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A Burst from the Blue

got this shot while on a shark expedition near Seal Island in False Bay, South Africa. We were on a boat a few miles from shore when we saw this shark lunge fo...
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got this shot while on a shark expedition near Seal Island in False Bay, South Africa. We were on a boat a few miles from shore when we saw this shark lunge for a seal about 180 feet from the vessel. It missed the first time but not the second, bursting like a space shuttle through the spray with the panicked seal in its mouth. Following the entire event through my lens, I clicked off six shots when the shark came up. The first three were blurry as the camera autofocused, but the last three were money shots. This photo was the first of those three.
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