--- title: Live Broadcasters Spotted a Shark During the Broadcast description: A special Sky News broadcast from a mini-submarine in the Indian Ocean got a dose of drama when a shark swam past the underwater vessel. canonical: https://time.com/5553576/shark-live-broadcast/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-03-18T16:11:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:58:09.325Z og:title: Diva Shark Interrupts Live Underwater Broadcast og:description: A special broadcast from a mini-submarine got interesting when a shark swam past og:url: https://time.com/5553576/shark-live-broadcast/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Diva Shark Interrupts Live Underwater Broadcast twitter:description: A special broadcast from a mini-submarine got interesting when a shark swam past twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Diva Shark Interrupts Live Underwater Broadcast > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Mar 18, 2019 4:11 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Mar 18, 2019 4:11 PM UTC It was always going to be a special broadcast: [Sky News presenter](https://news.sky.com/story/deep-ocean-live-sky-news-makes-history-with-first-deep-sea-tv-bulletin-11669300) Anna Botting took a mini-[submarine](http://time.com/5334361/thailand-rescue-elon-musk-submarine/) hundreds of feet down into the [Indian Ocean](http://time.com/5277317/malaysian-airlines-flight-370-mh370/) to broadcast live from below the sea, alongside pilot Randy Holt, in the first live report from beneath the waves. But the pair’s historic broadcast was made even more interesting by the marine life that approached their vessel as they explored the are of Aldabra, a coral atoll southwest of the Seychelles. At one point, a [shark](http://time.com/5506590/great-white-shark-hawaii-coast/) could be seen casually cruising by the submarine, interrupting Botting’s reading of the news. > [](https://twitter.com/TwitterMoments/status/1107599548300644353) “Oh, shark, shark!” you can hear her say. “Wow… Amazing!” Then, like the professional she is, she returned to her regular reports. Sky News is intending to continue their underwater broadcasts for three days in what they’re calling “Deep Ocean Life,” bringing the marine world right into viewers’ living rooms in partnership with the Seychelles government and ocean research institute Nekton. The area they are exploring and broadcasting from is part of a marine conservation zone, and the submarines will go as far as 1,000 feet down. One of the goals of the program is to draw attention to ocean health, which is under siege globally thanks to challenges including [plastic pollution](http://time.com/5501065/tiny-plastic-enemy-oceans-nurdle/) and [climate change](http://time.com/5550823/climate-change-protest-schoolchildren/). And while spotting the shark may have been a surprise, it’s also a good sign: as primary predators, sharks keep ocean ecosystems in balance, but they have been under threat from fishing. More than 100 million sharks are believed to be killed each year, with some shark species populations [decreasing](https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/sharks-rays/shark-finning-sharks-turned-prey) by 60% or more. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5553576/shark-live-broadcast/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5553576/shark-live-broadcast/"},"headline":"Diva Shark Interrupts Live Underwater Broadcast","datePublished":"2019-03-18T16:11:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:58:09.325Z","description":"They were reporting from a mini-submarine","url":"https://time.com/5553576/shark-live-broadcast/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","animals","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5553576/shark-live-broadcast/","name":"Diva Shark Interrupts Live Underwater Broadcast"}}]}] ```