Whale carcass to be used as shark bait in Irish Sea

Well-known adventurer and television presenter Ben Fogle is a man on a mission — the daring documentarian is out to prove there are great white sharks lurking in the depths of the Irish Sea.

The broadcaster, who has hosted various adventure programmes for Sky, Discovery, National Geographic, and the BBC, is trying to lure the predators out from whatever rock they’ve been hiding under by tempting them with the carcass of a whale.

The female humpback, which weighs in excess of seven tonnes, drowned off the Scottish coast in June when it became tangled in some creel rope and was unable to free itself.