All the tags are on Doctor Domeier?
That tag's on really good.
They record every detail of the shark
and secure new long-term satellite tags to track
its movements for up to 6 years.
Adios amigo.
That's what I'm talking about.
Nice job, Doc.
For Doctor Michael Domeier,
the boat's hydraulic lift sets their scientific
efforts apart from the rest.
This ship can pull the biggest adult
white shark we can possibly catch right out
of the water.
Once that shark's out of the water,
we can do things that have never been done before.
On Seamus, Doctor Domeier collects
his first blood sample from an adult great white
male.
He can't draw it with a needle so heollects it
from the hook wound.
Almost got enough.
He then analyzes the blood as an
important step to support his suspicion that sharks
gather at this island to breed.
The concentration of the
reproductive hormones are going to allow me to
determine if the white sharks are mating at
Guadalupe Island or not.
If true, it will be the first mating
site ever identified for the species
The white blood cells down there,
up here is just the plasma part,
the part the hormones will be in.
But Domeier needs blood from mature
females to help prove his theory - and so far -
no luck.
Could this newly hooked great white be the one?
You see that son of a rippin?
Whoooff!
She's turned away now.
Co-Captain Jody Whitworth and adventurer
actor Paul Walker join Chris and Brett in the
chase boat.
I hope it's that monster.
Let it go.
Don't take any pressure.
Just let the line go because we don't want to
straighten out that hook.
He's got three balls under right now. Right?
He's got two and a third one
bouncing up and down.
At this stage in the battle they deploy
a system of buoys to do two critical things:
create drag on the animal to help break its
will...and lift the shark to the surface -where it
can be safely towed back to the mother ship for
tagging.
But this powerful great white isn't going with the
program.
Geez Louise.
Look at that thing bouncing.
Oh we're going slack here real quick.
He's turned around.
The thing's coming at us.
Yeah, we're going slack here real quick.
She wants to come up and say hi.
Oh there's the other one popping up,
up there, she's taking it under again.
Aw, she's pissed.
Neutral.
Cutting toward it.
Oh, there's the other one.
Holy cow.
Oh, there's the third one.
Whoa.
Did she come off?
Yeah, she's off.
Line's, line's going straight out it.
She's off.
It's off?
Yeah the line's going straight out.
There's the cable right there.
Look at that, Brett.
Booyah.
Broke the hook man.
Still too much pressure on the shark.
You know with the drag like that - how much power
that is?
It was just the buoys though.
That's major power.
Yeah, Mother Ship Ocean, fish is off okay.
Fish is gone.
So apparently he got off.
That's a bummer.
Usually when they hook solid they don't come off
unless they bend the hook.
Good chance it was that, that monster,
that big female we saw off the back.
To break that kind of tackle.
That was a monster fish.
That was bigger than anything we got so far.
That was an amazing demonstration of power.
Pulled hard that's for sure.
The one that got away.
CHAD When the gear fails us, that's the hard part.
You work so hard for every little step and then a
gear failure is the ultimate slap in the face.
That sucks, man.
Losing a shark isn't the day's only
frustration.
Some unexpected guests arrive.
Mexican authorities.
Armed and ready to board the ship.
With fresh bait in the water,
Chris and Domeier are caught off guard.
You want me to put it away while they're over
there so we don't catch a shark while we're here.
What if we hang one?
They'll come aboard and they're going
to see the hook.
We hang one, we hang one, I mean that's what we're
here to do.
OK cool.
OK go get your permit and get ready.
They're going to give us an ear full.
When the expedition team set sail
from the Mexican mainland for Guadalupe,
they had their permits in hand.
But 160 miles out at sea rules are less certain.
So, you're always worried even though you
have all your paperwork and even though everything
is in order that the next guy who's gonna come check
on you is gonna tell you your stuff's not in order.
Unease spreads as the soldiers fan out.
You know it can be quite intimidating when
there's big guns around and masked people,
you know.
What in the world's going to happen here?
And the one guy rolls in with his gun and he's got
his mask on.
