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Video captures huge great white off Baja
Shark researcher leaves cage and touches the fish as it swims past
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Video footage was released this week of a great white shark believed to be the largest ever recorded.
Mexican marine biologist and shark specialist Mauricio Hoyos Padilla posted the video on his Facebook page, although it is believed to have been shot last year for a Discovery Channel documentary in which the scientist participated.
At one point in the video Hoyos Padilla leaves the protection of the shark cage, located near Guadalupe Island off the coast of Baja California, and touches the shark, which has been named Deep Blue.
The six-meter-long great white, pregnant at the time, was the largest the scientist had ever seen. It has been tagged so as to track its location.
Distinctive scars on its back are believed to have been caused by bites that occurred during sex.
The great white shark was made famous by Jaws, first a novel and then a film, and made the fish appear to be a dangerous man-eater. But humans are not, according to Wikipedia, it’s preferred diet.
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