How I Got the Shot: Photographing Great White Sharks off Cape Cod | National Geographic
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- To get an elusive up-close view of a great white shark off Cape Cod, photographer Brian Skerry and his team relied on a seal decoy, drones, planes, months of patience, and a lightning-quick finger on the camera shutter. In recent years great white sharks have been showing up annually in the waters off the Cape Cod seashore, and unlike the great whites of Australia or South Africa, these sharks don't respond to the usual underwater photographers' techniques. They're not used to humans, so a cage won't work, and they're interested only in gray seals. So what's a photographer to do? Build a gray seal decoy, fly a drone, and keep trying until you get the shot!
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How I Got the Shot: Photographing Great White Sharks off Cape Cod | National Geographic
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This shot is famous now. It’s amazing to see how they nailed it! What a beautiful beast!
Your patience paid off. Thanks for Sharing !
Great pictures! I won't go swimming at Cape Cod ever again.
If your a fattie I would not say that's a good idea.
Smart...cause now there are more than ever
Great footage!
Tolle Aufnahmen und ein wunderschönes Tier.
great idea i love it.all this with sharks
Very cool shots. 12' of water, eh?
Awesome!!!
Exceptional!
all for the sake of one picture.. but damn worth it!!
Super Cool !!!
I'd like to see how the decoy was after the bite.....
I originally thought it said how I got shot
lmao
Oh my hometown at it's most Beautiful 😊💞✌🌎
Knowing that this was taken at cape cod scares me
LOL scares you? I live on Martha's Vineyard, imagine how I feel!! Do not ever go in the water at dusk or at night. In fact, just stay out of the water!!
однако да!
1:21 missing a fin :(
I know this is gonna get me "HEAT" but if you need to be reminded not to text while driving you shouldn't have a license!
Video starts at 2:40
Does anyone know what lens the guy was using?
the super long kind.
Justin Tang one looked like a Sigma 300 lens
Chemtrail at 2:22
RipCod
Making a bigger deal than needs to be about nearly nothing. But it seems that's what people need to do these days. Elevate everything you do. Taking lessons from television and its hype machine.
Coincidence?. This was uploaded with shark week here.
That's why they uploaded it :P
Yeah and shark week I created by discovery which I think is a rivalry, still good because sharks are my favorite animals IMO.
hey man shark week is shark week ok sharks for everyone
Skip to 3:00
not going in the ocean
I've loved great whites since a boy swimming in the waters of cape cod my whole youth, but back then there were hardly any deals, in fact all my tests there I'd never seen a seal, 1962 to 1992, but today I'd be a bit intimidated, I'm a great swimmer, growing up in the ocean, but compared to them, I'd have no chance, what an amazing 400 million years old animal.
Brit here hoping to visit Cape cod for a holiday in a year or so. Don’t think I’m gonna be swimming too far out 😳
How big was that shark? It looked huge and especially wide! Awesome Job!
they're the size of an f150 truck ....those things are no joke.
hope that decoy seal wasn't real
under ocen I'm a kid am 14
Photographing that is quite expensive, I think
If u break the equipment yes
i think he meant the picture that was taken
+Tancredi Beats I meant all the equipment, if that's what you mean?
+Tancredi Beats ohh then probably not for this particular photo bc there's so many photos of sharks
+MiguelPMPM all the equipment would be expensive but bc he works for national geographic he wouldn't have to pay for it all
WHAT ARE YOU SOME KIND OF ASTRONAUT ? camera goes in the water you go in the water sharks in the water ,,farewell and adaeu my fine spanish ladies ,, this beast ruined my morning swim and walk ion surf at falmouth heights this morning
All that effort and money for a mediocre shot.
WOW
#BESTPHOTOEVER!!
Isn't Cape Cod a hub for rich, spoiled people?! A few sharks up there are quite normal..
Beautiful animals but making them breech the water like that causes them to lose extensive energy and literally thousands of calories for no gain
1:56 What are you? Some kind of a half-assed astronaut?
I wanna get bitten lol
Rest in peace
yeah same idk why
ok.im hungry i eat u ®
+MaxedOut believe me when I say neither one of you wants to get bitten. and if you do then think of this. a great white bites with 3000 pounds per share inch. just hammer razor blades into a 2 x 4 piece of wood take another piece of wood and do the same. then lay your body , any part you want , on the board with razors then drop the other board on top with a 3000 pound weight strapped to the board. you DONT want to be even grazed by a 3000 pound weight filled with razor blades. that's essentially what your saying you want.
Better pictures exist showing white sharks eating real prey, not just plastic stuff.
"These sharks are truly wild and are not interested in people" Really? What an asinine statement that is... Please explain how the shark attacks on PEOPLE here on Cape Cod have increased....
1 year later and things seem to be getting worse
They have
Lori Summers there's certain factors that causes the sharks to attack.
If sharks were really interested in humans there would be several people killed every week instead of an average of 1 per year.