He was really friendly, just very calm and wasn’t aggravated from everything he’s been through.

“He was very calm and coming close and quite curious, which was great. “I noticed he had scars on him but I didn’t realise to what length until I reviewed the footage later. “You can only speculate* what happened there and to be honest no one … ever really knows what causes that sort of damage to a shark, but the poor guy had a bit of a hard time, I think. “We see sometimes down there the white sharks tracking stingrays because they hunt and eat them and we thought they chase them into shallow reef areas where it’s quite sharp and it might get stuck and cause that sort of damage. “No one has ever seen a shark in a condition like this before,” Mr Spraakman said. Mr Spraakman said they initially thought the scars might have been caused by boat propellers or perhaps the shark had been caught in tuna pens in the area, but they quickly dismissed both theories. He said the film crew could not be certain of what may have caused these marks, as no one had come across a shark so badly injured before. 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.Media_camera There are multiple theories to explain the shark’s impressive scars, including underwater battles to survive. 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.

Pictures of deep blue shark with divers