![]() So, what is the largest great white shark ever recorded? Randall examined the shark’s jaws and “found that the Port Fairy shark was of the order of 5 m (17 ft) in length and suggested that a mistake had been made in the original record, in 1870, of the shark’s length”. The question of the Port Fairy shark was settled in the 1970s when J. The basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) is the second-largest living fish, after the whale shark, and one of three plankton-eating sharks besides the whale shark and megamouth shark. ![]() This New Brunswick shark may have been a misidentified basking shark, as the two have similar body shapes. Some researchers question these measurements’ reliability, noting they were much larger than any other accurately reported sighting. For decades, many sources including the Guinness Book of World Records listed two great white sharks as the largest individuals: In the 1870s, a 10.9 m (36 ft) great white captured in southern Australian waters, near Port Fairy, and an 11.3 meters (37 ft) shark trapped in a herring weir in New Brunswick, Canada, in the 1930s. This encounter once again swept across international news just adding to her fame! She was positively identified through photographs taken by divers who swam with her as she gorged on the whale and after one incredible day of seeing her.she once again disappeared into the great big ocean to seemingly continue her vast migration.Historically, a number of very large great white shark specimens have been recorded. Incredibly, just as we began post production the big girl did in fact turn up! Not at Guadalupe, but thousands of miles away feeding on a whale carcass off Big Island, Hawaii. It had been a bold and fascinating expedition that was far from easy! Then, just as was we wrapped up shooting and returned to land, incredible news broke many miles away in Hawaii… The legend lives on The technology that we can now use today is just incredible and every time we drop a deep camera or dive into the depths of Guadalupe we always seem to find or see something new and unique. Spending days and nights on the sea floor, the “Phantom” camera captured many large mature female great white sharks and filmed behaviours rarely witnessed before. With no time to loose the next stage was to drop the “Phantom” camera to the bottom of Guadalupe and see if they can get any kind of evidence that the mega sharks are down there. This dive was thrilling for Brandon as he had many close encounters with the resident sharks, culminating in one of the larger females latching onto the bottom of the cage and giving Brandon a ride for his money! No sightings of “Deep Blue” yet so Jimi and Brandon decided to go a little deeper….ĭropping our deep cage into the depths and deploying a deep sea camera called “Phantom”, Jimi and Brandon saw evidence that the deeper they go in the water column, the bigger the sharks seemed to be getting. To begin the search, Brandon took to the cages whilst Jimi lured some of the larger sharks up from the deep. Jimi (obviously with his love of sharks) and Brandon who comes from a long background in animal behaviour, which includes work with many large predators such as lions, tigers and grizzly bears. Brandon and Jimi have worked together on 4 Shark Week projects and we love this partnership as both of them share a real passion for animals. Leading the search alongside Jimi was Brandon McMillan. ![]() Everyone wants to catch a glimpse of her! But the fact is that she is highly elusive and how would you even begin to search for an animal that barely shows herself to the dive boats and most likely stays most of her life in the deep? Well, our team had some ideas up their sleeves…. Its all began back in 2013 when she was famously filmed interacting with one of the cages of a Guadalupe tour operator, showing off her enormous size! Since then, not a trip goes by without someone asking about this particular shark and her name is now famous in the world of shark diving. “Deep Blue” has become an internet sensation over the past years. Planning and post production began midway through 2018 as once again we collaborated alongside some of Guadalupe Island’s leading scientists to continue the search for “Deep Blue.” “Great white abyss” was easily the biggest and most ambitious film our team had been involved in and after its critical success we where soon commissioned to follow it up. In 2017 we made history as we filmed great white sharks deeper than ever before.
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