The shark, nearly 20ft (6m) long and weighing an estimated 2.5 tonnes, is believed to be one tagged by researchers about 20 years ago called Deep Blue.
It was attracted to the area off Oahu's south shore by the carcass of a dead sperm whale.
That’s cool. Wonder where she was tagged? I saw some other pics where she was off of the Mexican coast Wonder where she’s travelled all those 50 years.
It is only the third ever sighting of Deep Blue, who was last spotted in Mexico in 2013, and is estimated to be around 20 ft long and weigh 2.5 tonnes.
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Deep Blue is estimated to be up to 50 years old and is something of a celebrity in the world of shark enthusiasts - she even has her own Twitter account and featured in an episode of Shark Week.
However, researchers warn that establishing the shark's exact size is difficult, and highlight the fact that three very large females have been spotted in the area over consecutive days.
Michael Domeier and Nicole Nasby-Lucas from the Marine Conservation Science Institute led the research project that first documented Deep Blue in 1999.
The pair told the Telegraph that unique pigment patterns confirmed that the shark photographed this week was Deep Blue.
They added that Deep Blue, who may live until around the age of 70, is very likely pregnant at the moment and could give birth off the coast of Baja, Mexico or California in the spring.
Snorkel chicks name is Ocean Ramsey, she is a biologist and says a few words about swimming with Deep Blue in this video. More video on her Instagram page.
Snorkle chicks name is Ocean Ramsey, she is a biologist and says a few words about swimming with Deep Blue in this video. More video on her Instagram page.
Some cool stuff on wiki about great whites, they don’t begin to breed until their twenties and thirties and when they get THAT big they may depend largely upon whale carcasses (I didn’t think there were that many dead whales).
Some cool stuff on wiki about great whites, they don’t begin to breed until their twenties and thirties and when they get THAT big they may depend largely upon whale carcasses (I didn’t think there were that many dead whales).
Sharks can go an awfully long time between large feedings. Depends on the species, of course, and Great Whites and Makos maintain a higher body temp than the surrounding water, so need more than most. Still a real long time, in human terms. I think the latest data indicates that 66 pounds of blubber is good for about 6 weeks, for a Great White.
Some cool stuff on wiki about great whites, they don’t begin to breed until their twenties and thirties and when they get THAT big they may depend largely upon whale carcasses (I didn’t think there were that many dead whales).
Sharks can go an awfully long time between large feedings. Depends on the species, of course, and Great Whites and Makos maintain a higher body temp than the surrounding water, so need more than most. Still a real long time, in human terms. I think the latest data indicates that 66 pounds of blubber is good for about 6 weeks, for a Great White.
For a shark that big, 66 pounds of blubber is a bite or two.
One of the most interesting things I’ve seen related to sharks in recent years was a show about the discovery of a killer whale pod that specialized in killing and eating great white sharks. And then the interaction between them. Some researchers were following a congregation of hundreds of great whites around a seal birthing area and then one morning suddenly as if someone snapped their fingers, all the sharks were gone. Then later that day or the next day that killer whale pod showed up on the scene.
All of you that talk about Darwin awards and the stupidity of that diver need to realize that it's the Great White that you DON'T see that gets you. The one that's been stalking you....
100% CORRECT. = During SHARK WEEK in 2016 one of the cameramen nearly got eaten by a Great White, off the South Africa coast, that came from behind him, while he was "close & personal" with a different shark.
100% CORRECT. = During SHARK WEEK in 2016 one of the cameramen nearly got eaten by a Great White, off the South Africa coast, that came from behind him, while he was "close & personal" with a different shark.
THAT video, the crew did NOT show on TV.
yours, tex
When I was in Cape Town, they had cage diving trips where they would bait great whites in for folks to get close too them.
