First image of a thresher shark birth

Attila Kaszo · Issue 84, May/Jun 2015 · pp. 42–44

Products mentioned: Nikon D800, Nauticam housing

First of all, congratulations on your amazing photograph. It is quite literally extraordinary. Where and when did you take it and was this a trip to specifically photograph thresher sharks? I went specifically to Malapascua in 2013 to film Thresher sharks. What I didn’t know was just how hard it was to get a good shot. Firstly, I had to get up by 4:00am each morning to get my stuff ready, then walk in the dark along a sandy track for about 500m lugging nearly 12K of camera gear just to get to the boat. Still dark, the boat leaves and we arrive at Monad Shoal about 5:30: dive into 25m of water and wait for sharks by 5:50am. They only seemed to be around for about an hour in numbers then went back to deeper water. This was the daily routine for most of my stay, although I did manage to get out to a few regional dive sites in between. At what point did you notice that it may have been a pup…