Great white shark gets up close and personal with filmmaker
Cheese! A great white shark was ready for her closeup when an Australian filmmaker put his camera in the water a few feet from her jaws.
Filmmaker Dave Riggs captured the dramatic picture off the coast of South Australia while shooting for the Discovery Channel's Shark Week 2015. In a clip released by Discovery, Riggs said the great white is about 4.5 meters, or almost 15 feet in length, and very "inquisitive."
"Great whites don't have hands, so she was researching the area the only way she knows how, that's with her mouth," Riggs said.
Riggs put a partially submerged camera in the water and snapped pictures as the shark surfaced.
He posted the picture on Facebook with the caption "this is how
"This photograph is quite dramatic but it really highlights how awesome these apex predators are," Riggs said in the promo video.
Shark Week 2015 kicks off on July 5.
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