This is Why We (Don't) Dive with Great White Sharks

Posted Nov 20th 2006 5:25PM by Bill Reals
Filed under: Photography, Flora & Fauna, Beginners, Experts, Southern Ocean, This Is Why We Dive

I could also title this post, or What Lunch looks like for a Great White Shark (GWS).

This was taken in Seal Island in South Africa, home of the leaping GWS that you see on TV. The footage or frame grab in this case is from the BBC series Planet Earth. This shot is simply amazing, but it does remind me that I really don't want to encounter a GWS without a nice sturdy cage.

Reader Comments

(Page 1)

1. Looks like a photoshop to me. Water behind the shark is a different texture than that in front, and may be a different plane as well. And where's the splash from the seal leaving the water?

Posted at 11:57AM on Nov 21st 2006 by Laserlight

2. That may be why you don't... but this is why I would ;)

http://thorntree.lonelyplanet.com/messagepost.cfm?postaction=reply&catid=33&threadid=852174&messid=7257396&STARTPAGE=1&parentid=0&from=1

Posted at 11:59AM on Nov 21st 2006 by Jernej

	Why walking a labyrinth is good for you Food is fuel -- fill your tank with premium 125 best packaged foods
Opening Ceremony's Olympic activities still rage on Indie Designer Interviews: Finch Metal Jane Mayle call it quits	The REAL reason that your groceries are so expensive: You're paying for them twice! Feast Your Eyes: Chocodiles The New York Times Dining & Wine section in 60 seconds: Mocktails, tomato jam, raspberry figs
50 Cent Eclipses Jay-Z as Hip-Hop's Cash King Balmoral Goes Green Prokhorov Says He Didn't Buy Villa Leopolda Either	Reviving a dying Dead Sea California rejects bisphenol-A ban Oak Ridge Laboratories unveil the "Fridge of the Future"