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The world's largest fish - whale sharks, which can be up to 20 metres
long - gather off Mafia Island, Tanzania, between November and January.
They come to filter-feed on the masses of plankton there. Local
fishermen use them to locate shoals of small fishes, which shelter
around them, and Gavin used fishing boats to locate the giants. 'We
found a shark being shadowed by a couple of boats,' says Gavin. 'It
moved under our boat and just hung there, possibly sheltering from the
glare. As I slipped into the sea and it lifted its huge head, the little
fishes fled for fear of being chased to the surface.'
Nikon D70 with 16mm fisheye lens; 1/125 sec at f8; 200 ISO; Sea and Sea
housing with fisheye dome port.
The Natural History Museum’s Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is open to the public from Saturday 21 October 2006 – Sunday 29 April 2007.
The Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is owned by the Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine, and is sponsored by Shell.
Wildlife
Photographer of the Year
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