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The photograph I captured isn’t just an image of a predator. It’s a story about resilience, about the delicate balance b...
12/16/2024

The photograph I captured isn’t just an image of a predator. It’s a story about resilience, about the delicate balance between fear and respect. Fat Albert wasn’t a monster. He was a keeper of this place, a living piece of its history.

King Penguin, caught in the act of unconditional love❤️ and motherhood.On the magnificent island of South Georgia. Next,...
12/13/2024

King Penguin, caught in the act of unconditional love❤️ and motherhood.

On the magnificent island of South Georgia. Next, a Master photographic expedition is forming now for 2026. Aimed to capture and enjoy the beautiful light during the Southern springtime, September and October. With an intimate team of only eight spirited photographers. Reservation open.

The image I captured that day has stayed with me, not as a triumph, but as a reminder of the silent costs of human activ...
11/29/2024

The image I captured that day has stayed with me, not as a triumph, but as a reminder of the silent costs of human activity. That net didn’t belong in the fjord, yet there it was, dragging down one of the ocean’s most intelligent and graceful creatures.

With great experience getting out of Antarctica and with already plan to return 🇦🇶👍🤗
11/22/2024

With great experience getting out of Antarctica and with already plan to return 🇦🇶👍🤗

On my 17 trip to Antarctica 🇦🇶 as a guest lecture lonboard the exceptional vessel M/V Sylvia Earle operate by Aurora Exp...
11/12/2024

On my 17 trip to Antarctica 🇦🇶 as a guest lecture lonboard the exceptional vessel M/V Sylvia Earle operate by Aurora Expeditions.

On my way to Antarctica 🇦🇶 on 17 trips I am leading since 2001. This time as a guest lecture onboard on of my favourite ...
11/12/2024

On my way to Antarctica 🇦🇶 on 17 trips I am leading since 2001. This time as a guest lecture onboard on of my favourite vessel M/V Sylvia Earle, with Aurora Expeditions. This is an exceptional vessel to cross the notorious Drake passage.

Australia 2024: Echoes of a Legend — Great Whites & the Legacy of Rodney Fox The cage descended slowly, guided by the di...
11/04/2024

Australia 2024: Echoes of a Legend — Great Whites & the Legacy of Rodney Fox

The cage descended slowly, guided by the dive master’s hand, until the light above faded and the water closed in. At 86 feet in the waters off North Neptune Island, the steel frame swayed gently with each pulse of the current. The cold seeped through my 7mm wet suit, settling into places you can’t fully insulate—along my spine, in my fingertips. Down here, time felt different—it was as if the sea itself absorbed time, stretching it out into something endless.

It had been 42 years since my first dive here with Rodney Fox. In 1982, Rodney wasn’t just a guide; he was already legend—a man who had survived a brutal encounter with a great white and turned that brush with death into a mission to understand and protect these apex predators. His wisdom shaped how I approached the ocean and these creatures, taught me to see them not as monsters, but as beings of immense power and grace.
Today, Rodney and his son Andrew weren’t with us on the boat, but the echo of his influence felt close. I knew we’d be sitting down together later that evening in Adelaide to share stories over dinner. But here, below the surface, the reunion was with the sea itself.

The cage came to rest on the seabed, groaning softly under the weight of the ocean above. Above us, the dive master scattered chum, letting the scent rise through the currents. It would drift out into the blue, like a question waiting for an answer. . Earlier, we had spent time in the shallows with the long-nose Australian fur seals—joyful, darting creatures that made the water feel alive. Their grace was almost childlike, and they greeted us with a joy that seemed to make the shallows brighter, warmer. They moved like children at play, full of exuberance. But here, below, the mood was different.

Kneeling at the open cage door, I positioned myself just above the seagrass. Around us, the Trevally swarmed—a living silver curtain, shifting and shimmering as they flashed through the water. They moved in tight circles, blocking my view, their bodies a blur of motion. I waited, my patience fraying, when a change came over the water—a sense that something large and ancient was approaching.

The Trevally parted like a veil, and the shark appeared, gliding into view with a calm that spoke of a different order of time. It moved with an ease that seemed to claim the water as its own. I raised my camera and pressed the shutter, capturing it just feet from the cage. Its immense form filled the frame, the great white shark, as if carved from the ocean itself—smooth, powerful, moving to some deep rhythm I could almost feel.

It circled back, slipping into the blue before emerging again, the Trevally closing in and then scattering, drawn to and away from the shark like moths to flame. It was as if the ocean was staging a dance, letting me glimpse the shark’s power for a moment before closing the curtain of fish once more.

Back on the boat, we gathered around the footage, still caught in the moment’s grip. We spoke in low voices, as if the dive demanded a kind of reverence. There was a quiet confidence in the shark’s movements, as though it knew these waters as its own long before we set foot here, its rhythm slow and unyielding, like the tide. It moved to the beat of something older than memory, something shaped by the pull of the moon and the drift of the earth beneath the sea.

