Here’s more footage of Deep Blue in action. The film was shot for a 2014 Discovery Channel documentary. Approximately 50-years-old and pregnant, footage of Deep Blue was captured in 2013 for a feature on a Discovery Channel documentary during Shark Week last year. A new video showing a pregnant, 20-foot-long great white shark may be the largest of its kind ever to be caught. So he was trying to push her away, because he didn’t want her to get hurt.” Deep Blue will be featured on Shweekend premiering on Discovery Aug 29 and 30th. “It was really close to the cage, and they have pointy ends. “The dive master was pushing the shark away - it has a big laceration on the right side,” Hoyos Padilla told Live Science in June. The video, titled “Deep Blue (The biggest shark ever filmed) second part,” comes after footage was posted in June of the same great white swimming around near a divemaster in a diving cage. Pelagios Kakunja is based in the Mexican city of La Paz in Baja California Sur.
The shark was spotted near Isla Guadalupe, off the coast of Mexico, Hoyos Padilla’s Facebook post noted. The video has over 3 million views since it was posted to YouTube a few days ago. To see Deep Blue in action click the video link above. The dive master was trying to push her away from the cage so that she wouldn’t get hurt. Check out the exclusive clip above and grab the film. You will notice that Deep Blue has a rather large laceration on her right side. While the first film saw mako sharks as the killers, the new film even makes those massive creatures the targets of the terrifying bull sharks. The female Great White was spotted off the coast of Isla Guadalupe, Mexico. At the time of this footage researchers believed that Deep Blue was pregnant. The researchers are calling her Deep Blue. She is an estimated 20 feet long and weighs over 5,500 pounds. The great white shark is estimated by the conservation group Pelagios Kakunja to be 20 feet long and 50 years old. Deep Blue is one such sharkthis female great white is thought to be the biggest in the world. 15 encounter took place off Oahu's North Shore and also involved tiger sharks feeding on a whale carcass, according to local media reports.A marine research group is calling it “the biggest shark ever filmed”.
In video later shared widely on social media, the gargantuan creature swam up to the crew's dive cage and poked around curiously before disappearing back into the blue.Īround the same time that Gray, Mohler, Jeffries and their colleagues spotted Deep Blue earlier this year, a separate group also spotted what appeared to be the same shark off the Hawaiian coast. The massive shark swam into the internet spotlight several years ago when a film crew spotted her during a Shark Week shoot off Mexico's Guadalupe Island. It's not the first time Deep Blue has been caught on camera. Jeffries told National Geographic that wind and water conditions were perfect for shooting crystal-clear footage of the sharks. In total, the crew spent three days observing Deep Blue and other mature female great whites who dropped by to feed on the whale carcass. "We had shots and video and it was more than enough to present to at least the scientific community for identification," Jeffries explained, adding that authorities agreed that the massive shark pictured was likely Deep Blue. It's thought that she could be more than 50 years old.īased on the appearance of the shark's stomach, the crew also posited she could be pregnant - though the sumptuous sperm whale feast could also be responsible for her enlarged stomach. "I was thinking, 'What in the world is this?' Because it was way bigger than any shark I'd expect," Gray said of the encounter.ĭeep Blue is estimated to measure a staggering 20 feet long and is likely still growing by several millimeters each year. Newly found footage of the 20-foot long great white was recorded off Mexico’s Guadalupe Island by shark expert Mauricio Hoyos Padilla in 2013. The underwater footage shot by photographer Mark Mohler showed marine biologist Andrew Gray and fellow photographer Kimberly Jeffries swimming just feet from Deep Blue, cameras in hand as they captured rare footage of the creature.
Footage from that January encounter is featured in the National Geographic SharkFest special "World's Biggest Great White?" on Sunday, July 21, at 8 p.m. It shows a new angle of Deep Blue circling the cage of several entranced spectators. New footage has emerged showing what appears to be Deep Blue, one of the largest great white sharks ever caught on camera, feasting on a whale carcass off the coast of Hawaii earlier this year.Ī group of Hawaii-based scientists and biologists filmed a shark matching Deep Blue's description several miles off the coast of Waikiki. The newly released footage was recorded by diving enthusiast Michael Maier.
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