Great white shark "Deep Blue"

 



A great white shark called "Deep Blue" is believed to be largest ever filmed and she has surfaced again on a second video by conservationist photographer Mauricio Hoyos Padilla as he tries to bring attention to protecting her.

The video of "Deep Blue," believed to be 50 years old, 20 feet long and weigh about 5,000 pounds, according to WJW-TV, was posted on Padilla's website on Monday and has been viewed nearly 300,000 times and shared more than 30,000 times on his Facebook page.

Padilla is the director of Pelagios-Kakunja, a nonprofit organization that works to improve of the public's knowledge of the movements and migratory patterns of the sea's top predators. For example, the group has tagged pregnant white sharks off Guadalupe Island in the Pacific Ocean to determine their nursery grounds so they could be protected, noted WJW-TV.

Padilla originally photographed "Deep Blue" off Guadalupe Island in 2013 and released a video of the giant shark earlier this year after discovering the file on his computer.

"Deep Blue" was featured last year in a Discovery Channel documentary "Jaws Strikes Back" during the network's "Shark Week" episodes, filmed in partnership with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (see video at end of this story).

"In the documentary, the narrator explains that large, vertical slashes on Deep Blue's left flank could be the result of fights with sharks or mating," said The Daily Mail. "The fish has a large, gaping hole on her right trunk and her dorsal fin and tail appear to be scraped and damaged."

"After researchers tagged the beast, she led them to an elephant seal colony – a typical meal for an adult great white shark."

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The great white shark known as "Deep Blue" is nearly 20 feet long and is thought to be the largest great white ever caught on film. Shark conservationist Mauricio Hoyos Padilla captured footage of the massive beast nearly three years ago, while doing work for Discovery Channel's "Shark Week" programming. At the time, "Deep Blue" was pregnant.

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787 to Santiago

(5-8-15)

Between now and March 2016, we expect to use nine of our new Boeing 787-9 deliveries on routes out of IAH as we transition our fleet based on the fleet changes we announced with our earnings release in April.

The aircraft will fly primarily between IAH and GIG (Rio de Janeiro) and EZE (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and SCL (Santiago, Chile) in South America; FRA (Frankfurt, Germany) and AMS (Amsterdam) in Europe; and LAX and DEN domestically.

While using 787-9s on routes to South America doesn't take full advantage of the aircraft's range, their increased seating capacity allows us to better match our capacity with demand while addressing other fleet constraints and movements.

For example, some of the Boeing 767-300ERs that currently fly the IAH-South America routes will fly trans-Atlantic routes that typically see decreased demand in the winter season, while the higher-capacity 787-9s will meet the higher demand in South America during the winter. In turn, using the 767s on routes previously served by Boeing 757s to Europe enables us to use the 757s on domestic flights such as hub-to-hub and Hawaii routes (see 767s to replace 757s on four trans-Atlantic routes for more information).

The five 787-9s we currently have in our fleet are flying between LAX and MEL (Melbourne, Australia), PVG (Shanghai) and NRT and will continue to do so through the winter season. These are replacing the 787-8s that previously flew these routes and are now flying out of IAH to Europe and Africa.

We will enter these changes into the schedule on May 9.

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United returns to Chile

(united.com 12-5-14)

United Airlines launches its new daily flights between Houston and Santiago, Chile, this Sunday, offering the only nonstop service between the airline's principal Latin American gateway and the Chilean capital.

"The new Santiago service is a great addition to United's Latin American route portfolio," said John Slater, United's vice president of sales for the Americas. "These flights will not only give Houston-area travelers nonstop access to Santiago, but will also provide convenient one-stop connections at the hub to and from dozens of cities in United's global route network, including key markets such as Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington and Tokyo."

Flight 847 will depart Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston daily at 9:35 p.m., arriving at Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport in Santiago at 10:10 a.m. the following day (all times local.) On the return, flight 846 will depart Santiago at 11 p.m., arriving in Houston at 5:55 a.m. the next day.

United will operate the flights using Boeing 767-300 aircraft with a total of 214 seats – 30 flat-bed seats with 180 degree recline in United BusinessFirst and 184 seats in United Economy, including 49 Economy Plus extra-legroom seats. Every customer on the aircraft will have personal on-demand in-seat entertainment.