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Amitkumar
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« on: February 15, 2011, 04:01:54 AM » |
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Sharks Up Close: 'shark shepherd' Jim Abernethy photographs the fearsome predators
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Amitkumar
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« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2011, 04:02:16 AM » |
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Jim Abernethy, 52, from Florida, has spent 35 years living with the largest and most feared sharks on Earth. Some even follow him around like dogs. Jim has used his relationship with sharks to take close up pictures of the predatory fish in their natural habitats in the Bahamas, Mexico and South Africa and has released a book of his photographs - Sharks Up Close.
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Amitkumar
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« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2011, 04:02:36 AM » |
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Jim has spent on average 320 days a year living with sharks. Pictured above are lemon sharks at the surface near Tiger Beach off the coast of the Bahamas
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Amitkumar
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« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2011, 04:02:56 AM » |
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"I spend 11 months a year on board ship and I spend one month a year in nature," explained Jim. "I don't have a life... no kids or wife or anything. For the last 20 plus years my life has been about shooting both video and stills of sharks"
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Amitkumar
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« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2011, 04:03:11 AM » |
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Each day Jim jumps from his boat and swims with the sharks for five or six hours, taking photographs and guiding his clients. "The creatures I like to be with most are sharks. They're the lions of the sea"
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Amitkumar
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« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2011, 04:03:30 AM » |
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He even has a flying boat, called the Oversear, which is a modified microlight aircraft with a boat instead of wheels. Jim uses the Oversear to take off from the surface of the ocean to take aerial pictures of the underwater beasts. Go to The NEXT Page for More Pictures >>>
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