MOSSEL BAY NEWS - It's the National Geographic Wild annual Sharkfest on television in July.

The first day of the fest, tomorrow, Saturday 1 July, starts with a show filmed around Seal Island, off Mossel Bay, and with the news that sharks are eating one another, according to scientists.

It is not sharks eating seals or killer whales eating sharks, but sharks eating sharks.

Also, National Geographic Wild did a short film on a Mossel Bay scientist, Sophu Qoma, as part of Sharkfest. Watch this HERE.

In a media release National Geographic Wild noted: "Around the world, reports of shark-on-shark attacks are increasing. Now scientists have a new theory on what makes up most of the great white shark’s diet, and it’s not seals."

Scientists say they have conclusive proof that sharks are preying on one another.

'Ground-breaking investigation'

The media release notes: "In the ground-breaking investigation off Seal Island, scientists Enrico Gennari and Lacey Williams led a team of experts, capturing conclusive evidence of sharks eating sharks."

Shark Eat Shark premieres tomorrow at 18:45 on National Geographic Wild (DStv 182, Starsat 221).

The programme is described thus: "Gennari and Williams, with the help of Neil Hammerschlag, set out to solve a predator-prey mystery, by casting a wide net of scientific experiments across the bay.

"The pair use camera tags and baited remote underwater vehicles (or BRUVs), skin samples and more, to try to capture concrete evidence that sharks are preying on other sharks. Everything starts off promising, but even though the team believes it has every angle of the investigation covered, nature throws curveball after curveball that threatens to jeopardise everything.

"In the end, the team perseveres against all odds and is left with first-ever evidence of the theory that life in the waters off Mossel Bay is a shark-eat-shark world."

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