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Title: Shark Embrace. Bahamas
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A diver (Daniel De Sa Freire) holds a Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezi) in tonic immobility, by tickling it under the nose, on the Ray Of Hope wreck. This behaviour is used by trained shark divers to remove hooks etc from the sharks. Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas. Bahamas Sea, West Atlantic Ocean. The Bahamas National Shark Sanctuary.
- Bahamas
- Caribbean reef shark: Carcharhinus perezi
- Cartilaginous Fishes: Chondrichthyes
- Elasmobranchs: Elasmobranchii
- Fishes
- Ground Sharks: Carcharhiniformes
- man
- Marine Life
- Nassau
- New Providence
- Ray Of Hope Wreck
- Requiem Sharks: Carcharhindidae
- Sharks
- Stuart Cove
- tropical
- Tropical West Atlantic Ocean
- wide angle