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Great Australian Bight

Juvenile Xenocephalus australiensis by Theo Robotis
Juvenile Xenocephalus australiensis
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date posted posted: (Last month)
date posted category: Temperate Waters
date posted location: Great Australian Bight Australia
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Smile!! - This cute sub 5m female Great White has the per... by Sam Cahir
Smile!! - This cute sub 5m female Great White has the perfect smile. This photo I particularly like as it gives her some character and goes a long way to dispelling the myth caused by all the open mouth aggressive GWS shots.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, November 06, 2012
date posted category: Sharks
date posted location: Great Australian Bight Australia
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Scream - Paris the Short Fin Mako taken at North Neptune ... by Sam Cahir
Scream - Paris the Short Fin Mako taken at North Neptune Island, South Australia.This feisty sub 3m female mako shark turned up during a Great White Shark tagging trip chasing away a 5m Great White. She loved the camera just like Paris Hilton
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date posted posted: Tuesday, November 06, 2012
date posted category: Sharks
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Majesty - This shot shows a female white shark showing do... by Sam Cahir
Majesty - This shot shows a female white shark showing dominance towards another white shark (if you look hard you can see the other one in front of her nose). The lowered pecs is not an aggressive sign but does show she is the more dominent
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date posted posted: Wednesday, September 19, 2012
date posted category: Sharks
date posted location: Great Australian Bight Australia
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Meet Moo!!!, This 4+ Metre male Great White shark has ret... by Sam Cahir
Meet Moo!!!, This 4+ Metre male Great White shark has returned 12 years in a row to the Neptune Islands in South Australia. This shot was taken by laying on the marlin board of the boat and leaning the camera into the water.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, September 19, 2012
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Playing around on the back of the boat with over/under sh... by Sam Cahir
Playing around on the back of the boat with over/under shots and a playful teenage white shark. Pole Cams are for pussies, real men lay on the back of the marlin board and hold the camera underwater, definitely gets the heart racing.
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date posted posted: Monday, September 17, 2012
date posted category: Sharks
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"Red Eyed Dragon". Leafy Seadragon taken off Kangaroo Isl... by Richard Wylie
"Red Eyed Dragon". Leafy Seadragon taken off Kangaroo Island.
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date posted posted: Saturday, June 02, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Marine Life
date posted location: Great Australian Bight Australia
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Jelly Fish Australia ,Port Phillip Bay Victoria Nikon by Linley Jean-Yves Bignoux
Jelly Fish Australia ,Port Phillip Bay Victoria Nikon
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date posted posted: Sunday, May 06, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Great Australian Bight Australia
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Leafy Seadragon in Profile. Taken off Kangaroo Island in ... by Richard Wylie
Leafy Seadragon in Profile. Taken off Kangaroo Island in South Australia as part of research project earlier this year.
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 21, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Marine Life
date posted location: Great Australian Bight Australia
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Wide Open Ocean ,Australia ,Melbourne EOS 7D by Linley Jean-Yves Bignoux
Wide Open Ocean ,Australia ,Melbourne EOS 7D
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date posted posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Divers
date posted location: Great Australian Bight Australia
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Who are you looking at? Leafy Seadragon taken off Kangaro... by Richard Wylie
Who are you looking at? Leafy Seadragon taken off Kangaroo Island in South Australia - very interactive and interested seadragon who kept watching to see what I was doing.
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date posted posted: Monday, February 27, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Great Australian Bight Australia
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It is a widely held misconception that Great White sharks... by Sam Cahir
It is a widely held misconception that Great White sharks only breach in South Africa. Freckles is a 4m male who is an aerial specialist attacking baits at up to 56 K's an hour to enable him to launch his entire body out of the water.
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 23, 2012
date posted category: Sharks
date posted location: Great Australian Bight Australia
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"Synchronised swimming" These two dolphins buzzed by righ... by Richard Wylie
"Synchronised swimming" These two dolphins buzzed by right past me while working with KI Dolphin Watch research in early January - studying and identifying wild bottlenose dolphins in the cool temperate waters off Kangaroo Island.
