In 2013 and 2019, two separate encounters with a white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) were documented within Indonesian waters. Of particular importance was ca. 6.0 m male C. carcharias that was captured in Lombok, Indonesia in 2013, where an upper lateral tooth was retained. Using the D-loop sequences of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) associated with this captured white shark, the mtDNA was compared to the available mtDNA sequences in GenBank® associated with the Northwest Pacific and Australian (i.e. Southern-Western and Eastern) C. carcharias subpopulations to determine its point of origin. Results from the mtDNA analyses suggest that the point of origin for this captured C. carcharias is from one of the Australian subpopulations. When compared to primary literature, this migration presents a northerly range extension for this species; however, since it is unclear what Australian subpopulation this shark was from it is uncertain what subpopulation this range extension applies to. Although C. carcharias presence within Indonesian waters is likely a rare occurrence, being that Indonesia represents the largest shark fin exporter in the world, the utilization of these waters and potential unsustainable exploitation poses a definitive threat to this highly migratory top predator. Therefore, further research investigating the purpose and site fidelity of C. carcharias within these waters is critical to future multijurisdictional protection of this top predator.

A six metre adult male of the white shark Carcharodon carcharias was caught by demersal longliners operating off Dompu, Indonesia. The specimen was landed and sold at Tanjung Luar landing site in eastern Lombok. Photographic evidence for this specimen is provided and an upper lateral tooth was retained. This is the first confirmed record of the species in Indonesian waters.

Forty-six individuals of Carcharodon carcharias were either recorded or sighted in Turkey's waters during a period from February 1881 to 28 September 2011. Total lengths (TLs) of the recorded great white sharks ranged from 85 cm TL to ~800 cm TL, and mass ranged between 12 kg and ~4500 kg. Three non-fatal shark attacks on boats of tuna hand-liners were also recorded. A North Aegean Sea specimen (85 cm TL; sp No. 45; Table 1) caught by a coastal trammel netter in Edremit Bay on July 6, 2011, is possibly the smallest neonate white shark from Mediterranean waters to date. Due to intensification of tuna fishing and the resulting decline or extinction of tuna stocks, C. carcharias is now apparently extinct from marmaric and bosphoric waters. Capture of 6 neonate great white sharks between 2008 and 2011, in the same period of the year (from late June to early July), in the waters of Edremit Bay (northern Aegean Sea, Turkey) suggests the possibility of a breeding ground in the region. The growing tuna farm industry offers a new possibility for encounters between humans and great white sharks off the Turkish coast.

A female great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, was caught by a tuna hand-liner in the Bosphorus Strait, in late March 1968. Its total length was estimated to be 551 cm and precaudal length 433 cm. Carcharodon carcharias now seems to be extinct from the Sea of Marmara due to the decline of tuna populations in the Marmaric waters.

The white shark is known to inhabit the Gulf of California, but few published records exist for the most frequent localities of captures or sightings of this protected and relatively uncommon shark in Gulf waters. We have compiled and here report 38 records of white shark captures and reliable sightings for the Gulf. Records include individuals caught as by-catch by shrimp trawlers and gill-nets, and several sightings by divers or at fishing camps with corroborating photographs or sets of jaws (teeth). The main locations of occurrence were El Golfo de Santa Clara (13 records), followed by Santa Rosalía (4), and San Pedro Mártir and San Pedro Nolasco Islands (3 each). Presence of juveniles (<300 cm total length) was highest from January to May (10 records); whereas in July and October only two juveniles were recorded. Adults were more common from December to May (8 records); whereas from June to October there were fewer (5). Human induced threats and conservation of the white shark in the Mexican Pacific are briefly discussed.

In 1995, a complete survey of the fish collection in the Charles Darwin Research Station (CDRS) Museum (Galápagos Islands, Ecuador) was undertaken. Five specimens represented possible new records to the archipelago, but insufficient material was available at CDRS to confirm identification. On 5 November 2007, the specimens were removed from the CDRS fish collection under licence from the Parque Nacional Galápagos (PNG) on loan to the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History (LACM). Identification of all species was confirmed using comparative LACM voucher specimens, including X-rays, scientific keys and other resources, which were, at the time, unavailable to scientists at the CDRS. Four of the five specimens were incorrectly identified in 1995, the fifth, the golden trevally, Gnathodon speciosus, is the first confirmed record of this species for the Galápagos. One of the originally mis-identified specimens, the longnose anchovy (Anchoa nasus), proved to be A. ischana (sharpnose anchovy), and A. nasus can now be eliminated as a verified record from the islands. The first confirmed record of the sharp-tail mola, Masturus lanceolatus, for the archipelago is also presented based on photographic and video evidence. The first physical evidence of the white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, in the Galápagos Archipelago based on discovery of a tooth and C14 analysis, is presented.

This communication presents observations of predatory and non-predatory encounters between white sharks and Cape fur seals in a shallow (3–6 m) channel between Geyser Rock and Dyer Island, South Africa. Within the channel Cape fur seals raft extensively for thermo-regulatory purposes, to play, or due to terrestrial competition for space. The channel's physical environment effectively limits a white shark's approach orientation to the horizontal plane, thus inhibiting it to effectively utilize depth, and associated stealth, to capture pinnipeds. In the absence of effective camouflage, sharks may patrol this area in search of unaware, incapacitated or dead seals. Here, predator mobbing is a behavioural strategy adopted by Cape fur seals to lower predation risk. Specific benefits of mobbing may include: (a) perception advertisement to sharks; (b) intra-specific communication of a shark's locality; (c) driving the shark away from the area; (d) increased vigilance; (e) advertisement of a mobber's good health to a shark; and (f) possibly learning about a predator's behavioural capabilities by inexperienced prey. Mobbing expression is further promoted by the channel's shallow nature which enhances a seal's ability to visually detect the shark, and therefore makes it easier for a seal to evade it (reducing immediate predation risk). This environment thus promotes the widespread use of mobbing amongst Cape fur seals when confronted with a patrolling white shark.