My wife and I will be in Maui on Sunday for a quick few days away just her and I but since Deep Blue is in the Oahu area we don’t have anything to worry about. 😁
We’ll still go body surfing and snorkeling but I expect my wife to be more apprehensive than I am so I guess I won’t dive down underwater and grab her ankle.....no shark impersonations 🦈
Some cool stuff on wiki about great whites, they don’t begin to breed until their twenties and thirties and when they get THAT big they may depend largely upon whale carcasses (I didn’t think there were that many dead whales).
Sharks can go an awfully long time between large feedings. Depends on the species, of course, and Great Whites and Makos maintain a higher body temp than the surrounding water, so need more than most. Still a real long time, in human terms. I think the latest data indicates that 66 pounds of blubber is good for about 6 weeks, for a Great White.
For a shark that big, 66 pounds of blubber is a bite or two.
One of the most interesting things I’ve seen related to sharks in recent years was a show about the discovery of a killer whale pod that specialized in killing and eating great white sharks. And then the interaction between them. Some researchers were following a congregation of hundreds of great whites around a seal birthing area and then one morning suddenly as if someone snapped their fingers, all the sharks were gone. Then later that day or the next day that killer whale pod showed up on the scene.
Yeah, they don't really need that much to eat. A 100 pound shark can go that 6 weeks on a single 3lb fish. Grey Nurse sharks are REALLY sliw, metabolically, and don't even need that much.
Jaws was a fictitious film whose poster kind of looks like this, so this is my effort at an Anti-Jaws type media piece @savingjawsmovie . I’ve been swimming with sharks my whole life and working professionally with them for over 15 years. There’s a challenge I have in my efforts, to find a balance between helping people to overcome their fear of sharks that often stems for fictitious demonizing media and instilling a healthy level of respect for sharks as very capable apex predators #ApexPredatorNotMonster not puppy (cause if you pet puppies often even puppies bite, actually a lot ;)). Having worked with sharks for so long I can fully appreciate what they are capable of because I have been rushed by sharks and had to deter them and I have had to leave the water and I have watched them actively predate and compete for space and have confrontations. However, I’ve also had the most incredible moments of my life in the water with them where 99.9% of the time they cruise gracefully around and so long as I keep looking around and pay attention constantly and quietly and give respect and attention to the more dominant individuals and challenging juveniles on a CONSTANT bases I am treated as more or less an equal predator. Never complacent, always respectful and adapting at every second to every movement. I reached the point long ago where I dedicated my life to conservation and I love it, I love educating people about sharks and introducing them to them in a professional guided situation through the program I co-founded @oneoceandiving where we also collect data @oneoceanresearch @oneoceansharks and help support conservation through @Oneoceanconservation and @OneoceanEducation and @Oneoceanglobal @Waterinspired @oneoceanhawaii and other with funds from @oneoceandesigns and diving I love studying shark behavior and body language and its an absolute pleasure to share that with people and help them to better appreciate sharks and I hope inspire them to help save them. Check out http://HelpSaveSharks.Org for more ways to get involved. #Aloha #hawaii #greatWhiteHawaii #SaveTheOcean #ocean #discoversharks #oneoceanconservation #OneOceanDiving PHOTO CREDIT @juansharks ❤️
Old saying in the Fire Service: "There OLD firefighters, and there are BOLD firefighters. But, very seldom do you meet an OLD BOLD firefighter." Would expect the same applies to her line of work as well...
Old saying in the Fire Service: "There OLD firefighters, and there are BOLD firefighters. But, very seldom do you meet an OLD BOLD firefighter." Would expect the same applies to her line of work as well...
The way I’ve heard it is, “there are old pilots and bold pilots but there are no old, bold pilots!”😁
My husband, "Tex", has been a dedicated shark-hunter, since he was in college & worked as a volunteer for the famous Professor Eugenie Clark PhD, for several summers from 1965 & remained one of her fans/correspondents until her death in 2015. He & his friends catch, (often) take tissue samples from, measure, tag & release many large/dangerous sharks of several species each season. (When I can get away from work, I join him in his "hobby".)
