They're among the most fearsome beasts on the planet - but the numbers of great white sharks are dwindling at an alarming rate.
The deadly predators have long made South Africa's False Bay their home with tourists flocking to watch them 'leap' out of the sea as they hunt down seals.
But in recent years numbers of the great whites in this stretch of water have been in sharp decline - and even more disturbing is the way some of them died.
Three years ago five of the beasts of the deep were found washed up with huge wounds gauged out of their sides. Chillingly, they were all missing their livers.
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