That evening, at dinner, Rodney's stories wove through the room like the current, carrying us back to the early days of shark diving, when each encounter was an unknown. He spoke of his work on Jaws, how he had helped the world see these sharks not as mindless killers, but as animals with a role in the ocean’s ancient order.

Next year marks the 50th anniversary of Jaws, and Rodney and I are planning a special expedition to mark the occasion. There’s no one alive who has spent more time with great whites than Rodney Fox. To be at his side on this journey feels like coming full circle.

The day’s dive stayed with me as I lay in bed that night, the images playing through my mind. The great white circling the cage, the quiet exchange we had shared—it was all connected, part of a story much older than any of us. The ocean’s stories are never finished; they reach out through time, always urging us to listen, to dive back in, and to keep searching for the truths only the sea can tell.

Joyful team that were with me in South Australia to dive and film Great white shark - I am leading next team in December...
10/28/2024

Joyful team that were with me in South Australia to dive and film Great white shark - I am leading next team in December 2025…. 50 years anniversary for the movie 🎥 Jaws, with the legendary Rodney Fox who is the pioneer in Great White 🦈

Day three on this epic diving experience to learn appreciate and share time with Great white shark in South Australia wi...
10/24/2024

Day three on this epic diving experience to learn appreciate and share time with Great white shark in South Australia with Rodney Fox team

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Two of the key images of today - Great white shark, Australia...from a bottom cage lowered to 27 meter ...it is very bum...
10/24/2024

Two of the key images of today - Great white shark, Australia...from a bottom cage lowered to 27 meter ...it is very bumpy down below to be held by cable to surface, the sensation is exhilarating👍👍in trying to aim, focus and freeze a moment of an APEX predator at a treat from poachers🤔

The world underwater delivers excellent visual better than any Hollywood movie, 🎥 only when you are ready to share the a...
10/23/2024

The world underwater delivers excellent visual better than any Hollywood movie, 🎥 only when you are ready to share the adventure underwater and far away from home...Austrlia deliver on the first day first dive in a cage lower, like an elevator to 26 meter below = 86 feet Great white shark 3.6 meter = 12. 4 feet long, showed swimming easily over the bottom, circling slowly around the deep cage, showing us its mother nature gifts. In over 45 years filming Great white 🦈 shark from California, South Africa, Mexico that is the first time to follow this apex predator so deep so much in peace. Thank you Rodney Fox Great White Shark Expeditions. Mark Tozer

Here are a few sights from the first day of diving - an enjoyable time diving and snorkeling with the playful and curiou...
10/23/2024

Here are a few sights from the first day of diving - an enjoyable time diving and snorkeling with the playful and curious Australian sea lion. (Neophobia cinerea). Water temperature 17C = 62 F. Visibility as you see superb, clear, and shallow water.

We are moving now to the Great White shark water. The camera is working, the strobes are firing, and the 7mm (I’ve never used one before) works very well. The hood and gloves 3mm. With and at

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Here are a few sights from the first day of diving - an enjoyable time diving and snorkeling with the playful and curiou...
10/23/2024

Here are a few sights from the first day of diving - an enjoyable time diving and snorkeling with the playful and curious Australian sea lion. (Neophobia cinerea). Water temperature 17C = 62 F. Visibility as you see superb, clear, and shallow water.

We are moving now to the Great White shark water. The camera is working, the strobes are firing, and the 7mm (I've never used one before) works very well. The hood and gloves 3mm. With Fox Tozer

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Scientists estimate the Greenland shark lives at least 250 years. They may live over 500 years. Close-up image of a Gree...
10/20/2024

Scientists estimate the Greenland shark lives at least 250 years. They may live over 500 years. Close-up image of a Greenland shark taken at the floe edge of the Admiralty Inlet, Nunavut.

Experts from my Blog...I then repositioned myself, gliding beneath the shark, moving from its left side to its right. We were 45 feet under the ice, and the water shimmered with an otherworldly light, deep blue, glowing, and faintly illuminating what I had been looking to capture—dangling grotesquely from the shark’s cornea—a parasite, rising like a tiny flag in the current. I pressed the shutter again and again, capturing the shark and its companion.
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We had a drink, Dinner, lots of Loughs, stories, and a big hug - that is, with the Australian and world leader in the Gr...
10/17/2024

We had a drink, Dinner, lots of Loughs, stories, and a big hug - that is, with the Australian and world leader in the Great White Shark exploration and education team. With the one and only Rodney Fox, Andrew, his son, and Mark Tozer…more to come, tomorrow my presentation at the Shark Museum in Adelaide and in the next ten days of my adventure in South Australia on land and underwater too🤗👍

Sunset on the peaceful and colorful Bondi beach…tomorrow on the way to Adelaide to meet with Rodney fox and his team Gre...
10/16/2024

Sunset on the peaceful and colorful Bondi beach…tomorrow on the way to Adelaide to meet with Rodney fox and his team Great white shark

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