One of the most, like intimidating guys on the
boat and one of our mates Brandon walks over and
he's like "any of you guys want a cigarette.
And the guy who was the scariest guy of all is
like "yeah" and he just pulls down his mask and
starts smoking a cigarette.
I was like, 'Classic.
We're good.
Anytime they come you just kind of, I don't know,
you clean up.
And I said to the guys, like, hey,
man if you want it and we have it you can have it
you know.
You need some food.
You need some fuel.
Whatever we carry so many supplies on the ship.
necessita mas bebidas?
gasolina?
Agua?
Comeda?
Tequila?
Muchachas?
No muchachas.
No tenemos este.
And so the guys they left us and they cruise off
heading back to their Navy station.
Alright, that went very well.
Very well.
I'm excited about how that went because it never goes
that easy.
Ever!
And then they turned around and came back like,
oh here they're coming back, like no,
I knew it went too well and the guys cruise up
here and they're like "Do you guys got any limes?"
I'm like. Yes you can have evey lime you want.
And we gave them a bag of limes
And they took off and went away.
Time to get back to the business at
hand...Their bold mission to understand and protect
one of the world's most mysterious creatures,
the great white.
I think it's really important that the
public knows that sharks occupy a very important
niche in our marine ecosystem.
They are predators, they are the garbage men,
they do a lot of things that no other fish do.
If we lose sharks, our marine ecosystem's going
to change and it's going to change for the worse.
Though Domeier and Fischer share the
mission, they sometimes differ on how to hook a
Great White.
I would I'd throw it on.
Whatever.
I'd put that piece on.
I don't want to bury the business end of
the hook.
Yo, feed her this.
We need more meat on the hook.
There it is right on the bait.
Right on the bait and that's not a small,
small one.
It's still a big, big, big fish.
Oh my, oh my, oh my,
have we had our chances today.
Not over yet.
No, no there's the shark right there.
That's a monster shark right there.
Deep.
That's a, oh, she's turning hard on it.
She looked hard at it.
Yeah she did.
The shark passes and Chris grows
impatient.
I would suggest more meat.
But.... If we don't get bit, we don't got nothing.
So stake it on.
He's not, I'm going to wait and let him
continue to struggle for awhile until he loses his
patience and then I'm going to pile them on the
hook and chuck it when he quits.
He'll give up in a little while.
You got to give it something that it really
wants.
Something that's like worth the effort.
After almost an hour and a half -Chris
steps in to do it his way.
I'm just going to do a little simple pinning
of bait right now.
My theory is to make it look so good that it has
to eat it.
It's worth the little bit of risk that doesn't look
Sometimes when they don't want to bite you got to
give them something they can't resist.
I'm already bit.
Yeah he got it.
That's why I did it,
right the there.
Ah there you go.
Tell me when the, tell me when buoys ...
Yeah, right there.
Came off.
Well I'm not sure he, I'm not sure he came off.
No way.
Still got bait.
She's right behind it.
She wants it.
Can't see her now.
She's gonna take that again Chris.
She's takin' it again, look at that!
There, she's got it.
She's runnin' forward.
Heads up, heads up!
Heads up!
Woah!
Look at that!
The, buoy!
Now we got the other rope!
WOW!
Look at that.
Wooooo!
Buoy!
It's a big one, dude!
That's the bitter end, Brett.
Oh no.
Oh, no she's still holding down buoys.
No, no he's got it he's going, there he goes.
We might not want to...
Buoy!
Still on?
WOW!
Wooo!
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Stay clear.
Yeah Baby!
The game is on - again.
That's what they think.
Okay, what we wanna do is make sure we
get those buoys behind her and make sure we don't let
'em, we keep 'em clear of the ship.
She's coming around.
The fish, the shark's going that way.
Oh, she's turned away now.
Yep, no, now she's turned directly away from
the boat.
Good.
The battle's just started and this
Great White is already giving the guys a run for
their money.
Holy cow!
Look at the buoys getting pulled through the water!
OH MY GOD!
I hope the hook holds.
