SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch. The tiger sharks, unfazed by the scuba clad guests, appear to enjoy themselves as they dine on a meal of chum. Belgian underwater photographer Ellen Cuylaerts, 44, captured the photographs in a shallow sand bank off the coast of Tiger Beach in the Bahamas. Ellen, now living in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, says: “In these photographs you see a tiger shark coming to feed at the bait crate for the first time
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