These amazing photos and video show daredevil model swimming with 16ft killer sharks, in a bikini and with no diving equipment!
At first you may be thinking “Is this woman crazy?”
But she has a purpose for doing this..
Her name is Hannah Fraser, and she is a marine conservationist, and also the world’s most celebrated “mermaid” and underwater model.
Hannah travels the world performing for charity projects to bring awareness to the ocean and its precious animal life.
As part of her latest project, Hannah risked her life as she danced with tiger sharks off the coast of the Bahamas in an effort to show the animals’ true nature and bring awareness to shark culling currently going on in Australia.
The Western Australian shark cull is the common term for a state government policy of capturing and killing large sharks in the vicinity of swimming beaches by use of baited drum lines.
Hannah was armed with absolutely nothing- not even diving equipment, and she dove 50ft into the Atlantic Ocean to swim with a shoal of the most dangerous sharks in the world- Tiger sharks.
Inches away from 15-foot Tiger sharks, Hannah gracefully brushes their fins and moves with such ease and grace that you would never think that she was surrounded by the top predators of the ocean.
Emmy award-winning cinematographer Shawn Heinrichs shot Hannah dancing at the bottom of the seabed, and she knew she had to keep in constant motion in order to stop the sharks from eating her alive.
The whole process took 5 days to shoot, and is part of an upcoming documentary series called Tears of a Mermaid, and the short video so far was released and edited while the team were all still aboard the boat.
Check out this unbelievably beautiful video below. We promise you’ve never seen anything like this before!
[Featured Image Credit: Sean Heinrichs- Geoff Robinson Photography]