I just hope the hook holds.
Yeah.
Look at the pressure!
I don't know what's going to break next but we're
either going to find out or we're going to get this
one.
Two buoys down.
From the upper deck the doctorhand
deckhand Whitey Evans witness the strength of
this animal.
Three buoys down. Oh, came back up.
Strong fish.
They hope it's the monster-sized female
they've been waiting for.
This is the kind of shark that can kill ya.
Early in the expedition a bad engine
forces the team to use the inflatable as the chase
boat.
And again, they find themselves within biting
distance of a great white in a motorized balloon.
But Chris is more focused on how they hooked this
great white.
Nice, man.
See we fattened up that hook, bro.
Did you see everybody turned their back and we
stuck that giant tuna on the hook and we hung this
thing.
That's what I'm talking about.
You called it there didn't you?
Oh I don't know.
Could have been just lucky.
Probably experience though.
Shark expert Doctor Domeier
knows great whites more than most.
He's compiled a database of almost 100 sharks at
Guadalupe.
He ids them based on their gill slits,
pectoral fins and tails as well as their color
patterns.
Could the shark on their line be someone he knows?
She's coming at us.
Yeah, she's stretched out good.
Here comes the other buoy to the surface.
OK fish is coming up.
Another buoy's up.
They start replacing fixed buoys with
sliders - allowing the buoys to glide down the
line closer to the shark.
Okay, sliders in front, sliders in front.
Feed 'em another one.
Right behind you there.
Once we got the shark tired out a little
bit, you add a little more weight,
or a little closer, buoy to his face.
You can bring him up higher in the water
And then at a certain point you make a decision.
Okay, now that looks like the shark's already,
he's really tired right now.
Let's go ahead and slide some buoys to him and
really break his will.
A docile shark is the ideal for the
scientific operation.
For the first six years of his shark research,
Dr. Domeier partnered with well-known angler and
philanthropist Tom Pfleger.
Together they tagged 73 white sharks with
satellite pop-up tags.
These tags are programmed to eventually disconnect,
float to the surface and transmit data to a
satellite...
sometimes they are actually physically
recovered, providing information on swimming
depths and water temperatures.
Information gathered from these tags opened the door
for the use of the new precision-location spot
tags.
Ultimately, my research program what I
really want to achieve is to understand the entire
life cycle of white sharks.
We've only gotten bits and pieces from the tag
technology we've used in the past.
Domeier's new satellite devices will
track the shark's migration in near real
time for up to six years!
He believes these tags will help solve the great
mystery of where they go and why.
Once we learn that,
we could help put together a comprehensive management
plan to protect white sharks year round.
But the task at hand is getting this great
white to the mother ship.
Coming, coming, coming.
You got that blue one there?
They worry that large great whites can
overheat from exertion.
Woah!
It's a delicate balance to tire a shark
without harming it.
I take it very seriously;
making sure that I do my job properly and let all
the sharks go healthy.
Where's the shark?
She's going under the boat, under the boat.
Back away, back away.
Oh, she's right there.
Yeah, okay.
Do you feel like the fish is still super green?
Or do you have any sort of feeling for that at all?
PAUL AND BRETT: Naw, She's tired.
She's tired.
I think as soon as they get the lift
and if it's coming over the side now
I think we'll try to flip it and swing her in and
we'll need to focus right now on making a plan to
get this off our stern.
Yeah.
Under Domeier's watchful eye,
they lower the cradle into the water.
Once in position they'll guide the shark onto the
platform and into their hands.
Throughout the day, the ship's team has seen
plenty of action in the clear waters below.
DAVID There's multiple big sharks down there.
And we're going to catch them all.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Trying to just jam those buoys right into its
face.
Lift the shark, break its will.
And then it will just come up and it will be over.
That's what it would happen on the small ones.
Yeah she's ready, let's deliver it.
Alright here we go,
okay we're going to try to make a giant circle right
into the lift.
Just like the previous ones.
She's in good shape here.
Yeah, we're ready for you.
