Take a look at these pearly great whites!
IT wouldn’t be most people’s reaction on getting close up with a great white.
Fearless diver Nicole Chapman grins broadly as she comes within inches of a 16ft shark’s own, rather larger, teeth.
The encounter was captured in clear waters near the Neptune Islands off Adelaide in Australia. Photographer Andrew Fox, 53, said it helped show the softer side of the feared predators.
The tour guide, who runs deep-sea cage dives in the area, said: ‘What else can you do when a shark smiles at you? It was perfect timing when the shark came up and I could lean the camera outside the cage and angle the two of them together.’
Mr Fox’s father Rodney started cagediving expeditions after a horrific great white attack in 1963 inspired him to learn more about the sharks.
His son now leads the dives and a nonprofit research foundation.
Mr Fox added: ‘The more you understand something the more you appreciate and want to protect it.’