Shark Gordon Episode 12: Shark Attack

A shark encounter in the middle of the ocean, miles from land is most people’s worst nightmare, but for Ian Gordon, the shark man, life doesn’t get much better.

Ian Gordon takes us along for the ride as he helps launch a shark research programme on the Pacific Ocean’s Midway Atoll, which has been pretty much off limits to all but government and military personnel since World War II.

There is no mistaking the Pelgic Thresher shark with its incredibly long tail and ability to leap from the water.

At about 3ft (0.9 metres) long the unusual looking Port Jackson is not the most dangerous shark in the ocean, but possibly one of the more fascinating.

Shark Gordon® presenter Ian Gordon prepares to get up close and personal with his first Prickly Shark, a mysterious bottom-dweller living at Pacific Ocean depths of 300ft (92 metres) to 1300ft (400 metres), well beyond human reach.

Shark Gordon takes us to an underwater mountain top in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez for the annual school reunion of one of the most bizarre looking sharks in the sea – the Scalloped Hammerhead.

The Great White Shark is finely tuned to kill and here, as a seal falls prey to this deadly hunter, we see one technique that might turn you off surfing for life!

No other living creature has evoked such fear and awe as the Great White Shark. This episode explores the exciting travels to the southernmost tip of the African continent to dive the treacherous waters of the Cape of Good Hope and delve into the life of one or our most powerful, mysterious and misunderstood predators.

The Great White! Mention the name and vivid images of one the world’s most accomplished aquatic assassins spring instantly to mind. But owing to the speed and ferocity of their attacks, relatively little is known about the hunting habits of these formidable and elusive predators. This riveting film follows the efforts of scientists, researchers and divers as they battle weather, fear and an elusive subject in order to gain a greater understanding of the secret world of the great white shark. But as they tag and track their unwilling subjects, suspicion mounts that the question facing them is no longer whether or not the white sharks possess a rudimentary intelligence, but rather just how intelligent are they?