This Is Why We Dive

Posted Jan 10th 2007 11:00AM by Willy Volk
Filed under: Photography, Flora & Fauna, Indian Ocean, This Is Why We Dive

To get an adrenaline rush!

Pelagic Drifter caught this beautiful shot of a tiger shark off South Africa on New Year's Eve. There are so many things I love about this image: I love the beautiful spottles on the shark. I love that there's a diver in the background -- which adds a lot of depth to the shot -- taking a photo of the shark. I love that there are 47 shades of blue in the image. And I love the forboding feeling I get when I notice that, um, another shark is circling. Look out behind you!

If you have any forboding underwater images, how about adding them to Divester's Flickr pool? If you do, we'll feature them on Divester.

Reader Comments

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1. GOD. I think if that were me, I'd NEVER GET BACK IN THE WATER AGAIN.

AMAZING shot.

Posted at 11:38AM on Jan 10th 2007 by Chookooloonks

2. This is one of the most amazing and beautiful pictures I have ever seen. My hat's off to you, sir!

Posted at 12:14PM on Jan 10th 2007 by Andrea Ferrari

3. I love this picture - and I loved it when it was sent to me LAST YEAR by another diver. Unfortunately it COULD NOT have been taken on New Year's Eve.

If you want proof have a look at www.rogerhorrocks.com/tiger-sharks/ Roger Horrocks is the photographer and the photo is captioned.

All of that is really not relevant - the point is that South Africa has some of the most incredible diving, possibly in the world. From spectacular shark diving to warm water tropical reef paradises - I would challenge all divers to come here and experience South Africa's underwater splendour.

Posted at 8:19AM on Jan 14th 2007 by NickiB

4. NickiB, I think you're right. However, I wrote that, because the Flickr label reads "Taken on December 31, 2006."

Posted at 8:25AM on Jan 14th 2007 by Willy

5. Hi all, the New Year's confusion arose because for a while I have been in the habit of using Photoshop's 'Save to Web" feature to prepare my images for web upload. That has the unfortunate side effect of destroying all of the EXIF data! So no, the pic was not taken on New Years Eve, I just uploaded I newer version of the pic! Thanks for all the postive feedback though, really encourages me to get back out there into the blue!

Posted at 5:16AM on Jan 22nd 2007 by Roger Horrocks

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