He always says that, "There is a fine line between very brave & needlessly reckless, with your life."
In my opinion, that lady has long ago crossed the line from bravery into recklessness. She may not live long enough to regret her foolish decisions.
Large sharks are completely unpredictable & may bite anything within their reach, whether or not that they are hungry. - For example, the Summer that we met & started dating, a large Tiger Shark took a bite out of the aluminum transom-ladder on his old 18 foot boat. (In the case of "Big Blue", even a "curiosity bite" would likely be lethal.)
My husband, "Tex", has been a dedicated shark-hunter, since he was in college & worked as a volunteer for the famous Professor Eugenie Clark PhD, for several summers from 1965 & remained one of her fans/correspondents until her death in 2015. He & his friends catch, (often) take tissue samples from, measure, tag & release many large/dangerous sharks of several species each season. (When I can get away from work, I join him in his "hobby".)
He always says that, "There is a fine line between very brave & needlessly reckless, with your life."
In my opinion, that lady has long ago crossed the line from bravery into recklessness. She may not live long enough to regret her foolish decisions.
Large sharks are completely unpredictable & may bite anything within their reach, whether or not that they are hungry. - For example, the Summer that we met & started dating, a large Tiger Shark took a bite out of the aluminum transom-ladder on his old 18 foot boat. (In the case of "Big Blue", even a "curiosity bite" would likely be lethal.)
Sincerely, DarlaG
Why do "Tex's" posts have a Big Squeeze feel to them lately? Who puts their wife on here to tell their stories? Maybe I'm wrong but it sure seems a little off...
I’ve been in a shark cage off Oahu twice. The first year (several years ago) there had been a huge white show up and the boat captain and crew free swam with a very large white a week before we arrived. The captain showed me her footage she captured on her GoPro. While my wife and I were in the cage there was a couple of very large tiger sharks show up and circled the cage. One had a large stainless circle hook dangling from its mouth. There were quite a few Galapagos sharks swirling around all the time until the tigers came in. The Galapagos sharks took off when the tigers appeared. This past summer we returned and did another shark cage trip. There were quite a few Galapagos sharks and a couple of other sharks working the cage and just fun and fascinated with sharks. They are so fast and powerful and I fear at some time we will hear of these free swimmers with whites get more than they bargained for.
I’ve been in a shark cage off Oahu twice. The first year (several years ago) there had been a huge white show up and the boat captain and crew free swam with a very large white a week before we arrived. The captain showed me her footage she captured on her GoPro. While my wife and I were in the cage there was a couple of very large tiger sharks show up and circled the cage. One had a large stainless circle hook dangling from its mouth. There were quite a few Galapagos sharks swirling around all the time until the tigers came in. The Galapagos sharks took off when the tigers appeared. This past summer we returned and did another shark cage trip. There were quite a few Galapagos sharks and a couple of other sharks working the cage and just fun and fascinated with sharks. They are so fast and powerful and I fear at some time we will hear of these free swimmers with whites get more than they bargained for.
Free swimming with sharks is like playing with lions. Stupid.
After "the boys" brought a VERY large & ANGRY female Tiger alongside last Spring, I came close to quoting a famous line from JAWS by Roy Scheider, as "Chief Martin Brody": "You're going to need a BIGGER boat." (That afternoon, I feared that she was going to be "in our laps".)
Before the next "shark-hunting season", we will have a MUCH larger/beamier, I/O-powered, open utility, with "higher sides" to keep the toothy critters OUTSIDE of the boat. (Years before we met, Tex had a juvenile Tiger end up aboard the boat, where the shark took a bite out of a boat-seat & ate a tackle-box, before "being escorted off" of the interior.)
My husband, "Tex", has been a dedicated shark-hunter, since he was in college & worked as a volunteer for the famous Professor Eugenie Clark PhD, for several summers from 1965 & remained one of her fans/correspondents until her death in 2015. He & his friends catch, (often) take tissue samples from, measure, tag & release many large/dangerous sharks of several species each season. (When I can get away from work, I join him in his "hobby".)