Domeier guides the cradle deeper into the
water.
Okay, let's go down Johnny.
WHITEY We're ready.
As they near the mother ship,
the shark grows agitated.
I like coming in at that angle a little
more too, cuz...
Steeper?
Yeah, so, forty-five.
Look she wants to go in.
Hold her tight, hold her tight.
Can we take her there?
I don't know if she's high enough.
She's not high enough.
She's not done.
If the shark's not high enough
it could slide under the cradle.
and sever the line.
The animal could be lost.
The mother ship's team has the best angle to see
what's going on.
How deep does she look?
How deep?
How deep does she look?
About three feet.
Three feet deep?
About three feet.
They're both saying three feet.
Still head down though?
Right?
Right side up?
Right side up.
Not, not fatigued enough to be laying on her
side.
They pull back from the mother ship to
re-gain control.
Brett, you want me to come back there and
take a wrap so you can lean down and work?"
Yeah, I will in a second.
I just want to, I just want to ante her up
without pissing her off at all.
She's so close."
Brett reworks the buoys to get them
closer to the shark's head.
You don't need them all down there,
Brett.
Just one.
Pulling on the fin side of the carabineer.
Take a wrap, I'll see if I can get my second hand on it.
Slack.
Don't get your hands caught in there.
Loosen a foot.
Nice job, fellas.
It does the trick - the bouys pin the
shark near the surface.
I like it a lot better now, Bretett, uh?
So much better, yeah.
Rollin' on the side a little.
Best to take your time and make sure you
fatigue a monster like this.
The Great White gave it's best shot.
but now seems resigned
but the team itself is shocked.
It's not a giant after all.
Looks like a little one.
I don't think it's the big one they thought
it was.
It was like a normal size here.
Normal size for a great white is still
easily 14 feet and they think this one's a male.
For Dr. Domeier every great white provides
important clues for unraveling the species's
life cycle.
Look, she wants to go in.
And this shark's story is about to
unfold.
Let her go, let her slide back if you need to.
- Get that - Slow it down.
Give it slack.
Give it slack, Brett.
Slack, slack, slack, slack, slack,
slack!
That is, that is perfect.
Up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up!
Keep coming.
Perfect!
I got it right here.
Perfect landing.
CREW Let's go.
Okay out of gear, Chris.
C'mon guys.
That's good, Johnny, right there.
We need the tape measure off the chair.
We're gonna get a measurement right away and
then we're gonna tail rope it better.
They know what to do and how fast to do it.
The first thing is to irrigate the mouth and
gills to keep it alive.
Watch the nose of the shark.
Somebody get that water in, Brett.
More hose.
There we go.
They'll still need to get the shark back
into the water within twenty minutes to ensure
its safety.
Nice.
Nice job getting the hook out there,
fellas.
But the shark isn't watching the clock.
She wants to start moving around
Whoa!
CREW Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Ooooh.
WHITEY Get out of there!
Keep your face, keep your hands off the
snout if you can.
Make sure that she is getting irrigated.
CREW MEMBER It's a boy by the way.
Yeah, it's a male.
It's a boy by the way.
Yeah she looks good on both sides.
Boy that was, that will get your heart rate going.
CREW Alright, let's get going on the...
WHITEY What do we got on this one here?
We'll remove that,
that's from me from a couple of years ago - from
a pop-up tag.
Oh, one of your, you've tagged this fish
before?
Yeah I've tagged it before.
Very interesting to see which one this will
be.
Unlike the temporary pop-up tag,
they'll bolt this new long-term satellite device
onto the shark's dorsal fin.
Are these tight?
Can I cut 'em?
BRANDON Yup.
This is the highest point on the
shark.
When the shark breaks the surface and a satellite is
overhead, the shark's position can be
identified.
They also collect tissue from the drill bit.
Its DNA will help determine how sharks are
CREW Yeah.
Here comes the tape up there, uh, Paul?
Yeah.
It's likely humans have never touched
this guy and he doesn't like it.
Okay, see, she wants...as soon as I touch
her tail, she wants to start getting going.
