Lured heart-stoppingly close by the scent of bait, gray reef sharks—as well as tiger, mako, blacktip and others—are themselves the lure that draw divers to the saphire lagoon of Rangiroa in the Tuamotus.

(Text from "French Polynesia," National Geographic Magazine, June 1997.)


Adventure: September 2002  |  Photograph by David Doubilet
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