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Deep Blue, 21ft great white shark, spotted off Hawaii


Deep Blue has unique markings that allow experts to identify her REUTERSA great white shark thought to be one of the largest recorded has been spotted by divers off the Hawaiian island of Oahu, feasting on the carcass of a dead whale. “My first reaction was just disbelief,” Mark Mohler, a diver who captured images of the shark, told USA Today. “She followed three tiger sharks in toward the whale carcass, and her sheer size made them look like barracudas.”Named Deep Blue, she is about 21ft (6.4m) long and has unique markings that allow marine experts to confirm that this was the same animal last seen a handful of times 2,600 miles away, off the coast of Baja California. Great whites in the eastern Pacific typically migrate into open ocean during the autumn or early…


Source: The Times January 17, 2019 12:05 UTC



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