Carotid artery. Carotid artery disease is caused by a buildup of plaques in arteries that deliver blood to your brain. Plaques are clumps of cholesterol, calcium, fibrous tissue and other cellular debris that gather at microscopic injury sites within the artery. This process is called atherosclerosis.
One of the biggest great white sharks ever caught on tape. Before you go, we thought you'd like these... Nicknamed 'Deep Blue,' this great white is almost as long as the 22-foot-long boat the researchers were aboard near Guadalupe, Mexico, nearly 165 miles away from mainland.
âBiggest great white shark ever filmedâ surfaces in newly released video. August 10, 2015 By Pete Thomas. Deep Blue approaches cage divers. Two months ago we shared newly released footage of a massive great white shark that was being referred to as perhaps the largest white shark ever recorded on video. The Facebook clip garnered 7 million views, and on Monday more footage of the same shark was posted to Facebook by the same researcher, Mauricio Hoyos Padilla.