Distant

While it's the close-ups that I usually wait for, there's something about catching a white shark at a distance that gives a sense of how vast the underwater world is.

The shark in this photo is Luca Arnone (#136 in MCSI's Guadalupe White Shark Photo ID database). When he was first identified, he had a rope wrapped around his gill region. Thankfully, some divers were able to cut the rope free, and we continued to see Luca year after year following him being freed from that entanglement.

With Guadalupe now closed to diving and tourism, I can only hope that Luca is still out there and thriving.