![]() Whatever your passion is, we have an SSI Specialty for your needs, because you can choose from over 20 individual programs. When you complete a certain number specialties, you’ll also automatically earn the SSI Specialty Diver, SSI Advanced Open Water Diver and SSI Master Diver ratings. These ratings display your competency and build a solid base for more adventures to come. If you can’t decide which Specialty programs are the best choice for you, take SSI’s Advanced Adventurer program! SSI´s Advanced was created so that you can try out 5 Specialty Programs before you commit to completing one or more full programs. It’s a great way to experience what advanced training is all about with the option to receive credit towards the full Specialty certification any time after. This enticing bundle is a great way to get certified to dive deeper, enjoy longer dives, go night diving and more – ensuring you are on the right track to qualify for the coveted SSI Divemaster rating and got the necessary qualifications… Save with our popular Divemaster Specialty bundle. You probably already know about Deep Blue without realizing it. Thanks to her size, she has become famous the world over and brings awareness to the misconceptions about sharks, and their threatened and endangered lifestyles. But before I start on why Deep Blue is so important, I’ll start by giving you some more information about who Deep Blue is and what we know of her. The first known recording of Deep Blue was actually back in 1999 (Shark Diving Xperts), but at the time she was only known as just another great white shark. She was spotted off the coast of Guadalupe Island, an infamous island in the Pacific Ocean off of Mexico, known for its high concentrations of great white sharks. She only became the famous Deep Blue, however, in 2013. She was caught on video swimming up to a shark cage, again off of Guadalupe Island. Mauricio Hoyos worried Deep Blue was coming too close to the cage, so swam out of the cage to push her away Inside the cage, shark researcher and conservationist Dr. Photo of Ocean Ramsay swimming with the pregnant Haole Girl. Spotted pregnant gives the world an amazing glimpse into this little known part Mating and reproduction, so having the most famous living shark commonly be Great white sharks are elusive when it comes to Most amazing facts about Deep Blue is that multiple times when she has been Research and by going viral, help educate the public about sharks and shark The answer lies in the fact that these sharks provide critical information for Matter in the end that Ocean Ramsay swam with Haole Girl instead of Deep Blue? Important to keep track of her any more than other great whites? Does it really So in the end, why does Deep Blue matter? Why is it Photo credit: Juan Oliphant, One Ocean Diving Haole Girl was estimated to be over 20 ft long and over 8 ft wide at the time. Reach sexual maturity until very late in life, estimated to be around 26 yearsįor males and 33 years for females by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Great white sharks are oviviparous, which is a fancy term for saying they growĪnd lay eggs inside the mother, who then keeps the living young in the wombĭuring gestation. Females have an eleven month gestation period before givingīirth in spring and summer. Reproduction cycle is extremely slow, starting from the great whites taking so This long gestation period means females usuallyīreed every other year, sometimes even skipping years depending on variousįactors such as scarce food or availability of mates. This all causes great white sharks to be extremely vulnerable to populationĭrops due to hunting, scarce food from overfishing, and unsuccessful Long to reach sexual maturity to long gestation periods and infrequent mating. ![]() ![]() Pregnancies or health problems caused by bioamplification.
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