The guests on the neighboring sea safari boat begin to giggle at the shocked expression of one offshore seal when it abruptly raises its head above the water.
For this reason, a group of scientists has chosen to start their hunt for the first great white shark to be seen in Irish or UK seas at Great Blasket Island in County Kerry.
A significant number of grey seals call it home, but is anyone coming for dinner?
The US non-profit research group Ocearch is cautiously hopeful about the possibility that great white sharks are present in the waters surrounding Britain and Ireland.
Great Whites could have been present in the British or Irish seas for decades.
dotted with unverified reports of sightings and the odd hoax.
Great white sharks inhabit the Mediterranean, where there is a small and threatened population. It is believed that these sharks may migrate to the eastern regions of the North Atlantic to feed along the beaches of France, Spain, and Ireland.
As far north as the Bay of Biscay, where a juvenile female great white was captured off La Rochelle in 1977, there have been verified sightings of great white sharks.
