This Shark Is Believed To Be The Biggest One Worldwide
Jul 13, 2020 by apost team
Two shark reporters spotted a white shark that blew her sisters and brothers out of the water. The shark, named Deep Blue, has an approximate length of 20 feet long and possibly still increasing.
She is more than 50-years-old and is considered one of the largest white sharks ever seen via camera. The shark was caught on camera by Mauricio Hoyos, a shark conservationist working for Shark Week, a discovery channel. The jaw-dropping shot of the worldly creature was taken in 2013 at the Guadalupe Island in Mexico. In the clip, the shark swam towards the cage and nudged around before disappearing into the waters.
However, the researchers succeeded in fixing a tag on the shark before it disappeared. A tag is a small gadget that transmits the animal's location, depth, and other data that may help the researchers monitor the shark's movement and behavior. In 2019, Deep Blue came back into the spotlight off the coast of Hawaii. Ocean Ramsey and his spouse spotted the massive creature as they feasted on a whale carcass.
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In the footage shot by Mark Mohler, Andrew Gray, a marine biologist, and Kimberly Jeffries, a photographer swam a few feet away from the Deep Blue. They had cameras in their hands that they used to capture the rare footage of the gigantic creature.
Gray told ABC 7 that Deep Blue was way bigger than any other shark. The shark had a unique stomach appearance that speculated that she could be pregnant. However, this was not fully proven since the whale feast could have also played a role in the stomach's enlargement.
Jeffries explained, the footage was enough to present to the scientific community for verification purposes. After the footage, the scientific community agreed that the massive creature was likely to be the Deep Blue.
Gray told ABC 7 that Deep Blue was way bigger than any other shark. The shark had a unique stomach appearance that speculated that she could be pregnant. However, this was not fully proven since the whale feast could have also played a role in the stomach's enlargement.
Jeffries explained, the footage was enough to present to the scientific community for verification purposes. After the footage, the scientific community agreed that the massive creature was likely to be the Deep Blue.
The National Geographic documentary team spent more than two days observing the massive creature and other sharks who came to feed on the whale carcass. As Jeffrey stated, the water and wind conditions were suitable for shooting a clear-video of the sharks. Theoretically, Deep Blue's journey from Mexico to Hawaii seems like an outrageous task, but sharks are well-known for traversing through the entire oceans. In the early 2000s, scientists were able to track a shark that journeyed more than 12500 miles from South Africa to Australia and back.
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