So he was trying to push her away, because he didn't want her to get hurt. It was really close to the cage, and they have pointy ends. When we first got there there were a bunch of tiger sharks feasting on the carcass and then suddenly they all swam away probably sensing what was approaching. The same year diver and conservationist Ocean Ramsey posted footage of herself swimming with and touching a huge shark she said was Deep Blue, to the condemnation of many shark researchers. 'It has a big laceration on the right side. A group of us went so see a whale carcass. 'The dive master was pushing the shark away,' he told LiveScience. In one, the diver appears to give the shark a high five-however, Padilla later said he was just trying to push her away from the cage. The original films of Deep Blue captured by Padilla shows the enormous shark swimming past a cage of divers. This means that, as long as she survives, Deep Blue will continue to grow.Īccording to the Smithsonian's Ocean Portal, the average female great white shark grows to around 15 to 16 feet in length, while males are smaller, measuring 11 to 13 feet, on average. Sharks continue to grow throughout their lives, and the average lifespan of a great white is thought to be around 70 years. This could be the result of her being pregnant-or just that she has eaten a lot of sperm whale.ĭeep Blue is estimated to be about 50 years old and weighs 2.5 tons. In the film, they also point out that Deep Blue has a sizeable girth. The team at National Geographic say this will help them get a better understanding of the migration patterns of female great whites. “And even that law has many loop holes,” she added.A post shared by National Geographic last time Deep Blue was caught on camera, she was off the coast of Baja California, in Mexico, around 2,400 miles from Hawaii. “There are currently no laws to protect sharks from being killed” except for a ban on killing them for their fins,” she wrote in a statement.

Shark populations around Hawaii have been declining for years and Ramsey said she hopes Deep Blue’s moment in the spotlight will also shine a light on much-needed shark protection legislation. The shark was spotted on Sunday by divers Mark Mohler and Kimberly Jeffries, who dived into the water to swim alongside the gigantic shark and take pictures of it. It’s like five Thanksgiving feasts all in one go,” he said. Divers in Hawaii have snapped breathtaking images of the largest great white shark ever recorded, a behemoth called 'Deep Blue' that is 21 feet long and more than 5,000 pounds. “For a female that’s carrying six babies – two to ten babies that will be born at about 4 and a half to 5-feet long, weighing about 40 pounds a piece – that’s more than just a meal. Regardless, Lowe said tagging data indicates three female sharks have been recorded feasting on the “floating buffet” that is the dead sperm whale carcass off of Oahu.

“Nobody knows for sure why they do it,” Lowe continued, explaining that Deep Blue was spotted off the coast of California over a year ago.īased on tracking data the female sharks typically return to the west coast - either Baja California, Mexico or California - in the early spring to deliver their pups. Enjoy the photos but don’t go swimming there.”Ĭhris Lowe, director of the shark lab at California State University of Long Beach, told NPR the great white’s markings match those of the Internet-famous creature, who first made a splash when she was caught on camera five years ago.Īdditionally, Lowe said it makes sense that it would be Deep Blue because “female sharks usually swim out to the middle of the Pacific, sometimes as far out as Hawaii, for two years before they come back to California or Mexico to have their pups.”

“In any population you can get those who are extremely large and extremely small,” Atema told the Boston Herald.

The incredible footage shows the 22ft ocean giant - known as Deep Blue - swimming dangerously close to a pair of brave divers in Guadalupe, Mexico. Shark expert Jelle Atema, professor emeritus at Boston University and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution researcher, said the shark, believed to be more than 50 years old, is a freak of nature. THIS is the terrifying moment divers came face to face with one of the world’s biggest great white sharks.

Divers swimming with deep blue shark