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Diver snapped swimming with "world's largest great white shark" Deep Blue

Two shark researchers and conservationists, Ocean Ramsey and Juan Oliphant, came face-to-face with the beast off Oahu's north shore in Hawaii.
PUBLISHED JAN 19, 2019

A photo of two divers posing with what is believed to be the largest great white shark in existence is going viral across social media. The two shark researchers and conservationists, Ocean Ramsey and Juan Oliphant, came face-to-face with the 20ft-long (6 meter) great white, named Deep Blue, near a dead sperm whale off Oahu's north shore in Hawaii and are looking to use the opportunity to push for legislation that would protect the marine creatures in the state.

While there are laws against the sale of their fins in many states, great white sharks are not one of the animals on the federally protected list despite the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listing them as a vulnerable species.


 
 
 
 
 
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According to the Guardian, Ramsey operates the Oahu-based One Ocean Diving and Research facility with Oliphant, who is her fiance, and that she has been advocating for a bill that will ban the killing of sharks and rays in Hawaii for the past several years.

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