Video: Giant Great White Shark Frolics With Divers

I couldn't get the Instagram video to embed on DU, but it's available on the link below


Video: Giant Great White Shark Frolics With Divers



https://www.npr.org/2019/01/18/686794134/video-giant-great-white-shark-frolics-with-divers?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter




Divers off the coast of Oahu's North Shore had the rare treat last week of swimming and frolicking with a great white shark, widely believed to be one of the largest in the world, and the thrilling, inter-species encounter was captured on video.

Ocean Ramsey, who independently studies sharks and leads cage-free shark diving tours off the Hawaiian island, was in the water with her team, monitoring a group of tiger sharks feeding on a decomposing sperm whale on Tuesday, when she suddenly spotted Deep Blue, as the 20-foot-long female shark is called. "I waited quietly, patiently, observing as she swam up to the dead sperm whale carcass and then slowly to me," Ramsey wrote on Instagram.



As the whale came closer, Ramsey extended her arm out toward the massive shark "to maintain a space so her girth could pass." Eventually, Ramsey's gloved hand caressed the shark. "What some don't realize is that sometimes sharks seek touch," she said.

Ramsey told the Honolulu Star Advertiser that Deep Blue looks like she may be pregnant. "She's shockingly wide," Ramsey observed.



It seems the possibly pregnant behemoth was in an especially playful mood, according to Ramsey, who noted that the apex predator was flanked by two rough-toothed dolphins "who danced around her."

Great whites "are not the mindless monsters they are portrayed as," she added in a separate post.


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