He always says that, "There is a fine line between very brave & needlessly reckless, with your life."
In my opinion, that lady has long ago crossed the line from bravery into recklessness. She may not live long enough to regret her foolish decisions.
Large sharks are completely unpredictable & may bite anything within their reach, whether or not that they are hungry. - For example, the Summer that we met & started dating, a large Tiger Shark took a bite out of the aluminum transom-ladder on his old 18 foot boat. (In the case of "Big Blue", even a "curiosity bite" would likely be lethal.)
Sincerely, DarlaG
Why do "Tex's" posts have a Big Squeeze feel to them lately? Who puts their wife on here to tell their stories? Maybe I'm wrong but it sure seems a little off...
its like their sitting side by side......telling each other what to write down...….bob
Although I agree with all the comments about recklessness and Darwinism, I have this fleeting thought that there's a great white and a big shark in that picture!
THANK YOU for your incredibly DUMB & generally worthless comment. - I encourage my Darla to be involved in shooting, hunting & in our "catch, tag & release" shark research. She also is "a committed activist" & is "involved in" several conservative social/political issues & in some ways is MORE conservative than I am.
Are you, per chance married? If you are, do you tell your wife what to post or NOT post, about whatever information seems interesting and/or important to her? Also, inasmuch as THE GOOD BOOK says that married couples, "- - - - shall become as of one flesh", I'm not sure that it makes much or any any difference which of us is writing/not writing any particular comment/post.
In this particular case, I was busy doing a repair to one of my antique OMC OB motors (a rather rare "long-foot" 1956 Johnson electric-starting OB) & was "up to my elbows" in oil/grease. I chose to not "clean up" to make comments about the CRAZY people, who insist on risking life & limb by "free swimming" with sharks. Darla read what she was writing to me before "completing" her comments on the recklessness of swimming with dangerous sharks & describing some of the activities that our "crew of amateur shark researchers" do. (Personally, I would have said that that anyone who "swims with dangerous sharks" may become SHARK FOOD & may well win the Darwin Award. Furthermore, I completely OPPOSE "hand-feeding of sharks, as those people are teaching sharks to associate the presence of swimmers with FOOD, which MAY well get persons, who are NOT "involved in the hand-feeding", attacked & perhaps killed.)
In this particular case, Darla & I were about 15-20 feet apart, while I was working an antique OB, which is another of my hobbies. See my post # 13476901 to "Rooster 7" for more information.
In this particular case, Darla & I were about 15-20 feet apart, while I was working an antique OB, which is another of my hobbies. See my post # 13476901 to "Rooster 7" for more information.
yours, tex.
Tex.......gotcha.......if that rooster guy hadn't made that stupid comment, i wouldn't have replied ....have a good day....bob
In this particular case, Darla & I were about 15-20 feet apart, while I was working an antique OB, which is another of my hobbies. See my post # 13476901 to "Rooster 7" for more information.
yours, tex.
Tex.......gotcha.......if that rooster guy hadn't made that stupid comment, i wouldn't have replied ....have a good day....bob
BobMT,
ImVho, we have a number of clueless (and evidently terminally BORED), "know nothing" members, who seem to spend all of their time posting "something", even when posting that "something" makes them LOOK silly, ignorant of facts, "empty between the ears" & like jackasses. (At least this particular forum hasn't yet "been blessed with" the presence of "Jersey grrl", who has joined another forum that Darla & I belong to. = "Jersey grrl" seems to spend all of her time complaining, griping, carping, whining & "jumping on" other members for typos, misspelled words, awkward syntax & other really minor "errors" of grammar/style. - Both Darla & I have put "Jersey grrl" on PERMANENT "ignore".)
