Is This the Biggest Great White Shark Ever Seen, and Did It Just High-Five a Diver?

Some ecotourists off Mexico’s Guadalupe Island had a cruise they’ll never forget.


http://www.takepart.com/video/2015/07/12/great-white-shark-biggest-high-five-diver


June 13, 2015 By Taylor Hill

Taylor Hill is TakePart's associate environment and wildlife editor.

The great white shark that fills the screen in this YouTube video could very well be the largest ever recorded.

But that’s not even the most amazing part. Just seconds into the video, a diver seems to reach out from behind the safety of a dive cage and give a high-five to the lumbering, pregnant animal.

That strikes us as just about the worst idea ever—but in this case it was for the shark’s own good.

Dive master Joel Ibarra was working on ecotourism cruise off Guadalupe Island, Mexico, when the group encountered the behemoth shark, estimated to be 22 feet long.

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