‘During the circles we realised just how big she was – she must have been something like seven metres long. She was very interested and was looking at us. ‘She was very calm and not at all nervous and was circling us. We realised almost immediately that she was very big. ‘All of a sudden out of the deep blue, there she came. When we entered the water we had to wait because there was nothing to see. Mr Maier, 48, said: ‘Deep Blue is a very large female shark and she is known to be found in Mexico. German tourist Michael Maier also described filming the predator during a 2014 trip to Mexico. Great whites, the largest predatory fish on earth, typically grow to 15 feet in length, with some, like Deep Blue, exceeding 20 feet in length and weighing up to 5,000 pounds, according to National Geographic. The massive predator was also featured back in 2014 in a Shark Week documentary, when researchers tagged the gigantic fish. The video shows the enormous apex predator swimming near researchers in steel cages, with one bold enough to be swimming outside the protection of the protective metal bars. Padilla’s remarkable footage from 2013 shows the stealthy predator lurking in the deep while attempting to catch preyįootage of Deep Blue was also captured back in 2013 by shark researcher Mauricio Hoyos Padilla off Mexico’s Guadalupe Island. Video shot by the photographer Kimberly Jeffries and posted on Facebook shows a different great white fe.eding on the de.ad sp.e.rm whale before Deep Blue arrived.Ī shark believed to be ‘Deep Blue’ was last spotted in footage captured by shark researcher Mauricio Hoyos Padilla off Mexico’s Guadalupe Island in 2013 ‘If you asked me right now, it would be freediving with, interacting with and photographing not one but multiple, different great whites AND Deep Blue.’
‘If you asked me yesterday the answer would be freediving with Deep Blue, a great white, the largest ever documented, who was last seen in 2013 in Mexico. Kimberly Jeffries, wrote: ‘If you asked me a few days ago what the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen in Hawaiian waters the answer probably would be pretty different. ‘I hope my conservation images like this help people to question their perceptions and realize the beauty, and importance of sharks and I hope that they inspire the kind of compassion and connection we need to have with nature and sharks, to help protect them and coexist alongside them.’Īnother diver who swam with Deep Blue. Posting on Instagram shortly after the swim, Oliphant wrote: ‘Face to face with the worlds largest great white ever recorded ‘Deep Blue’ with still in s.h.ock that we spent almost the whole day with this amazing animal in my backyard. Remarkable photos shot by Oliphant show him and Ramsey swimming right next to the enormous predator. It was spotted fee.ding on the ca.rc.ass of a whaleĭivers could identify her as ‘Deep Blue’ thanks to a tag she was implanted with when she appeared off the coast of Mexico two decades ago.ĭeep Blue is thought to be around 20ft long according to scientists who have previously encountered the predator, around the same height as a fully-grown giraffe
Before being spotted in Hawaii, the great white was caught on video in July 2018 near Guadalupe Island, off the west coast of Mexico. It’s likely that Deep Blue grew so big simply because of her age. Pictures show the pair getting remarkably close to the de.a.dly animal She is 20 feet long and thought to be 50 years old. Deep Blue became an icon several years ago during Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, through her remarkable size and age. Ocean Ramsey swimming with Deep Blue in photos shot by Juan Oliphant after it was spotted in the water off Oahu on Sunday by Kimberly Jeffries. It was drawn to the water around Hawaii for what one diver described as an ‘all you can eat buffet’ – to feed on a de.ad sp.e.rm whale.ĭeep Blue was last spotted in Mexico in 2013 where it was fitted with a tracker which is how divers were able to identify it this time.Ĭonservation photographer Juan Oliphant was one of the divers who took the plunge along with with marine biologist Ocean Ramsey The enormous predator named Deep Blue is up to 50 years old, weights 2.5 tons and measures 20ft long.
For most, it would bring back ter.r.ible memories of the scene from Jaws when the immortal line ‘you’re going to need a bigger boat’ was uttered.īut when a team of divers spotted the largest great white shark on the planet they only hesitated to grab their cameras before they jumped into the sea.
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