People that swim with sharks.. free climb...etc are following their passion and doing what they love. It’s dangerous and I’m sure they know that. Most likely they are not concerned with what folks on the couch with a laptop have to say about their choices
People that swim with sharks.. free climb...etc are following their passion and doing what they love. It’s dangerous and I’m sure they know that. Most likely they are not concerned with what folks on the couch with a laptop have to say about their choices
Lol...they never suspect somebody will find their thong hanging out of a sharks ass either.
People that swim with sharks.. free climb...etc are following their passion and doing what they love. It’s dangerous and I’m sure they know that. Most likely they are not concerned with what folks on the couch with a laptop have to say about their choices
But even though we aren't allowed to question their choices, we are required to lament when they suffer as a result of those choices.
People that swim with sharks.. free climb...etc are following their passion and doing what they love. It’s dangerous and I’m sure they know that. Most likely they are not concerned with what folks on the couch with a laptop have to say about their choices
Lol...they never suspect somebody will find their thong hanging out of a sharks ass either.
That not only is that funny as hell but it's true, they never think they will be a spot or a pile of bear schit, stuch to the horns of a Buffalo.....Ect, Ect. Quite often not a lot of thought goes into it they "Just Do It".
People that swim with sharks.. free climb...etc are following their passion and doing what they love. It’s dangerous and I’m sure they know that. Most likely they are not concerned with what folks on the couch with a laptop have to say about their choices
Lol...they never suspect somebody will find their thong hanging out of a sharks ass either.
That reminds me
My bud was bangin this chick on spring break in Panama City. Hittin it from the back.
He yanked a plastic bologna peeling outta her starfish
People that swim with sharks.. free climb...etc are following their passion and doing what they love. It’s dangerous and I’m sure they know that. Most likely they are not concerned with what folks on the couch with a laptop have to say about their choices
But even though we aren't allowed to question their choices, we are required to lament when they suffer as a result of those choices.
Of course you can question away..and you are required to lament nothing
People that swim with sharks.. free climb...etc are following their passion and doing what they love. It’s dangerous and I’m sure they know that. Most likely they are not concerned with what folks on the couch with a laptop have to say about their choices
Lol...they never suspect somebody will find their thong hanging out of a sharks ass either.
That reminds me
My bud was bangin this chick on spring break in Panama City. Hittin it from the back.
He yanked a plastic bologna peeling outta her starfish
I saw a "landed" 800+ pound Tiger-Shark spit up a whole roll of tar-paper in AUG of 1986. (Shark digestive systems work in both directions, equally well. = Indigestible items are simply spit-out.)
I never understood why that item seemed like a possibly "tasty meal" to a female Tiger.
THANK YOU for your incredibly DUMB & generally worthless comment. - I encourage my Darla to be involved in shooting, hunting & in our "catch, tag & release" shark research. She also is "a committed activist" & is "involved in" several conservative social/political issues & in some ways is MORE conservative than I am.
Are you, per chance married? If you are, do you tell your wife what to post or NOT post, about whatever information seems interesting and/or important to her? Also, inasmuch as THE GOOD BOOK says that married couples, "- - - - shall become as of one flesh", I'm not sure that it makes much or any any difference which of us is writing/not writing any particular comment/post.
In this particular case, I was busy doing a repair to one of my antique OMC OB motors (a rather rare "long-foot" 1956 Johnson electric-starting OB) & was "up to my elbows" in oil/grease. I chose to not "clean up" to make comments about the CRAZY people, who insist on risking life & limb by "free swimming" with sharks. Darla read what she was writing to me before "completing" her comments on the recklessness of swimming with dangerous sharks & describing some of the activities that our "crew of amateur shark researchers" do. (Personally, I would have said that that anyone who "swims with dangerous sharks" may become SHARK FOOD & may well win the Darwin Award. Furthermore, I completely OPPOSE "hand-feeding of sharks, as those people are teaching sharks to associate the presence of swimmers with FOOD, which MAY well get persons, who are NOT "involved in the hand-feeding", attacked & perhaps killed.)
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