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New footage of largest great white shark ever video-tapped

We're not sure this was a great idea, but man, what a photo! (Facebook/Mauricio Hoyos Padilla)

It may have been 40 years since Jaws first became the subject of our nightmares, but now… she’s back.

Well, kind of.

New footage has been released of one of the largest great white sharks to ever be caught on film – the monstrous, more than 20-foot-long creature known as Deep Blue, GrindTV reports.

The enormous predator, which calls Mexico’s Guadalupe Island home, was featured last year by the Discovery Network where part of the tagging effort that involved researcher Mauricio Hoyos Padilla can be found.

This week, Hoyos posted new footage of the same shark to Facebook, under the title, “I give you the biggest white shark ever seen in front of the cages in Guadalupe Island… DEEP BLUE!!!”

Hoyos found the 50-second clip this week on his computer, he told GrindTV, although the footage is from around the same time that the Discovery crew was on site, dating back to the fall of 2013.

The presumably pregnant shark, believed to be around 50-years-old, can be seen probing the objects around and attached to the cage, while mostly ignoring the divers in the roof-less coop.

But, as Deep Blue circles the cage, the brave diver reaches out to give her a high-five – or high-fin – before she carries on with her investigation.

Aside from her colossal size, Deep Blue is also recognizable by her many scars.

In the Discovery special, the narrator explains that the large, vertical slashes on shark’s left flank could be due to fighting with other sharks or mating, the Daily Mail reports.

Guadalupe Island is a seasonal getaway for dozens of great white sharks, but as far as anyone knows, there sizes all pale in comparison to Deep Blue.

As Dr. Seuss would say: one fish, two fish, red fish, HUGE fish.