great white shark shows off dagger sharp teeth

great white shark shows off dagger sharp teeth
Incredible images from the deep show a great white shark named Nelson flashing the camera a toothy smile as he stalks a lure just under the ocean's surface.Show more

One particularly gripping image shows the deadly shark with its jaw open displaying its 300 dagger-sharp teeth chasing a lure through the water.
Another stirring photo shows the sharks strength as it thrashes through the water in pursuit of the lure creating bubbles and waves all around.
The sharks were captured on underwater camera near Guadalupe Island, Mexico, off the coast of Baja California and some 250 miles south of San Diego and the southern border.

These death-defying images were taken by shark photographer Euan Rannachan, who spends much of his time diving with the Be A Shark Team off Guadalupe Island in Mexico.

'In this series of photos and video you can see a shark named Nelson making his way straight up towards me and at the last second ducking down under the surface of the water,' said Euan.

'This shows off Nelson doing the jaws pose for me.
'The island is a migration path of a lot of different kinds of seals. With the very deep sides the island is the perfect place for the sharks to do their vertical attacks.

'It was a typical day in the cage. This day happened to be saturated with sharks and we had lots of fish to check out.

'Nelson is a great white shark and they have extra senses than us. They can even feel our heartbeats in the cage.

'They can feel electrical impulses through the water from quite a ways away. However, I was very close, under ten feet from Nelson.
'I love photographing sharks because it's different each time. Some days that's because of the sharks around and other days it's because of the condition of the water we are shooting in.

'I think about the same thing each time something exciting happens around the cage. I hope I got whatever happened in focus, and I pray none of my cameras are full or out of battery.'

Jaws was the famous 1975 summer blockbuster about a man-eating shark which taught audiences to fear going into the water.

It featured an iconic poster of an oversized great white shark emerging from the deep with its mouth agape as a young woman swam above it at the water's surface.
Euan managed to capture Nelson making a similar pose, although the similarities end there as the dimensions of the shark in the Jaws poster are unrealistic.

And, although they are known to hunt seals in such a fashion, fully breaching the water at tremendous speeds, they have never been known to strike a human this way.

Guadalupe Island became known for its great white sharks in 2000 after America’s Shark Boat first visited and discovered great white sharks there.

The average Guadalupe Island white shark grows to 15 feet - although they can exceed 20 feet - and weigh up to 5,000 pounds. They can swim at 15 miles per hour, but they have never attack a human in these waters.
The US has seen 34 shark attacks so far in 2022 but none have been fatal - although six people have died world wide from shark attacks this year.

The Florida Museum shows a trend of increasing shark attacks since the 1980s. Cleaner coastal waters is thought to be partly responsible, with increased fish life attracting larger predators.

'Requiem' sharks are responsible for over a third of shark attacks in Florida, with the more fearsome tiger and great white sharks vastly down the list.

Rannachan, known as euanart on Instagram, is a filmmaker and photographer with www.beashark.team.