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DIVING WITH SHARKS: Close up in the Milieu of the Oceanic Predator
BY AL J. VENTER AND WALTER BERNADIS WITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREW WOODBURN
Scheduled for completion 2008 with international editions to follow in the US, Britain and Australasia.
This remarkable book reflects a deep-seated enthusiasm for predators that has been years in the making. Noted underwater photographer, South African-born Andrew Woodburn has been shooting sharks in the oceans of the world and succeeded in capturing many striking images of these denizens. The book follows Al Venter’s Dive South Africa that he co-authored with Cape Town marine archaeologist John H. Visser.
The focus of the book, essentially, is on images. The best pictures, Woodburn concedes, were taken in South African waters, for some time now, regarded as the ‘Shark Centre of the World’. He has dived with sharks in Mocambique, off the Cape, in several Indian Ocean and Pacific locations, but most often, in acknowledged habitats like Aliwal Shoal - where he has spent time with tiger sharks, raggedtooth sharks and blacktips - while guested by Walter Bernardis as well as Protea Banks and Sodwana. Woodburn has captured some of his stunning images of them all.
His pictures don’t need explication. What he presents is totally self evident and includes some astonishing moments, both of the unexpected and of astonishment. How else when he is in the water with, three or four large tiger sharks - the smallest at about three metres long – together with 30 or 40 blacktips in feeding frenzy mode? As he recounts, they’re behind, below, on all sides and sometimes, even between Andrew Woodburn’s legs.
Scheduled for completion 2008 with international editions to follow in the US, Britain and Australasia.
Images from DIVING WITH SHARKS
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All Photographs by Andrew Woodburn
