Picture of the Day: SHAAAARRRK!

Photograph by Amanda Brewer

In this incredible GoPro capture by Amanda Brewer, we get up close and personal with a female Great White Shark off the coast of Seal Island in Mossel Bay, South Africa. Brewer, who is an elementary school art teacher, snapped the photo this summer while interning at White Shark Africa, an eco-tourism and animal conservation organization.

In an interview with Time, Brewer explains:

“I wasn’t even a little bit frightened. When you’re there and you’re in their presence, it’s not scary. They’re beautiful and graceful, and you can see how intelligent they are.”

The incredible photo was recently featured as GoPro’s Photo of the Day.

Amanda Brewer via GoPro Photo of the Day

Read more: http://twistedsifter.com/2014/10/great-white-shark-gopro-amanda-brewer/

Picture of the Day: SHAAAARRRK!

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Things You Didn’t know Could Kill You

Let’s all ride sharks to work! Video available at: http://www.youtube.com/v/jGQvoMPJkhM.

Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/dimitri/things-you-didnt-know-could-kill-you

Things You Didn’t know Could Kill You

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Incredible Photos Of Woman Dancing With Deadly Tiger Sharks

She isn’t wearing any diving or protective gear, either.

Model and “mermaid” Hannah Fraser decided to swim underwater with the world’s deadliest shark species, tiger sharks, in the Bahamas.

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Shawn Heinrich

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Fraser decided to do a performance to protest against the Australian shark cull and the global slaughter of sharks.

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Shawn Heinrich

Hannah was devoid of any scuba or protective gear, dressed only in a bikini and airbrush body paint.

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Fraser said: “I was feeling very anxious the first time I got in the water with the tiger sharks. I learned how to touch them in the right way to allow a connection that they felt comfortable with.”

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She continued: “We are currently killing over 100 million sharks per year, whereas there are only five reported human fatalities by sharks per year worldwide. Who are the real dangerous predators in this equation?”

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Fraser and photographer Shawn Heinrich will continue their work in a new feature film Tears of a Mermaid, to be released next year.

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Here’s the video of Fraser in action.

Video available at: http://vimeo.com/97393577.

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Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/rossalynwarren/incredible-photos-of-woman-dancing-with-deadly-tiger-sharks

Incredible Photos Of Woman Dancing With Deadly Tiger Sharks

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Shark Diving

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Shark Diving

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