Rare great white shark in Mediterranean near Spain
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MADRID (AP) — A Spanish marine conservation group says it saw a great white shark in Spanish waters in the Mediterranean Sea, a rare sighting.
The Alnitak-Conservation in Action group posted a photo on its Facebook page of what it says is a 5-meter (16½-foot) great white shark that its researchers spotted Thursday near the Balearic Island of Cabrera just south of Mallorca.
https://www.facebook.com/alnitakmission/photos/a.663523880385196.1073741828.663494343721483/1962438627160375/?type=3&theater
The group says a great white shark as not been spotted in Spanish waters in nearly 30 years.
Spain’s Ministry of Ecological Transition, which handles environmental policy, could not verify the sighting. NVG
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