Rich, Rich, Rich, Rich.
This is exactly, you know, this isn't shocking,
and that this thing is pissed.
This thing fought like that.
Jody tries again.
He needs to measure from the tip of the nose to the
fork in the tail and from the nose to the tip of the
tail.
As soon as I touch her tail...
He's trying to kick.
Okay...oh, just don't touch it!
Just measure it.
He wants it, he wants the measurement!
Guesstimate it!
Guesstimate it.
No, measure it!
Just measure it!
CREW Go, go, go, go, go, go.
Don't do what's making it kick,
just measure it the best you can.
174 DOMEIER: Okay, okay, now tie a rope,
tail rope it.
Yep, 174 there, Jody?
Yeah.
160 and then 174.
At 14 and a half feet,
he turns out to be good sized after all and
Domeier's anxious to see if he's here to mate.
This is a mature male.
Running ripe!
Mature male what?
It's a mature male,
the claspers are calcified and there is sperm in the
groove.
So this one is here for a reason.
That's right there.
Claspers are the male's reproductive
organs and great whites have two of them.
Sperm in the groove.
That is awesome!
That is the right clasper, is it also in the left?
Uh, I don't see it in the left one.
And they are calcified?
Yep, calcified.
Sperm only in the right clasper.
The sperm further supports Domeier's
theory that Guadalupe could be a breeding ground
for great whites.
And let's check for any blood coming off
this fish anywhere where I can get a sample?
I don't recommend the business end there.
No.
Wanna try the tail again?
This is the one that's nasty,
but we do have it tail roped.
You could get on this side over here and the tail
could not come at ya.
Irrigation looks great.
Tag's almost on.
How 'bout a time
check there, Jody, how long has the fish been out
of the water?
Six minutes.
Good shape.
Hook location, Brett?
Corner of the mouth,
corner of the mouth.
Which side?
Right side.
Right...right corner.
Dr. Domeier attempts to reach the
shark's primary blood supply to the tail - the
caudal vein.
No easy task.
Unlike humans, a great white's veins are buried
deep by several inches of skin,
muscle and tendons but Domeier's needle hits the
target.
Oh, I'm getting blood!
Nice Doc!
Oh Doc, you're getting good blood there,
that's the best we've done!
Ever!
This is a first for the Doctor - drawing a
blood sample directly from a great white's vein.
Nice job, Doc!
Oh that's great!
Great spot right there!
Got it!
That would be great if we could do that
same thing on the female.
Look, right in the crevice.
Right in the crack of the tail.
He knows right were to draw the blood now.
We have plenty of time, fellas,
we're only at about eight minutes and we're down to
what you all are up to.
As they finish securing the satellite
tag, Domeier grabs his camera to document the
shark's physical details.
In addition to the gill slits,
pelvic fin and tail, additional details will be
added to Domeier's ever-growing database of
individual sharks.
Look at the scar right there.
Massive scar from battling with his compadres.
Domeier thinks males may be fighting each
other here to establish mating territories or
possibly battling over individual females.
How are we looking on the irrigation there,
Brett?
Good.
Time, Jody?
She's been out of the water 12 minutes
Nice job, Dave.
Are we done with the data board?
Look at the difference in height
though we're getting this tag compared to last year.
Much higher. Right at the very tippytop.
Okay, everybody who can start easing off.
We can start easing off.
Alright let's do it.
We might have a little movement here,
with ya just a second with Jody.
Everybody off that doesn't need to be on here.
Alright, it's out, it's clear, everybody out,
get the towel, get the towel off him, Brett.
Everybody clear.
Wait, Brett.
We ready to go down?
Down, Down.
Down.
Was out of the water 17 minutes.
It's a ripe running male.
Ripe running male.
Just like you though we might find.
He's ready to go already.
GROUP Alright.
He's moving right out.
Didn't exactly take the easiest route, did he?
Beautiful.
Nice job, fellas!
Another one, nobody's hurt.
Nice work.
Way to go.