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date posted posted: Friday, February 03, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Natural Light (no strobe)
date posted location: Great Australian Bight Australia
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Sea Lion Silhouette, Just under Rye pier on Mornington pe... by Phil Davison
Sea Lion Silhouette, Just under Rye pier on Mornington peninsula, there are a couple of Australian Fur seal pups who've made their home & show their cheeky side by taking fish and squid from the fishermen! Canon S90 w INON UFL165, 1/400 F2.2 ISO80

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date posted posted: Wednesday, February 01, 2012
date posted category: Temperate Waters
date posted location: Great Australian Bight Australia
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Canon EOS 7D ,minimal light ,minimal flash ,Ikelite DS 15... by Linley Jean-Yves Bignoux
Canon EOS 7D ,minimal light ,minimal flash ,Ikelite DS 150 single strobe,Melbourne ,Australia
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 31, 2012
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Same leafy seadragon but up close - these guys are amazin... by Richard Wylie
Same leafy seadragon but up close - these guys are amazing animals and so photogenic! Sorry had uploaded the wrong photo - this was the one I meant to post (i.e. not cut off)...
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 15, 2012
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Leafy Seadragon (Phycodurus eques) in profile - taken off... by Richard Wylie
Leafy Seadragon (Phycodurus eques) in profile - taken off Kangaroo Island
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'Shaggy'. This 4m Great White cruised in while we were d... by Sam Cahir
'Shaggy'. This 4m Great White cruised in while we were deploying acoustic listening stations to track GWS movements in the Neptune Islands, South Australia.
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 08, 2011
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'White Tip' the 4.5m male Great White. Taken during a sc... by Sam Cahir
'White Tip' the 4.5m male Great White. Taken during a scientific expedition to deploy acoustic listening stations (to track tagged GWS) in the North Neptune Islands, South Australia. 3 December 2011.
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date posted posted: Sunday, December 04, 2011
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My Giant. Giant Australian Cuttlefish. Taken at Tumby B... by Jamie Coote
My Giant.
Giant Australian Cuttlefish.
Taken at Tumby Bay jetty SA.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 30, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Marine Life
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This was taken while on a tour for Museum Victoria lookin... by Richard Wylie
This was taken while on a tour for Museum Victoria looking for leafy seadragons under Rapid Bay Jetty - no leafys but beautiful nonetheless!
Taken with a canon D10 compact
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date posted posted: Monday, November 28, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Natural Light (no strobe)
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"Ascidian Glow" Growing on a jetty pylon at Tumby Bay SA. by Jamie Coote
"Ascidian Glow"
Growing on a jetty pylon at Tumby Bay SA.
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date posted posted: Saturday, October 08, 2011
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Great Australian Bight Australia
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Meet Chainsaw the little 3.5m Great White. The lens make... by Sam Cahir
Meet Chainsaw the little 3.5m Great White. The lens make him look small but he's a feisty little bugger. Chainsaw has a huge chunk out of his head (unfortunately the other side from this pic) and really does look he's been in the wars.
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Meet Bruce, the smiling 5m male great white. Bruce was o... by Sam Cahir
Meet Bruce, the smiling 5m male great white. Bruce was one of 5 whites that circled us during the dive, making for a nerve racking ascent. Taken at 24m at the Neptune Islands, South Australia using a Nikon D700 16mm & 1.4x converter.
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Watching Great Whites in their natural environment (in th... by Sam Cahir
Watching Great Whites in their natural environment (in this case down at 26 metres) is an incredible site. On this dive we had 5 GW's encircle us including this 4.5m male. Certainly made getting back to the surface interesting.
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 25, 2011
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Surprise!! While sitting patiently watching a big Great ... by Sam Cahir
Surprise!! While sitting patiently watching a big Great White playing with some sea weed, this 4+m male GW scared the hell out of me as he snuck by for an ultra close pass. Evidently I don't taste good.
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Introducing Kiwi the 4.4m female Great White. The orange... by Sam Cahir
Introducing Kiwi the 4.4m female Great White. The orange acoustic tag was deployed by Andrew Fox (The great Rodney Fox's son) and is monitored by the CSIRO for their study of GW's. taken at the Neptune Islands South Australia August 2011.
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