The selfie trend has been embraced by everyone from astronauts and fighter pilots to world leaders and the Pope.
But Dutch conservation photographer Peter Verhoog decided to go one step further – by posing for a personal shot with a passing great white shark.
The 59-year-old, a director of the Dutch Shark Society, leaned out of the divers’ cage to capture these spectacular frames off the coast of Guadeloupe, Mexico. […]
Peter, who shot the startling selfies in September, said: รขโฌลI began making selfies with all kinds of sharks รขโฌโ mostly for fun.
รขโฌลOnly later I realized that they could show people what sharks are like รขโฌโ when behaving normally, there is no danger.
รขโฌลPeople are not a prey for great white sharks รขโฌโ they feed on fish and marine mammals like seals.
รขโฌลFurthermore, they are careful predators, and sometimes examine people by bumping into them, or taking a bite รขโฌโ the famous ‘mistaken identity’.
รขโฌลThen they let go รขโฌโ we are just not as fat and nourishing as a seal is. But a bite can be fatal.
รขโฌลWe are not on the menu, but we can be in the way.รขโฌย
See The Telegraph
http://youtu.be/uZkUiOnFipQ
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