#Divers swimming with deep blue shark free
Interactions with humans ĭespite the large size of Deep Blue, she has been filmed non aggressively approaching one diver and even tolerating the presence of other scuba divers in the area, even allowing free diver and model Ocean Ramsey, to hold on to one of her fins while swimming with her. Deep Blue has been identified by researchers by not only her size but the pattern of where the gray meets the white underside, with a shark photographer called George Probst commenting that a shark's countershade is unique to the individual, stating "That’s as unique to a white shark as our fingerprints are". In addition to her length, her body has a noticeable girth to it, leading some people to have speculated that she was pregnant. Some have disputed her size, stating that she is more likely to be eighteen to nineteen feet in length.ĭeep Blue has noticeable pigmentation and markings on her body, with a large laceration over the right side of her body. Description ĭeep Blue is estimated to be 6.1 m (20 ft) long and weigh over two tonnes. Due to the amount of interest in her, a Twitter account was created about her and named after her. Deep Blue's exposure increased further when she was spotted in Hawaii by researchers who had been in the area to monitor tiger sharks, Deep Blue was in the area scavenging for food from a sperm whale carcass. Deep Blue's popularity increased when a video of her was posted to Facebook in 2015 by Padilla, the video went viral. This article first appeared on Citizen Truth and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.Deep Blue was first discovered in 2014, she was filmed as part of Shark Week off the coast of Guadalupe Island, Mexico aboard the MV Horizon charter vessel. While a team of divers swam in waters off the coast of Hawaii, they encountered one of the largest great white sharks recorded. Diver Ocean Ramsey told the Honolulu Star Advertiser the great white arrived while they were filming tiger sharks in mid-January. “We saw a few tigers, and then she came up and all the other sharks split, and she started brushing up against the boat,” Ramsey told the Honolulu Star Advertiser in a phone interview after swimming with the shark all day.Ī dead sperm whale’s carcass drew the shark, attracted to the waters off Oahu’s south shore, to the area. JanuWATCH: Sea Divers Swim with Mammoth Great White Sharkīy Leighanna Shirey, Citizen Truth January 28, 2019ĭivers swam so close to the largest great white shark on record they could touch it. WATCH: Sea Divers Swim with Mammoth Great White Shark The “grandma shark,” as Ramsey calls her, even has her own Twitter account. Since great whites typically prefer to swim in cooler waters, they are rarely seen in Hawaii. Researchers believe that Deep Blue is about 50 years old. Sharks only attack humans if they mistake people for their usual prey or if they’re curious, she said. “Big pregnant females are actually the safest ones to be with, the biggest, oldest ones, because they’ve seen it all, including us.”
“I’m without words it’s heartwarming she’s probably the most gentle great white I’ve ever seen,” Ramsey said. We went out at sunrise, and she stayed with us pretty much throughout the day,” Ramsey said. According to Ramsey, the shark could be pregnant because it was “shockingly wide.”
“She was just this big, beautiful, gentle giant wanting to use our boat as a scratching post.
Researchers believe the shark is the same great white researchers tagged 20 years ago and dubbed Deep Blue. Understandably, some people want to get into the water either out of fascination or to get photographs, but it is truly dangerous to be around this carcass with so much shark activity.” We don’t want anyone to get hurt if a shark swimming around the carcass mistakes them as food. Chief of Hawaii’s Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement Jason Redulla warned people in a news release to stay clear of the carcass: “We’re asking people to stay out of the water around this carcass.
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