Emily De Luce

Hi, I'm good.

Thank you for having me.

Oh, I wasn't the one who made the final identification.

We actually had a few shark experts help us out with that as well to make that confirmation, such as Nick Payne and Taylor Chappell, who had a good look at it.

But yeah, it had a very distinct smile now, that shark that kind of gave its identity away there.

Smell.

You can, you can.

Oh, smell or smile?

Smile, smile.

Its teeth are very distinctive and it definitely gave away what we were looking at there now, yeah.

Ireland is technically still part of the Greenland Sharks distribution range.

It is quite far south.

You would expect them further north in the Arctic, the kind of sub-Arctic waters.

But technically, Ireland and the northern part of the North Atlantic should still fall within its range.

And I believe there's been...

less than a handful of sightings of sharks that were associated with fisheries, so potentially some deep-sea bycatch.

But this is the very first time an animal has stranded, as far as anyone's aware, and the first time that we've had a, quote-unquote, coastal sighting then.

Well, it was a stranding, but it was this close to shore and gave us access to the animal.

So in that way, it is incredibly unique to have had the chance to see that animal there yet.

I know, it's absolutely astounding.