Expedition Great White

That's disappointing.

NARRATOR:
The

Great White.

Over 10 million years old.

And still a mystery.

To understand it,

you've got to catch it.

BRETT:
That's

a hooked shark.

DOMEIER:
Wow,

look at that.

NARRATOR:
Expert anglers

Chris Fischer and Brett

McBride Team up with

renowned scientist Doctor

Michael Domeier.

Their mission - to tag

and track a rare and

vulnerable predator.

CHRIS:
Oh, that's

a bigger one.

DOMEIER:
We're gonna

go big or go home.

NARRATOR:
They'll need an

unmatched mix of skills...

CHRIS:
Drop the cradle.

NARRATOR:

Tools...and guts.

CHRIS:
Up, up.

Expedition Great White 1x01

Feeding Frenzy

DOMEIER:
Here it is.

Here it comes.

Coming aggressive.

Wants it.

Wants it.

GROUP:
OOHHHH.....

CHRIS:
That was the right

angle and everything.

DOMEIER:
Yeah

she wanted it.

She quickened a

little bit there.

She's gonna eat it.

PAUL:
Yeah, I

don't see her.

DOMEIER:
She's looking

for the bait up by the

float because that's

normally where it is.

CHRIS:
Coming our way,

coming our way, yep.

JODY:
High.

Very high.

DOMEIER:
OOHH

there it is, wow.

Come on baby.

Take it.

CREW:
Getting a nibble?

There he is.

DOMEIER:
I'm bit,

guys, bit, bit, bit.

PAUL:
Fish on!

Fish on!

GROUP:
Fish on.

DOMEIER:
It came off

PAUL:
ARRGGG DOMEIER: No

he's still there.

He's still there.

CREW:
Good, good, good.

There he goes.

DOMEIER:
Shark.

It's a big one.

Two balls down.

PAUL:
Yeah, buddy.

There she goes.

DOMEIER:
She's got

two floats down.

WHITEY:
Ha, ha,

ha, yeah baby.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

NARRATOR:
With the great

white hooked on the line -

Doctor Michael Domeier

stays aboard the mother

ship.....

Shark Patrol.

While Chris and Brett lead

the chase

to wrangle the giant,

and bring it back.

CHRIS:
So it's holding

down a 50-pound ball right

now.

NARRATOR:
It was just a

few hours earlier that the

team tagged and released

their sixth great white.

CHRIS:
Look at its eye.

Holy cow.

NARRATOR:
15 feet long,

this male named Seamus has

the latest long-term

tracking device secured to

his dorsal fin.

CHRIS:
All the tags

are on Doctor Domeier?

Domeier:
That tag's

on really good.

NARRATOR:
They record

every detail of the shark

and secure new long-term

satellite tags to track

its movements for

up to 6 years.

CHRIS:
Adios amigo.

That's what I'm

talking about.

Nice job, Doc.

NARRATOR:
For Doctor

Michael Domeier,

the boat's hydraulic lift

sets their scientific

efforts apart

from the rest.

DOMEIER:
This ship can

pull the biggest adult

white shark we can

possibly catch right out

of the water.

Once that shark's

out of the water,

we can do things that have

never been done before.

NARRATOR:
On Seamus,

Doctor Domeier collects

his first blood sample

from an adult great white

male.

He can't draw it with a

needle so heollects it

from the hook wound.

DOMEIER:
Almost

got enough.

NARRATOR:
He then

analyzes the blood as an

important step to support

his suspicion that sharks

gather at this

island to breed.

DOMEIER:
The

concentration of the

reproductive hormones

are going to allow me to

determine if the white

sharks are mating at

Guadalupe Island or not.

NARRATOR:
If true, it

will be the first mating

site ever identified

for the species

DOMEIER:
The white blood

cells down there,

up here is just

the plasma part,

the part the

hormones will be in.

NARRATOR:
But Domeier

needs blood from mature

females to help prove his

theory - and so far -

no luck.

Could this newly hooked

great white be the one?

CREW:
You see that

son of a rippin?

Whoooff!

CHRIS:
She's

turned away now.

NARRATOR:
Co-Captain Jody

Whitworth and adventurer

actor Paul Walker join

Chris and Brett in the

chase boat.

BRETT:
I hope

it's that monster.

CHRIS:
Let it go.

Don't take any pressure.

Just let the line go

because we don't want to

straighten out that hook.

He's got three balls

under right now. Right?

He's got two and a third one

bouncing up and down.

NARRATOR:
At this stage

in the battle they deploy

a system of buoys to do

two critical things:

create drag on the

animal to help break its

will...and lift the shark

to the surface -where it

can be safely towed back

to the mother ship for

tagging.

But this powerful great

white isn't going with the

program.

CHRIS:
Geez Louise.

Look at that

thing bouncing.

PAUL:
Oh we're going

slack here real quick.

CHRIS:
He's

turned around.

The thing's coming at us.

PAUL:
Yeah, we're going

slack here real quick.

BRETT:
She wants to

come up and say hi.

CHRIS:
Oh there's the

other one popping up,

up there, she's

taking it under again.

PAUL:
Aw, she's pissed.

CHRIS:
Neutral.

Cutting toward it.

Oh, there's the other one.

Holy cow.

CREW:
Oh, there's

the third one.

Whoa.

CHRIS:
Did she come off?

BRETT:
Yeah, she's off.

JODY:
Line's, line's

going straight out it.

She's off.

CHRIS:
It's off?

JODY:
Yeah the line's

going straight out.

There's the cable

right there.

CHRIS:
Look at

that, Brett.

BRETT:
Booyah.

CHRIS:
Broke

the hook man.

Still too much

pressure on the shark.

You know with the drag

like that - how much power

that is?

JODY:
It was just

the buoys though.

CHRIS:
That's

major power.

Yeah, Mother Ship Ocean,

fish is off okay.

Fish is gone.

DOMEIER:
So

apparently he got off.

That's a bummer.

Usually when they hook

solid they don't come off

unless they bend the hook.

PAUL:
Good chance it

was that, that monster,

that big female we

saw off the back.

CHRIS:
To break

that kind of tackle.

That was a monster fish.

That was bigger than

anything we got so far.

That was an amazing

demonstration of power.

BRETT:
Pulled hard

that's for sure.

JODY:
The one

that got away.

CHAD When the gear fails

us, that's the hard part.

You work so hard for every

little step and then a

gear failure is the

ultimate slap in the face.

CHRIS:
That sucks, man.

NARRATOR:
Losing a shark

isn't the day's only

frustration.

Some unexpected

guests arrive.

Mexican authorities.

Armed and ready

to board the ship.

With fresh bait

in the water,

Chris and Domeier are

caught off guard.

CHRIS:
You want me to put

it away while they're over

there so we don't catch a

shark while we're here.

What if we hang one?

DOMEIER:
They'll come

aboard and they're going

to see the hook.

We hang one, we hang one,

I mean that's what we're

here to do.

CHRIS:
OK cool.

OK go get your

permit and get ready.

They're going to

give us an ear full.

NARRATOR:
When the

expedition team set sail

from the Mexican

mainland for Guadalupe,

they had their

permits in hand.

But 160 miles out at sea

rules are less certain.

CHRIS:
So, you're always

worried even though you

have all your paperwork

and even though everything

is in order that the next

guy who's gonna come check

on you is gonna tell you

your stuff's not in order.

NARRATOR:
Unease spreads

as the soldiers fan out.

CHRIS:
You know it can be

quite intimidating when

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