What does Deep Blue eat?

New footage has emerged showing what appears to be Deep Blue, one of the largest great white sharks ever caught on camera, feasting on a whale carcass off the coast of Hawaii earlier this year.

How did Deep Blue get so big?

Great white sharks need decades to reach adult size, and they continue to grow throughout their lifetimes. So, a much-bigger-than-average shark, like Deep Blue, is likely an older shark.

Is Deep Blue a Megalodon?

The Megalodon was a now extinct prehistoric shark that grew to 60 feet or 20 metres and devoured whales, but some believe some specimens may have survived the extinctions and still lurk in the depths of the ocean. The massive shark has actually been seen before and is nicknamed Deep Blue.

What is the age of Deep Blue?

In the film, they also point out that Deep Blue has a sizeable girth. This could be the result of her being pregnant—or just that she has eaten a lot of sperm whale. Deep Blue is estimated to be about 50 years old and weighs 2.5 tons.

Did Deep Blue give birth?

At one point a diver gave her a high five as she glided by. Shark experts believe Deep Blue is about 50 years old and was possibly pregnant and about to give birth when the encounter took place. Experts said it's possible that she has given birth to more than 100 babies in her lifetime.

Who Scared Away Deep Blue?

How tall is Deep Blue?

Deep Blue, a 20-foot great white shark spotted off the coast of Guadalupe Island, is widely considered to be among the biggest great white sharks ever filmed.

Is there a shark bigger than Deep Blue?

While Deep Blue is thought to rule the ocean as the largest great white shark ever recorded, a few others have been found to follow closely in size. Also found in the ocean near Guadalupe, White Death is thought to be a strong opponent, seemingly around the same size if not larger than Deep blue.

Is Deep Blue a female shark?

The world's biggest recorded great white shark is a female affectionately named Deep Blue. She measures over 6 meters long (20 feet) and scientists think she may already be over 50 years old.

Has Deep Blue been tagged?

Researchers managed to affix a tag to Deep Blue during their expedition. The tag is a scientific device that transmits the shark's depth, location and other data to help researchers better understand the animal's behavior and movement.

Is Deep Blue bigger than Jaws?

The bottom line is that Jaws was by no means over the top when it predicted how large a great white might get, and Deep Blue is pretty much as big as that famous movie shark – and definitely a lot friendlier.

Is there 1 megalodon?

Internet rumors persist that modern-day megalodons exist – that they still swim around in today's oceans. But that's not true. Megalodons are extinct. They died out about 3.5 million years ago.

Is there a 40 foot shark?

Like whale sharks, basking sharks are filter-feeders. While they don't get quite as large as whale sharks, the largest one ever reliably measured was 12.27 metres or just over 40 feet long.

Has anyone beaten Deep Blue?

In the final game of a six-game match, world chess champion Garry Kasparov triumphs over Deep Blue, IBM's chess-playing computer, and wins the match, 4-2.

Who did Deep Blue lose to?

However, Kasparov won three and drew two of the following five games, beating Deep Blue by 4–2 at the close of the match.

Who lost to Deep Blue?

Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov was a pair of six-game chess matches between then-world chess champion Garry Kasparov and an IBM supercomputer called Deep Blue. Kasparov won the first match, held in Philadelphia in 1996, by 4–2. Deep Blue won a 1997 rematch held in New York City by 3½–2½.

What is the most aggressive shark?

1. Great White Shark. Great white sharks are the most aggressive sharks in the world has recorded 333 attacks on humans, with 52 of them being fatal. The inclusion of this particular species probably comes as no surprise since movies, particularly Jaws, and television shows are quick to show their aggression.

Is there a 30 foot great white shark?

The people in this YouTube Short claim they believe the giant shark they encounter is 30 feet long! If they're right, they've just met the longest great white in the world. So far, research shows a famous white shark called Deep Blue as holding the title for the largest great white.

What shark is asexual?

This form of asexual reproduction has also been recorded in other shark species such as whitespotted bamboo sharks, blacktip sharks and bonnethead sharks.

Was Deep Blue pregnant?

Padilla was able to estimate Deep Blue to be over 20 feet (over 6m) and likely, based on shark growth patterns, was over 50 years old, one of the largest and oldest sharks we know of to be living. And the most impressive part? Deep Blue was pregnant.

What is the 1 largest shark?

The largest is the whale shark, which has been known to get as large as 18 meters (60 feet). The smallest fits in your hand. And the great white shark is somewhere in the middle.

What killed the megalodon?

Megalodons succumbed to global cooling due to the shrinking of their habitat, the vanishing of their favorite prey, and competition from other predators 3.5 million years ago.

Is the black demon shark still alive?

The biggest flaw with this explanation is that, despite its appearance in pop culture, the megalodon has been extinct for over 2.5 million years.

What's the biggest megalodon?

Estimates suggest megalodon actually grew to between 15 and 18 metres in length, three times longer than the largest recorded great white shark. It may have been comparable in length to today's biggest whale sharks, the largest of which has measured in at 18.8 metres.