This great white shark is at least 20 FEET LONG

Forget Jaws, Sharknado or that talking Australian shark from Finding Nemo -- take a look at Deep Blue, a great white shark that’s apparently the “largest ever caught on camera,” according to the video’s uploader Mauricio Hoyos Padilla:

Padilla, who works with the shark conservation and research organization Pelagios-Kakunjá, had an educated guess on how old Deep Blue is, according to the Washington Post:

Padilla guesses that the 20-something-foot shark is the largest ever caught on camera.

Padilla, who released an earlier Deep Blue video in June, said in a statement accompanying the new video that a shark of this size must be more than 50 years old. Deep Blue’s appearance, he added, “tells me protection and conservation efforts are really working.”

But as majestic as this shark is, Padilla has concerns about Deep Blue’s well-being, especially after she leaves Guadalupe Island to give birth:

The nursery areas are “full of food and free of predators,” he writes. But, he adds, “these areas are close to shore and very vulnerable to several human threats.” Padilla and his team are at Guadalupe this summer to tag the pregnant females living there, in order to track them to their nursery grounds. The idea is to learn more about the shores where sharks give birth, in order to recommend better protection policies.

Basically, Padilla and his team are doing their best to prevent this:

(Image via Mauricio Hoyos Padilla/Slideshare.net)

That being said, it is nevertheless amazing to see a great white shark that big. Sure, it’d be best to view the shark in person, but even on video, Deep Blue looks menacingly beautiful. Here’s Padilla’s video of Deep Blue earlier in June:

You can learn more about how Padilla and his team came to meet the shark over at The Washington Post, and you can learn more about his effort to help Deep Blue over here.

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