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DAVID DOUBILET AND JENNIFER HAYES: Diving With Sharks!
Chapter 2: Swimming With Seals
RHIAN WALLER: Keeping Your Cool!
Photographer David Doubilet comes face-to-face with some Caribbean reef sharks. (Photo Credit p1.1)
A tiger shark feeds on a dead sperm whale. (Photo Credit p1.1.1)
The radio on the boat crackled to life. David Doubilet and his wife and diving partner, Jennifer Hayes, listened closely. A dead sperm whale had been sighted off the reef of Cairns in Australia. This was rare. There had not been a sperm whale carcass sighting in 30 years. Ten large tiger sharks were feeding on the whale. David knew they had to photograph it.
It’s unusual to see sharks feeding in the wild. Sometimes sharks are hand-fed during tours so tourists can dive and see them. David and Jennifer knew that this natural feeding would be a special opportunity.
They set the boat’s coordinates (sounds like co-ORE-din-its) to where the whale had been spotted, and sped along the water as fast as they could. Yet when they arrived at their destination, there was no whale to be seen. The wind and tide
