‘We were all just in awe’: A stranding in Ireland sheds new light on the long, slow, ice-cold life of a deep-sea shark BBCDeath of a 150-year-old shark amazes scientists Zamin.uzA shark that lives in the freezing Arctic can survive for roughly 400 years and does not reach adulthood until around 150 — meaning some sharks alive today were swimming before the first steam engine was ever built ScienceBlog.com