Combing through Doctor Domeier's database
they identify this shark as Skid.
Not only did Domeier put a pop-off tag on Skid five
years ago, he's been spotted at Guadalupe every
year since 2002.
With his new statellite tag Skid promises to open
up many more chapters in Great White history.
Now what Domeier really wants is blood from a
female.
Reefed on that one, bro.
Hey,et's get a bait in the water man,
There's one under the boat right now.
There it is right there.
That's a pretty big fish!
Well, a lot of times when you see
information about sharks today,
you get this sensationalistic stuff
about "white sharks eat people" or "sharks are
dangerous" you know, but what we're doing rght
here is real.
This is real science; trying to solve the puzzle
of the white shark; figure out these multi- or
complicated migratory routes;
figure out where they breed, where they feed,
where they pup.
We're coming in, we're bringing more bait.
Bringing in the whole dodo?
We're bringing in the whole dodo.
Anxious to land a true giant -the
scientist and the fishermen resume their
debate over bait DOMEIER: Well I wouldn't,
I would not, I'd put, if you want to put another
bait with dorado okay, but I wouldn't swap that out.
Someone told me they came out here with dorado,
they wouldn't eat 'em.
They've been using a "bonita "- a type
of tuna -but Chris wants to drop in a full dorado
fish to see what happens.
Look we're not going to scare this thing
off by putting it in, right, just for a minute?
See if it just wants to inhale it?
You're going to put on a different,
a different hook?
No, I'm going to just put a big chunk,
a big pile of meat like in...
Well that's got a bonita on it, right?
Two bonitas.
Oh, so you're okay.
Suddenly something below makes the
decision for them.
Well stand by, something's pulling it
under.
That's a nicer one, huh?
Oh, yeah, he's got it.
We've got it.
We gotta get, I'm going to over and get the boat,
I'm going to go get the boat.
CREW Woohoo.
I need someone else in the skiff with me.
This is the big, big, big one.
Having already faced the Mexican navy and
battled two great whites....they are more
than ready to wrangle the biggest shark yet in this
very long day.
We've got to get to the last buoy and we've
got to swing it clear of this vessel.
David Olson saw it face to f ace DAVID That
is huge.
It's mammoth.
Yeah, that was a monster one right there.
I gotta go get in the boat.
That's the big one.
Going for the big one. It a party fish, man.
That's right.
We're good.
In the excitement,
Captain Brett reminds the team to stay cool.
Alright, nice, and take it easy on this one.
This is the one we want.
It makes the trip.
They saw it eat.
This is the one.
Yeah, Johnny called it a whale.
Johnny goes; I think that's a whale that just
ate that thing.
And this massive great white wastes
no time flexing its muscle.
Oh, the buoy out there just went kerplunk.
Oh, oh, there it goes.
Let him just tow us, we can do this.
Yeah, let her work herself out.
Let her tug on those buoys a little while.
Oh, it's starting to come up.
Whoa, yeah, let him have it.
Let him have it.
Let him go, let him go.
Last buoy coming out.
Some doozie.
Yeah, that's a whole 'nother level right
there.
That is too cool right there.
That was sick.
That's Jaws.
Yeah.
The shark changes tact.
It moves toward the surface causing the buoys
to pop back up allowing the great white to burst
ahead.
That was full Jaws,
all buoys waking away, still waking away.
It's all part of the team's buoy system
designed to wear down the biggest great whites.
Alright, it's coming our way.
But this one's testing their limits.
Let her go.
Just keep a little tension on it.
This is definitely the hardest pull we've
had.
See if you can pull 'em in, Paul.
I'm trying.
I'm pulling.
Well you can start pulling anytime, man.
...It's okay to put a little bit of pressure on
the shark now.
Okay, wheel man.
Go ahead and keep your hands dry and keep your
feet dry, you know.
Be ready for any sort of explosion.
Hey, Mom, look at me.
As the skies grow darker it's time to
get the sliders on the buoys.
Two on.
The sooner they get them tight around the
shark's face the sooner they can bring her in.
