{"id":5971,"date":"2008-10-04T05:35:28","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T13:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/portfolio\/guadalupe-2008-great-white-shark-portrait-vertical\/"},"modified":"2020-08-23T07:56:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T23:56:13","slug":"guadalupe-2008-great-white-shark-portrait-vertical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/guadalupe-2008-great-white-shark-portrait-vertical.html","title":{"rendered":"Vertical Photo of Great White Shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a Guadalupe Island <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/html\/great_white_shark.html\">great white shark<\/a> (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Carcharodon_carcharias\">Carcharodon carcharias<\/a><\/em>) first approaches the boat, it is often deep. If there are divers in the cage they typically get a look at the shark as it swims slowly beneath the boat. It seems the shark is surveying things before making a decision to move shallower and approach the boat and cages more closely. Occasionally a shark rises from the deep suddenly, straight up, leveling out only when it reaches or breaks the surface. That&#8217;s what this male white shark did. (You can tell he is a male by his two claspers visible on his ventral surface.)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Great white shark, underwater.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=21362\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Great white shark, underwater, Carcharodon carcharias, Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/great-white-shark-carcharodon-carcharias-image-21362-749036.jpg\" alt=\"Great white shark, underwater, Carcharodon carcharias, Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Great white shark, underwater.<br \/>\nImage ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=21362\">21362<\/a><br \/>\nSpecies: <a title=\"Great white shark photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/great_white_shark_photo.html\">Great white shark<\/a>, <a title=\"Carcharodon carcharias photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Carcharodon_carcharias\"><i>Carcharodon carcharias<\/i><\/a><br \/>\nLocation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?location=guadalupe_island_(isla_guadalupe)&amp;state=baja_california&amp;country=mexico\">Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe)<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=baja_california&amp;country=mexico\">Baja California<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=mexico\">Mexico<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shark Diving resources: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horizoncharters.com\/\">Horizon Charters<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharkdiver.com\/\">SharkDiver.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check out our hundreds of additional <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/guadalupe_island_photo.html\">Guadalupe Island photos<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/html\/great_white_shark.html\">photos of great white sharks<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a Guadalupe Island great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) first approaches the boat, it is often deep. If there are divers in the cage they typically get a look at the shark as it swims slowly beneath the boat. It seems the shark is surveying things before making a decision&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,168,89,194],"tags":[250,251,281],"class_list":{"0":"post-5971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-great-white-shark","8":"category-guadalupe-island","9":"category-mexico","10":"category-sharks","11":"tag-great-white-shark","12":"tag-guadalupe-island","13":"tag-mexico"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}