Yesterday I went out with the shark team and did only one dive, oh my god what a dive. It was only 24 minutes long but it will leave memories for a lifetime. An eight-foot male Hawaiian Monk Seal surprised us. He showed signs of curiosity and aggression; I believe it was a territorial display. He ran the shark guys out of the water and I just kept shooting. I was concerned that it might bite me so I kept backing up with the camera rolling. His nose was touching my lens with its nose and occasionally looking at my moving fins. It was intense and I had to use my judgment as to how to behave cause a wrong move can be painful. Such a beautiful creaturean what a privige to see one, they are on the verge of extinction, with only 1200 left.

As I finished my slow accent to the surface a few Galapagos sharks zoomed up from the deep toward me. They startled me a little and made me feel unease while I was floating, waiting to be picked up by the dive boat.

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