I’m just a guy who watches shark vids on RU-vid, but I’m pretty sure that’s a basking shark. The dorsal fin of a Great White usually looks a bit sharper. Hard to tell if it’s a white belly or an open mouth scooping plankton but the dorsal fin does not look like a white shark.
It is a basking shark filmed in Paspebiac Quebec on the Baie de Chaleur. There were a couple of them that hung out in that area for a few weeks a couple of years ago. The shark, while large, is harmless and feeds on plankton.
This little guy is named Brunswick & he’s a great white that’s been tracked though the east coast of the states up to the st. Lawrence, you can even go online and track him!
Thank you for being intelligent. All of these other people just spurt out their opinions when they probably have no credentials to be judging the species.
This isn't the St. Lawrence and it isn't a great white. It was filmed in Paspebiac Quebec on the Baie de Chaleurs and is a basking shark. There were a few basking sharks hanging out in this are a few summers ago and this is one of them. A big shark but harmless.
@@gerapau066 well my friend who took the film would disagree and the tracking data shows Brunswick frequents the st Lawrence even if this was taken the year before he was tagged
This guy is Named Brunswick and he is a 8 1/2 ft great white, he is tagged and you can see his tracker live on my Fins & Skins Live Shark cam and Jazz Stream: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eNfc6O2nJlo.html
Its a damn Basking shark filter feeding for plankton, the white belly that someone of you saying you can see for a split second is just its mouth open. You guys really need to know your sharks before posting crap like this
1:07 pause it there an have a look you can see the the mouth (no where closes as large as a basking Shark), you can see teeth (far larger than the Basking Shark), and behind the mouth a white belly that is called a White Shark if you still don't believe that then go jump in the water with it and find out. (I don't need to I'm not blind)
The dorsal fin shape is all wrong for a white shark - their dorsal fin is very pointed at the apex. The basking shark is much more rounded, as in the video.
"There are several shark species found in waters off Newfoundland and Labrador. The blue shark is the most common and commercially valuable of these species, however other species such as the Mako, Greenland, Basking, and Porbeagle sharks, have been assessed for their commercial significance in recent years." from fisheries Canada. not sure why people are so shocked to hear about sharks in Canadian waters. This doesnt really look like a great white to me but either way its a decent sized shark and pretty cool to see
@@poopoo_peepeeman3001 because i felt like telling you. Its still in canadian waters just because you think sharks cant swim from east to west doesnt mean other are as naive as you
How far inland was this shark, I live on the St Lawrence, I know Greenland sharks have been observed in the Larry, but not very far inland. This looks like a basking shark to me.
@@isaacrocksyay Most Canadians are racists, that's why they don't accept that the river is ours, even though it's on our territory. Anyway, it will officially be ours on day 1 of our independence, as it was before we were invaded. The international law allows us to keep our actual frontiers. Fuck the queen, by the way.
you might be right ryan I wasn't there to say for sure but my buddy was pretty adamant that it was a great white. Awesome event regardless, and thanks for commenting ryan brother!
Ghostly Jenna I actually don’t know much about sharks, but I knew a bit about this, because so many people keep claiming the ones in the St Lawrence as far as Kingston are either Great Whites or Bulls, because those are the two most “known” names. And I’ve researched about the ones in our fresh water river a few times to find the truth. But to look at shark in open waters of another area, I’d have no idea.
Ryan Voll I don’t think a Greenland shark . Greenland sharks are usually pretty old looking and have multiple species leaching . I don’t see any signs of that . But is possible. Either way a very large shark.
i was shocked to find out that every October a lot of great whites stack up in the gulf of St Lawrence! they leave in early November out passed newfoundland.. and head on down south by Dec they're in warmer waters!
Honestly it could be either species the only true defining feature would be the nose in this case and it's very hard to tell. With the sudden disappearance of white you may assume it a basking shark closing it's mouth. Or a the camera angle. But the dorsal fins of a great white and a basking are about the same and years of wearing down can lead to them looking identical. But either way it's just about harmless if either species
its a great white shark his name is brunswick and hes tagged for scientific research and he wasnt in the river he was in the st lawerence gulf in the laurentian channel, not attacking you personally im just saying in general this videos description and title do not do a justice for describing this video theyre acting like its swimming up fresh water into canada but its not its swimming the east atlantic coastline basically
@@nyx7031 actually no, it's clearly not a great white. The dorsal fin is too wide and the wrong shape, and not to mention that huge open mouth...clearly a basking shark 🤭
Sorry, but this is clearly a BASKING SHARK! The dorsal fins of great whites and basking sharks are very different. Basking sharks' dorsal fins are wider and have a nearly vertical back edge with no inward curve, whereas whites have a much move pointed dorsal tip with an inward curved back edge. Also, that huge gaping mouth...pretty obviously a basking shark. Might want to change your title and stop confusing people lol
Sup sup Kyle not a promotion but a friend sent me this when he was fishing. Uploaded it a while back but now everyone's interested because of shark week go figure.
Good call, the fins didn’t look right and there is no way a great white would be this far North, it’s waters are just too darn cold for Great Whites. It’s still odd to see a basking shark here, so that is still neat to see.
well considering one of the largest great white sharks ever caught was in Canadian waters off the coast of P.E.I then i would say that yes on rare occasions great whites move up north. its rare but it has happened....as for this video though....i agree its not a great white lol
Okay I'll be grabbing this video!!!! and clearly showing you guys the huge difference between a basking shark!!! and a White!!! first off a Basking shark does not have a snout pointed like a Dart!!!! and by the way at one point the wifey and I clearly see the Beast almost smiling at the camera under water and for a second you see the shape of those dagger like teeth!!! and a basking shark has no teeth at all!! I'm telling you all right now this is not a good sign!!!
@@ghostlyjenna its not lol greenland have very short dorsals look at the size of that fuckers not only that they wouldnt surface like that they like the depths.
@@YourPalDrewski i watched a documentary on greenland sharks in the st.lawrence, they are there, but that is with a doubt a great white shark. which is not only very rare, but pretty damn unnerving too
@@austinbehunin6731 hi Austin! It is true that Greenland sharks do frequent the st Lawrence river but this great white is named Brunswick and you can track him online and he was in the river for sure!
Wow, this is amazing footage & that definitely is a great white, not a basking shark. Not the right shape, size or fin. Also has a very white belly like a great white. Super cool & that was in the St. Laurence? I know there are a couple being tracked in NB, NL & NS.
These idiots trying to say this is the 8 foot great white named Brunswick that’s tagged … there is no ocearch tag on this shark it would be on the dorsal fin .. clearly there’s no tag.. this shark is as big as the boat .. Brunswick is only 8 foot .. this shark is huge and girthy .. the mouth is wide open as it approaches the boat because it’s a basking shark .. which spends its days at the surface mouth agape feeding on plankton .. the dorsal fin is always identifier as it is big and floppy .. a white shark has a sharper angled dorsal that not floppy .. please stop embarrassing yourselves
Isn't that river fresh water? Great White sharks don't want anything to do with brackish waters or freshwater! The bull is the only one who will travel into fresh! I live in Louisiana and we have Lake Ponchatrain and it's brackish water and we get bulls and some hammerhead sharks but the Hammerhead only comes into the lake in the winter which is when the lake has its most salt content but the whites stay in the deepest part of the Gulf of Mexico and they won't travel anywhere near freshwater outlets!!!!
The guy posted this video is a moron. It isn't even the St Lawrence river. It's the Chaleur bay, which is full marine. And the white shark tagged by ocearch called Brunswick that he claims this basking shark is was tagged 2 years after this video. The shark Brunswick must have time traveled.
@@YourPalDrewski I think salt water starts at around Tadoussac and the river gets really wide east of that. Just past Rimouski its very wide and you can look like the ocean. You aren't that far from the gulf by then. If Greenland sharks are found that far in, I am not surprised if a "great white" or a "basking shark" can be found. I'm no expert so it's all interesting and new to me.
