Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks. These amazing photographs were captured by American ocean photojournalist Tim Rock, on a trip north of Papua New Guinea to Vertigo Reef in Yap, Micronesia. ‘I had the pleasure and privilege to team up with diver Ai Futaki for two weeks of photography during an event called Manta Fest in Yap, Micronesia,’ says Tim, of Minneapolis, Minnesota. ‘She is a world champion free diver who wanted to try free diving with sharks and asked if I would document her swimming in Yap's waters.
Made up of 40,000 pieces, putting in over 200 hours of work and blunting endless blades, this is the final result for the world’s largest jigsaw, finally finished on Wednesday .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .
THIS is the shocking moment a clumsy radio newsreader plunged into a freezing canal while texting her boyfriend instead of looking where she was going .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
Some will get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s deadliest animals to get the perfect shot, posing the question, what lengths will a photographer go to for that all important picture? But in this case, the question should be what depths .
SAT ON top of a Brazilian turtle’s head, this little ladybird looks content as he studies his environment from a new height .
AN ITALIAN mechanic has created the world’s most ferocious mini-car .
A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .
SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .
A Zumba-mad grandma has lost almost 14st after becoming addicted to the popular dance craze .
USUALLY full to bursting, these London Underground stations stand silent and completely commuter free .