More slider coming behind you, Paul.
Yep.
The bitter end, you want to switch out
with this one?
Three on.
We need to carry one more buoy
Four on.
I'm going to apply a little power and
reverse.
Chris backs up the boat to help force the
buoys down the line.
And Brett gets inches away from the great white to
move them even closer.
They're all in the tank.
Wow, move back.
It doesn't get any closer than that.
Right in her face, I like that a lot.
I think the best thing to do is for me to apply
power, you allow her to slip away from us and I,
we spin the boat.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
I'm just slowly letting her go - give you a chance
to spin since it doesn't spin real fast.
The shark seems to have calmed down or has
she?
There's her tail again.
The hooked shark gets more
aggressive...and Chris spots a problem.
I hate to do this to you,
she looks like she wants to come in backward.
She just keeps fighting us back over that way.
Can you just have the divers remove the gate?
Switch the gate.
Bring it up!
We've got to pull off the ladder.
WHITEY What's that?
You want to flip that line over there?
The fish is setting up
on the wrong side of the boat.
Was like before we had to
remove our end gate and switch it over to the other side.
CREW There's the chain now.
No matter which direction a shark enters
the platform, the gate has to be at the opposite end
to keep it from escaping.
This is a strong shark for sure.
How long are we on this one?
44:50.
Ooh.
The funny thing is, is that once we pretend
like we know what the shark wants to do;
she does something entirely different every
time.
We're 50 yards from the slip.
Tell me if you, any time you want me to bail out;
you're going to have to call it pretty soon.
Looks good this time, Chris.
Okay, here we go, I'm gonna just try to
swing it in.
She's got both fins high out of the water.
Do not let it sound.
Okay.
Fins are, both fins are out of the water.
Both fins are out of the water.
We've got to pull her into the cradle.
She's too far over, she's too far over."
GROUP Up, up, up, up!
Cradle up.
Cradle up CHRIS: Up, up, up.
Slack, slack, slack, slack.
Up, up, up.
Perfect, perfect, perfect, perfect.
Way to go!
That was butter.
That was better than the last one.
CHAD That was way better.
Okay, keep going, Johnny.
Look at the bites on her side.
Whoa, look at that thing.
It's got scars all over it.
You timed that perfect.
That was so money.
The team gets down to business.
Get that water in its mouth.
We in?
Yeah.
How's it coming out that gill over there?
Good?
CREW Yeah, you've got good water flow.
We're going to start with the DNA
samples.
We're going to just take them right off the dorsal
fin this time.
Save some time.
WHITEY Who has the drill?
Don't worry about the drill.
We're going to do this first.
Hold that.
Open one.
There's one.
It's in.
Give it a shake.
Here's another one.
We got fifteen more minutes.
Okay, perfect.
Okay, Jody, what was our fight, fight time?
One hour and five minutes was our fight.
189. 190.
CREW 190 overall.
The great white's monster-sized at
almost 16 feet.
Is it the female, Doc?
Big female, yeah.
WHITEY She's got a crook.
Oh, she's curled over.
Domeier's seen this distinctive droopy
fin before.
It's Keiko.
It was photographed by Tom Pfler in 2002.
He's concerned about the effectiveness of his
tracking device.
Will her damaged fin even break the surface?
I'm wondering about this tag.
You know this fin is bent over.
So the, how well it fins is going to definitely be
a little affected by that bend.
But tagging mature females is critical
to Doctor Domeier's work -he'll go for it.
She's six minutes out of the water.
What we've learned in our studies at
Guadalupe Island is that the males come back every
year, but the females don't.
They only come every other year.
What we don't know is in that odd year when the
females are not there where the heck do they go?
We have no idea.
Domeier hopes these new tracking devices
will ultimately reveal where these females go
when they leave Guadalupe Island.
And when we get that information back,
we have just advanced our knowledge of this species
tremendously.
How's the irrigation look, Brett?
Good.
Water coming out of that one good,
getting some out of this one.
I'm switching them in a second.
Hook location, Brett.
Corner of the mouth.
