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Diver Adam Malski filmed a battle between two great white sharks 50 kilometers off the coast of South Australia's Neptune Islands. The islands are a popular destination for tourists interested in great white sharks. The attacker was a 4.8 meter Carcharodon carcharias known as Gilbert. The unnamed smaller shark has not been seen since the fight, so Malski does not know if he survived.
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The dramatic conflict might explain what happened to a 3-m great white whose electronic tag washed up on a beach with information revealing it spent eight days in the belly of a larger predator, suspected to have been a really large great white.
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