![]() Send the self addressed and stamped envelope to the dock at 95 East Main St Gloucester Ma 01930 care of Joey (put my name in big letters to make sure it gets to me)Ĭlick For Common GMG Topics 2011 Art Art Haven Beautiful Industry Block Party Cape Ann Cape Ann Animal Aid Cape Ann Museum Captain Joe and Sons Charadrius melodus Chickity check it! chris mccarthy Dancing David B. Deep Blue was previously spotted in Mexico.Īs long as supplies last if any GMG folks want a bumper sticker but can't drop down the dock, just send a self addressed and stamped envelope longer then 7 and a half inches and I'll drop one in the mail for you. ![]() She’s also believed to be more than 50 years old. In the past few years, Blue has become so famous that she even has her own Twitter account. Deep Blue apparently had quite a meal a couple days ago, when she was spotted feeding on a sperm whale carcass that is about 20 miles off Oahu’s southern shore. In the videos, the shark exhibited calm behavior as divers bravely swam alongside the shark, cage-free. The shark in the video is believed to “Deep Blue,” a shark that’s nearly 20 feet long. There’s been a rare sighting in Hawaii waters of what’s believed to be the biggest great white shark on record. An incredible video taken by OneOcean Diving, a massive great white was seen off Oahu. “After I spent some time with her, and then again when we confirmed her identity as Deep Blue, it was an incredible feeling of euphoria,” Mohler said. They received surface support in boats from Danny Roberts, Tim Andrews, and Heather Armstrong. On Sunday, Deep Blue was fattening up on sperm whale flesh as the carcass drifted slowly south, away from Oahu.ĭiving with Mohler were Andrew Gray, Kimberly Jeffries, Laura Rock, and Daren Babula. The gargantuan shark generated headlines again in 2015 when Mauricio Hoyas Padilla, a Mexico-based scientist, shared footage showing the shark dwarfing divers in cages at Guadalupe Island. White shark sightings off Hawaii, however, are rare.ĭeep Blue, believed to measure at least 21 feet, became famous after being featured by Discovery in 2014 (with footage captured in 2013). Most return to Guadalupe by early or mid-summer. Those sharks typically migrate into open ocean, as far as Hawaii, during late fall or early winter. MCSI has tagged dozens of Guadalupe Island white sharks. Probst said he compared footage captured Sunday to photos in the Guadalupe Island database, and that the ID was confirmed by Michael Domeier and Nicole Nasby Lucas of the Marine Conservation Science Institute. Probst announced the Deep Blue sighting via Twitter on Tuesday, when another enormous white shark was spotted near the whale carcass.ĭeep Blue has unique skin markings. “She followed three tiger sharks in toward the whale carcass, and her sheer size made them look like barracudas.” “My first reaction was just disbelief,” Mark Mohler, who captured the images for this story, told For The Win Outdoors. The sighting of “Deep Blue” off Oahu was remarkable because the handful of previous sightings were documented 2,600 miles away at Guadalupe Island off Mexico’s Baja California peninsula. In the video, the gargantuan creature swam up to the crew's dive cage and poked around curiously before disappearing back into the blue.A strikingly massive great white shark, one of the largest ever documented, was spotted by divers in Hawaii on Sunday as the apex predator feasted on a sperm whale carcass. Mauricio Hoyos Padilla, a shark conservationist working for Discovery's "Shark Week," shot jaw-dropping footage of the massive creature off Mexico's Guadalupe Island in 2013. ![]() ![]() It's thought that she could be more than 50 years old. Her name is Deep Blue and, at an estimated 20 feet long and possibly still growing, she's widely considered to be among the largest great white sharks ever caught on camera. LOS ANGELES - The average great white shark clocks in between 11 and 15 feet long, but one great white spotted just a few times in recent years blows her brothers and sisters out of the water. Deep Blue, a 20-foot great white shark spotted off the coast of Guadalupe Island, is widely considered to be among the biggest great white sharks ever filmed. ![]()
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