ARMED with her camera, bikini and flippers, this brave diver goes swimming with SHARKS. The diver fearlessly swims with grey reef sharks, blacktip reef sharks and whitetip reef sharks off the coast of Yap in the western Pacific Ocean. American ocean photojournalist Tim Rock captured the breath-taking photographs on a diving trip with professional dive tour instructor and model Yoko Higashide. The 64-year-old photographer, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, said: “Vertigo Reef, along the north-western shores of the island of Yap in Micronesia, is a perfect venue to watch reef sharks.
POPE MOBBED BY THOUSANDS OF WORSHIPPERS IN RIO - Thousands of worshippers gather to celebrate the Papal visit on Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro ,Brazil .
A floating market in Indonesia is bursting with vibrant colours as wooden rowing boats loaded with fruit and vegetables crowd the river .
WIDE EYED with a huge smile across her face, this little elephant is a picture of happiness .
A lazy otter finds the ideal spot to soak up the sun and sleep off his lunch .
WONDERS of the world have been transformed into their mini-versions in a seven-year round the world adventure .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
The gunslingers are long gone and tumbleweeds have taken over at this abandoned American Wild West Theme Park in Cornwall .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .
STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .
