RARE MASSIVE 6-GILL SHARK SIGHTING AT 3300 FT DEPTH!!

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This six-gill shark (Hexanchus) was filmed during a submersible dive off the northeast coast of Molokai at a depth of 1000m (3280ft). The 2 red laser dots are 6 inches apart, resulting in a length of about 18 ft for the shark.
Great ecstatic live commentary by University of Hawaii Oceanography Professor Jeff Drazen!
Many thanks to Dr. Craig Smith (University of Hawaii) and Dr. Eric Vetter for permitting release of this footage which was obtained as part of their research data set.

Channel: Pets & Animals
Uploaded: January 18, 2008 at 6:18 am
Author: HURLSubOps

Length: 00:01:17
Rating: 4.91
Views: 566460

Tags: shark deep sea Molokai submersible submarine

Video Comments:
wwwabc123456de (November 18, 2008 at 3:24 pm)
oh-ha!
Demonrider01 (November 17, 2008 at 7:42 pm)
People it's not a Megalodon. That species was estimated to be about 60-100ft long. FAR larger than the shark shown here.

There is a famous picture out there of 3 of 4 men standing INSIDE the jaw of a Megalodon. That would make its head much larger than 1 meter wide.

Haydenfroop, your a fool. Please try to do some research next time before you tout something as "pure evidence". You obviously don't know what your talking about.
HeyHoLetsGoGuitar (November 17, 2008 at 12:59 am)
and then the butterfly walk through the sky aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
AMP1317 (November 17, 2008 at 12:37 am)
People it's not a Megalodon...
It's a Six Gill shark... That's the official name for them (correct me if I'm wrong)
Now the rare part is that it's huge!
Love the video, but I don't want people thinking it's a Megalodon. They where a lot bigger! And aggressive!
haydenfroop (November 16, 2008 at 1:24 pm)
its funny, cause if you whatch those videos with the drawings of Megaladons you have all those comments saying its fake and its exctint. On this video all i see is " Holy shit! Megaladon! " no surpirse seeming as in this is pure evidence of there existance.
matthewbyrne720216 (November 16, 2008 at 1:06 pm)
Omg it is a fucking megaladon.....

dude that as fucken big:O

Oh shit i cant belive that 95% of earths water is not explored so there could be anything out there.
ayen3022 (November 15, 2008 at 11:01 am)
Megalodon!
C00lix (November 11, 2008 at 8:43 pm)
Thats one proof of megaladon :) that was fucking huge Shark!
deckspinner (November 11, 2008 at 5:23 pm)
I've just got an adrenalin burst watching this.
AMP1317 (November 10, 2008 at 10:56 pm)
AWESOME!
I love sharks, I definatly agree... We should start conserving them because we kill more of them, than they do of us.
Also, more people have died by getting hit in the head by a cocnut then by a shark...
But this video was incredible! It definatly shows us *cough**cough* scientists, that there are a lot of other animals in the ocean we havn't discovered. They brush it off like, "It could never be possible" but how can you say that with 95% of the worlds ocean undiscovered?