RARE AND UNEXPECTED SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY: Shark breeding ground found with hundreds of small sharks and thousands of shark eggs off the coast of Israel

A routine underwater expedition off the coast of Israel has led to the discovery of the largest concentration of shark eggs ever found. “We couldn’t believe what we were seeing!” exclaimed Dr. Yizhaq Makovsky (Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences). “The habitat, which spans dozens, if not hundreds of meters, has an abundance of marine life not found in the waters in or around Israel.” High-resolution videos of the scene, including shark embryos moving inside their eggs, were captured by cameras mounted on a Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle that was purchased with support from the Helmsley Charitable Trust and maintained by the Hatter Department of Marine Technologies. Researchers from University of Haifa, Ben Gurion University and Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR) are taking part in this groundbreaking scientific project. >>WATCH THE CHANNEL 12 REPORT (in Hebrew)<<