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I am so jealous, I am so jealous, I am so jealous.... :/ Awesome pictures, as usual, Eric, and I'll add that I know it's not your camera equipmment?? LOL.

-- posted by Clare @ Sunday, September 7 2003, 01:43 pm

Awesome shots as always echeng :) I couldn't believe the sea lions would cruise around next to those massive eating machines. Your polecam looks very cool--excellent about-to-swallow-the-camera shots. I really need to get over my fear of cold water (and get dry suit certified). Looks like an awesome trip. Mad cow disease now setting in...AAAARRRRGGGGGG!!!! ;)

-- posted by Dave Patchen @ Monday, September 8 2003, 03:04 am

I'm betting your wetsuit got nice and warm when the first shark meandered by. As always, eally great photos!

-- posted by Grant Ingersoll @ Monday, September 8 2003, 06:11 pm

Dude. I'm not in a really good position to comment on the Big Design of the Universe, BUT those seem to be some dumb f'ing sea lions. :)

-- posted by Adam @ Tuesday, September 9 2003, 11:10 am

Sharks rock!! Just saw my first one a couple of months ago. It wasn't that big tho!! ps friend of Kenny's

-- posted by Amy @ Wednesday, September 10 2003, 04:04 pm

Eric- you know what. i can probably fit in a suitcase. TAKE ME WITH YOU!! you still have to teach me how to take good pictures. miss ya. hope to have you back at PIT next summer

-- posted by Tarra @ Friday, September 12 2003, 07:34 am

I could never hate you Eric! Once again, you have truly captured the beauty and grace of my favorite animals in the sea. I was wondering, you know how golfers have caddies, well you have enough equipment...can I be your camera carrier? Please..take me with you!!!!! Thanks for the update! Melissa :o)

-- posted by Cho @ Friday, September 12 2003, 07:40 pm

Hey Eric, come to take pictures in England soon!! my house-mates are more dangerous than white sharks... trust me!!! Ciao! Marta

-- posted by marta @ Monday, September 15 2003, 08:47 am

Eric: Just returned from the Marquesas Keys and a successful expedition. We managed to tag 39 lemon sharks, got 5 recaps and 0 mortality. We used the R/V Tiburon for the first time and it was a good experience similar to your vessel for the GW trip.

The GW images are, as you say--eye candy. I was struck by the excellent shape these (or this) white was in. It looked like a fairly young individual--maybe lsee that 13 feet?? Other than the upper lip, the animal looked very clean indeed--as if it were not yet feeding on pinnepeds. Again Kudos for your wonderful work.

I noticed that Kaz Maris was with you. He came to two of our Bimini shark courses. Hope to see you again at Bimini or in Miami!

Love from doc n marie

-- posted by Samuel H. Gruber @ Wednesday, September 17 2003, 04:08 pm

Eric: Just returned from the Marquesas Keys and a successful expedition. We managed to tag 39 lemon sharks, got 5 recaps and 0 mortality. We used the R/V Tiburon for the first time and it was a good experience similar to your vessel for the GW trip.

The GW images are, as you say--eye candy. I was struck by the excellent shape these (or this) white was in. It looked like a fairly young individual--maybe lsee that 13 feet?? Other than the upper lip, the animal looked very clean indeed--as if it were not yet feeding on pinnepeds. Again Kudos for your wonderful work.

I noticed that Kaz Maris was with you. He came to two of our Bimini shark courses. Hope to see you again at Bimini or in Miami!

Love from doc n marie

-- posted by Samuel H. Gruber @ Wednesday, September 17 2003, 04:09 pm

Eric you seem to be the luckiest bastard I have ever known. The pictures are amazing i'm incredibley jealous. keep up the good work mate and hopefully I'll get to seeya when you pop over to England. ta ta 4 now, Laura

-- posted by Laura @ Thursday, September 18 2003, 09:52 am

beautiful! fabulous! outstanding!!! i am friend of ken weemhoff.am sooooo anxious to dive galapagos! appreciate your skills and creativity! keep it up!

-- posted by ashley @ Monday, September 29 2003, 08:29 am

Eric,

Ofourse we like the shark photographs---as well as the rest of your work also. I am heading to Isla de Guadalupe in October on the Horizon's sister vessel---the Ocean Odysssey. If you would like a trip report when I return, send me an e-mail.

C.C.

-- posted by C.C. @ Tuesday, October 7 2003, 05:38 pm

CC - I would love a trip report when you return. I just had to cancel a Nov 4-8 trip back to Guadalupe. too bad! :(

-- posted by Eric Cheng @ Tuesday, October 7 2003, 05:48 pm

Thanks for your dive tour pictures form Galapagos! Who suggested you visit there to dive in August period. I never know whale sharks will be appeared in August. After look at your photos I may change my November Galapagos dive schedules to next summer!

