1x.com - Shark School by Mikael Jigmo

Photos Artists Forum Tutorials Critique Books Buy Prints About

Stumble 1X

Tour

Join

Sign in

Buy this photo

Shark School

Related photos

Write

Mato Pavlovic 4 months ago

Great shot!!! Such a beautiful animals.
I will be going to Durban in April, I plan to dive on Aliwal shoal. I don't have an underwater camera :( Do you know any diving club in Durban which rents UW cameras? Do you have any other tips for diving and photography in Durban as well? Thanks :)

Mikael Jigmo Happy you liked the picture.
Well not sure were you can rent an UW camera there, i am always bringing my own gear, but check with the dive centre who you are diving with if they know anyone renting out UW cameras.
And enjoy diving with the Tiger sharks or the Oceanic Black tip.

Mato Pavlovic Thanks for the reply Mikael. With what dive center you have been diving there - would you recommend them?

Mikael Jigmo African Watersports, and I think they are the best.

Pedro GoniO 3 years ago

Great shot, I hope you will not end doing a macro of this guy's mouth :-)

Mikael Jigmo Pedro

Thank you so much, well sharks are friendly, in the past all photographers like to shoot when the sharks has their mouth open, but we are a few now who are working on to change the humans attitude of sharks from dangerous to humans to what they really are, predators but humans are not their natural food.

Best regards

Mikael

Pedro GoniO Yes, sharks are fascinating as predators and as many other predators. As far as I know, the only natural predator of man is tiger, and even he, has a better reputation than the sharks. IMO, all because of constant and frightening documentaries and films. Regards.

Mikael Jigmo Fully agree, I have talked to a few people who did movies and photos about the sharks in the "old" days, and some of them "regret" them, due to the built a reputation of Sharks which is not correct, and with all the Shark finning still continuing I am afraid shortly their will not be any sharks left.
If you haven't seen Sharkwater you should do so, it is a great movie and also another called Gimme a Hug.

Best regards

Mikael

Lars Grepstad 3 years ago

Busy place! Great shot! From the Sardine run again?

Mikael Jigmo Hi Lars

Yes it was a busy place with 40-50 Oceanic Black Tips.
It was a great dive, they went all up to me, touching my camera and swimming between my legs and arms, it was a great dive.
This was actually from Durban, before we went to Mboyti (Sardine Run), we went for Tiger Sharks dives, but we just have a small Tiger (4,5 m) on the surface before we went in, but when we got in to the water he was gone :-(

All the best

Mikael

Lars Grepstad Wish I can go there soon. Working on getting my wife interested in going to SA. Also for the land animals. Scared her off from diving some years ago. Never take a beginner to a drop-off..

Mikael Jigmo That is true, but let her get some dives prior to this, the shark are friendly but very interested in you.

Peter Kemp 3 years ago

love your underwater pics Mikael Great to see them hereat 1x.com Was diving myself a lot but now with 2 kids ... not enough time anymore .... your pics are great The locations you have been to are key spots in diving I was a big fan of the Red Sea and the offshore islands like the Brothers , Daedalus reef and Sudan I made a web site about these places http://www.redsea-diving.info/ Have you ever been to the Galapagos? Imo that the best diving I ever experienced Top of the bill! I stopped after my last tip to these islands of the famous Charles Darwin Hope you will upload hammerhead sharks once .. those were my favorities Keep up the good work my friend and happy bubbles

f you need info about sudan .. great shark place especially hammerheads let me know

Mikael Jigmo Peter

Thank you for the nice words.
I haven't been to Galapagos yet but it is on the list :-)
I am of to Tasmania in end of July to do some diving there for 3 days only.
My next big expedition is to Antarctica in Feb 2010 on the Elysium Expedition www.elysiumepic.org, I really looking forward to that one.
Well Peter with 2 kids you can always get them to do Bubble Maker course and then when they get a bit older Junior Open Water :-)

All the best

Mikael

Helle Lorenzen 3 years ago

Amazing shot full of life and action with a great light.

Mikael Jigmo Helle

Thank you so much for your nice words.

Best regards

Mikael

Jeroen Oosterhof 3 years ago

What a shot! Gives me the shivers...

Mikael Jigmo Jeroen

Thank you so much for the nice words.
Sharks are predators but humans are not their natural food, so they re interested who we are, and if you behave normally they wont try to taste and see if they like it or not, they just come up closer to look at us.

Best regards

Mikael

Jeroen Oosterhof I understand Mikael and i think they are magnificent creatures.
But i would still be a little nervous down there :)

Take care,

Jeroen

Codrin Lupei 3 years ago

It is a school where I'm not sure I love their clases :) Another stunning one, Mikael, love it! Cheers!

Mikael Jigmo Hi Codrin

Well their classes could be very interesting :-)
We had about 40 -50 of the Oceanic Black Tips swimming around us (we are not in a cage) and they come all the way up to check us up, so sometimes they went to close so I couldn't get my 14 - 24 mm lens to focus on them, but they never tried to taste me or any one else, but you need to know what you do when you are diving with them, but it was a great 60 minutes + dive.
And thanks for your kind words, they men a lot to me.

Best regards

Mikael

Codrin Lupei, Peter Kemp, Mato Pavlovic and 11 more people added this to favorites

Add to favorites

Share this image on StumbleUpon: