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. …….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. Whatever your opinion on the topic, the fact remains that this was a huge global story and has put “Deep Blue” (and the now just as famous “Haole Girl”), firmly into the public spotlight.Īlthough our team has yet to meet either “Deep Blue” or “Haole Girl”, we are pleased to hear news of their survival in the ocean and perhaps one day one of these magnificent creatures will grace us with their presence whilst operating at Guadalupe Island………the search for “Deep Blue” continues. On the flip side she also attracted some negative attention by some claiming her act was reckless and gave off the wrong impression about sharks and how one should behave around them in the wild. Due to Ocean’s love of sharks and her passion to educate the publics opinions, she was able to spread a positive message about the importance of sharks, help dispel misconceptions and create awareness of the threats they face in todays climate.
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Ocean and her teams’ social media went viral and people even began flocking to Hawaii in an attempt to catch a glimpse of this now f amous creature! The story of this conservationist, free diving with one of the largest ocean predators as it fed off a whale carcass quite rightly captured the world’s imagination and sense of wonder. Viral footageįor the next week the story appeared in almost every media outlet. The story however, was about to go viral……. Whilst back out at the whale carcass, Ocean and her team encountered another giant great white shark, possibly even larger than “Deep Blue”! After spending many hours free diving with her and documenting the most incredible images, it did not take long for the media to pick up on the story and make international news! The second giant shark was a new animal and became know to the world as “Haole Girl.” One other great white shark was observed during this time but after these particular days, none of the animals were seen again in the area.
Then on Tuesday 15th, something just as amazing happened. Much to the teams amazement an enormous Great white shark turned up and also began to feast of the whale however, this was not just any Great white shark, this was “Deep Blue”! She was positively identified due to her size and unique markings and scars. On January 13th 2019 conservationist and dive guide Ocean Ramsey and her dive team were studying tiger sharks that had been attracted to a dead sperm whale carcass 9 miles off Oahu. So much has now been written about this story in the media so we thought we would present the facts of the story as it unfolded. Then January 2019 came around and news broke of her being sighted once more, this time in Hawaii…. She had almost become a legend and we wondered if we would ever get a chance to see her again. In the years since she has been spoken about on every dive trip and we even produced a documentary around her story for the Shark Week show “Great white abyss” in 2017. During this film shoot she was tagged by Mauricio Hoyos and Greg Skomal. The footage of her circling a dive cage went viral and a star was born! She was also filmed the same year by Discovery channel for the Shark Week documentary “Jaws strikes back”.
She became truly famous in 2013 when she was next documented by a number of photographers, again during the Guadalupe Island shark season. The first official record of “Deep Blue” is from 1999 when a few photographs were taken of her during that year at Guadalupe Island, however at that time she was not the enormous size she is today.
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