Ramsey touched the shark as it swam by and, while noting that some divers frown upon this, added that “sometimes sharks seek touch.”
“I gently put my hand out to maintain a small space so her girth could pass.” “I waited quietly, patiently, observing as she swam up to the dead sperm whale carcass and then slowly to me,” she said. The divers “spent the entire day with her till the sun went down,” Ramsey wrote. Ramsey said her team had been monitoring tiger sharks feeding when the legendary great white made her surprise appearance. “Deep Blue came up and brushed up against the boat, maybe she’s pregnant, maybe she’s itchy?” Ramsey wrote, adding: “She swam away escorted by two rough-toothed dolphins who danced around her.”ĭeep Blue is over 50 years old, and was caught on camera five years ago in a video that quickly went viral. The creature approached the team’s boat to scratch herself on Tuesday, and was flanked by two “dancing” dolphins as she swam, diver Ocean Ramsey wrote on Instagram alongside a picture of the meeting.Īnd incredibly, the group got close enough to touch the shark as it passed. The divers, who captured remarkable footage of the encounter, say the shark is Deep Blue – a 20-foot-long female. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.Ī great white shark, believed to be one of the largest on the planet, has been spotted by divers as it fed on a whale carcass off the coast of Hawaii. So he was trying to push her away, because he didn't want her to get hurt.This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. It was really close to the cage, and they have pointy ends. "It has a big laceration on the right side. "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. Neither Deep Blue Sea 2 nor Deep Blue Sea 3 is a sequel to the original however, in this one, the genetically engineered sharks that were created in Deep Blue Sea 2 are on the move again, coming up against a new cast and story.
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. Parents need to know that Deep Blue Sea 3 is the third in a series of stand-alone horror-thrillers in which humans tangle with powerful sharks.