Left side.
Hook removed.
Yep.
CREW Hook out.
Take that.
Got the hook out, fellas, good job.
They securely bolt the satellite tag to
Keiko's less-than-perfect fin so it won't come loose
over the years.
Now Domeier is ready to draw some blood.
Alright, blood from this would be a
really good thing.
He goes for the same area on Keiko that he
did earlier on Skid.
The caudel vein that runs to the tail...
but Keiko's vein remains elusive.
Can't get blood.
Yeah. it's very disappointing.
Domeier has yet to successfully draw blood
from a mature female a key element for
determining the mating season.
With the clock ticking -he needs to move on.
Naw, blood ain't going to happen.
Alright, let me get my camera, take my pictures.
Keiko is ready to go now.
Go guys, look out, look out, look out.
Look out!
Holy moly!
How big...
Hop over, hop over, there you go.
You got me trapped a little bit here, Jody.
No, I got you.
I'll watch you.
I'll pull you out.
Eleven minutes out of the water.
Keiko is the perfect candidate for
Domeier's research.
They'll need to catch many more females like her to
find out where and when they mate.
She may kick a little bit when I do this.
Dr. Domeier attaches a seconday pop-up tag to Keiko.
The technology in these tags
has also advanced.
Nice.
Perfect.
These tags are essentially miniature computers and
they collect all kinds of information about where
the shark is going and what the shark is doing.
It's like a back up for our spot tag.
He's still hopeful the long-term
satellite tag with perform on Keiko and that he can
follow her path for years to come.
Time, Jody?
Got 12 minutes out of water.
Like to be done in less than 5 minutes if we
can, fellas.
Good job, Chad, good thinking.
With time running out - they pick up speed
to finish up.
She's at 18 minutes.
Do you still need to get blood or you get it?
It's on my stick holder.
Bleeding but just not enough blood.
They're disappointed but to keep
Keiko alive - they need to get her back in the water
now.
Okay, everybody off, so you're going to have to
help, we're going to get to the nose here,
we're going to get this hose out,
we'll get the hose out.
Are you ready to go?
She's starting to move her tail.
Stand back.
She's out.
Hose is out.
Everybody off, everybody out!
Everybody off.
Get off.
Bring the hose up whoever gets up there
first.
Everybody off, she's going to hurt
herself.
So are you taking her down, Johnny?
Down, down, down!
She's right behind ya.
Come on, let Keiko go for a swim.
I don't like that gate over there sitting the way
it is.
He's kick, she's kicking, she's going to be fine.
Like she just burped.
Do you want them to stop it there?
That's good.
Stop.
Keiko is taking her time - the team grows
concerned.
Might need to touch her.
Okay, she's starting to move her tail now.
Maybe poke her in the tail.
- She'll go - Go in there and just give her
a little tap on her butt, send her on her way.
Hold this, hold this camera.
Camerman David Olson puts his life on the
line to help her go free.
I think if she feels that there's no
weight under her she'll start to swim.
thing.
Dave can you push her?
Can you push her anymore?
You want me to push her off?
Yeah, just get her head over it.
Come on, Viking power, there she goes.
Is that good.
That's good, Dave, that's good Okay.
Oh, yeah, she's kicking now.
She's kicking her tail.
There she goes.
She's wagging her tail.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh she's kicking away strong.
CREW MEMBER: Good deal.
Right on!
Okay Johnny up, up, up.
She's gone now.
She swam.
Nice job Doc!
Keiko's been spotted at Guadalupe three
times over a seven-year period.
They suspect her extensive scarring resulted from
being stuck in a shark cage in 2002.
Today two more sharks are safely released.
The male Skid and the female Keiko.
Her signal is picked up after 4 days but only
transmits a few locations.
Her droopy fin probably has trouble breaking the
surface.
Skid takes 3 days to check in and sends a precise
location about a week later.
He has been sending in regular updates ever since
and has traveled hundreds of miles into an area
called SOFA, later returning to Guadalupe.
For the team, there's much more to be done.
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