Gray Reef Sharks - Fakarava, French Polynesia

LouwPhotography

Just got back from an amazing trip to French Polynesia a few hours ago. These were taken during a morning drift dive in Fakarava in the Tuamotus. The initial part of the dive is to grab the dead coral on the ocean floor (35 meters) and just watch for several minutes. It's a good time to make sure you look completely uninteresting to sharks! (Actually, they could care less about you so there's nothing to fear.) They mostly hover there letting the strong current pass through their gills.

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2. (with Divers)


Sorry for the picture quality -- they were relatively far away so lighting isn't the best and I haven't finished playing with the curves yet. More to come soon!

-Andrew

Giphsub

Sweet! Thanks for sharing these shots. I am amazed by sharks whenever I see them. Such interesting creatures. As a surfer they scare the sh#@! outta me, but I love seeing them.

dbaker1221

fantastic shots....:ivar .....don't see many shots of that.. thanks

jonh68

LouwPhotography

Giphsub wrote:

Sweet! Thanks for sharing these shots. I am amazed by sharks whenever I see them. Such interesting creatures. As a surfer they scare the sh#@! outta me, but I love seeing them.

Thanks! I think I understand what you mean -- I feel much safer being "at their level" in their ocean versus on the surface where it would be harder to see them coming!

LouwPhotography

One more gray reef shark (I think) from Fakarava. This one is closer from the earlier ones in this thread. But, I couldn't get close enough to get under it well so the background is a little cluttered .



Still working on the rest of the pictures. Hopefully all posted soon!

tonichelle

BAH DUM!

two notes and a villain is born.


cool shots!

LouwPhotography

All done with the underwater pics! The galleries are on our site (http://www.louwphotography.com/fp). Here's a guineafowl puffer in the meantime. C&C always welcome and thanks for having a look!



-Andrew

Blackwood

LouwPhotography wrote:

All done with the underwater pics! The galleries are on our site (http://www.louwphotography.com/fp). Here's a guineafowl puffer in the meantime. C&C always welcome and thanks for having a look!



-Andrew

That's a great one. Very sharp.

Also, thanks for ID'ing the Sixbar Wrasse. I took a shot of one (also in Bora Bora http://www.hypercontrast.com/components/com_expose/expose/img/alb_22/img_1205294100_450_lg.jpg) and had no idea what it was.