Australia - Gamba Photogallery -- National Geographic

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"We spent three days in Exmouth whale-sharking, as they call it. For a long time it's been on my short list of things to do before I die.

"This particular whale shark, for whatever reason, would chase us. Not like a great white but more like a puppy following you around. I was swimming backward, shooting, and it just kept coming and coming. When it was three feet [0.9 meter] away, I said, "OK, he's not going to turn." I got run over. I rolled down its belly, holding my camera out so it wouldn't hurt the shark. Neither of us were hurt."

Photograph by Mark Gamba

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