-- posted by Matthew Lee (HongKong) @ Thursday, October 9 2003, 09:46 pm

You know what they say about the first step to taking good underwater photos: Spend, spend, spend! I dive with a friend who just recently acquired an EOS-10D and Subal housing + dual YS-90 DX strobes. He says that one of the most important things to remember about diving is having redundant credit cards.

Nice pics, btw (subject matter, composition, lighting).

-- posted by mike @ Thursday, October 16 2003, 11:57 am

Hi Eric, I happen to stumble onto your sites while searching for strobes on the interenet for my camera. I'm so envy of your photos dude, it make me wanna just jump into the water and snap like crazy. As i'm a newbie diver, and a very newbie UW photographer, you have given me some insperation not to give up my new found hobbie, (an expensive one at that). But hey, as long as you enjoy it, what's stopping you right??

-- posted by David @ Monday, October 27 2003, 10:35 pm

cool pictures get new pictures !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! love sharks

-- posted by ffion evans @ Tuesday, January 27 2004, 04:15 am

Hey echeng awesome pics man. I've been checkin out your sites for a while now. I've got a shark dive coming this sunday, going to be 8-15 galapagos sharks swimming around me with no cage. Just wondered if you had any tips for getting good pictures without losing an appendage. I heard flash makes them more agressive... any truth? Anyways keep up the great work. YES I love sharks!

-- posted by Jeff Cowie @ Thursday, February 19 2004, 12:18 am

I really enjoyed your sea rovers presentation

i thought it was very informative and kept my interest.

i have been taking uw photos for about 15 years using a nikonos v .

i might try digital after listening to your program and seeing your pictures

thanks

-- posted by Al @ Sunday, March 7 2004, 09:44 pm

a shark ate my boat

-- posted by Viviane Coulster @ Saturday, March 13 2004, 06:09 pm

I bet the dentist dont like this guy

-- posted by annonumus @ Monday, March 29 2004, 01:30 am

woah.. those pitures are f'in awesome dude! and that one chick.. major babe! well keep up the good work E-R-I-C the master P-I-M-P.

-- posted by anonimus @ Saturday, April 17 2004, 08:07 am

Could you please give me more information about the great white

-- posted by Laura Andrea Felton @ Thursday, April 29 2004, 08:14 am

please,send me the photograph of the most wicked Shark in the Sea.l need it to arrange for my assignment at school this evening. Thanks In Christ Alex

-- posted by alex Kwame munkoh @ Tuesday, May 11 2004, 06:16 am

Please,send me the photograph of the Most Wicked Shark in the Sea,l has been giving a home work to write something about it and summit it this very evening.Thanks very much

In Christ Alex

-- posted by alex kwame munkoh @ Tuesday, May 11 2004, 06:22 am

omg i love great white sharks. They are the most scandelous creatures. I love how they have that look on their face as if they observe life around them but simply dont care. They are magnificant and an important part in our ecosystem and they have so much power as much as scaring an living thing on this planet. My love for great white sharks ( and other sharks) is so extreme and i would love to study sharks and their living habbits and habitat.

-- posted by Leslie @ Wednesday, August 18 2004, 04:35 pm

Some truly amazing pics Eric. Recently returned from Fiji where I joined Manasa, James, Rusi and co. for their infamous feeding frenzy. What a day, such beautiful creatures, and i'd only seen one shark, leopard, in my short diving affair previous to this treat! (got qualified in Jan 04.) Unfortunately I do not own u/w housing for my camera, but google'n a few key words led me to your little (or not so little) treasure trove of images - i hope you dont mind too much but I had to share the wealth with family and friends. Just trying to work out where I can get 2.5k usd for the San Diego trip, with a stopover in Singapore (!?!) to buy some goodies from Sim Lim square!! Could be a little while... Keep up the good work and i'll be returning for future updates! JB - Hampshire, England.

-- posted by Jon Batchelor @ Monday, August 30 2004, 10:55 am

Realy cool pictures,im glad you get all warm and fuzzy,its nice to know you enjoy your work.I have always wanted to swim with sharks but i live in west virginia and as you know we have no oceans.You have some really awsome pictures,not many sites have good ones,soooo im realy glad you do.Any ways wright me back if you want im on the computer every day.

-- posted by jocelyn @ Monday, September 27 2004, 02:08 pm

your website is sooooooooooo cool I hate sharks but I find them so interesting to find infomation about them. Do you like sharks? Do you find them scary atall? I find them sooooooooo scary!

-- posted by Shanice Eason @ Thursday, January 20 2005, 08:41 am

Thanks when I see your photos then it is no idea to continue myself. However I will go to Sudan and Red Sea this year again. I have been there a couple of times since 1972. That and Canada are the best waters I have been diving.

-- posted by Lars-Ã…ke Weimar @ Saturday, January 29 2005, 09:51 am

i love sharks. i am five years old and i look on the computer every night to learn about sharks. my favorite shark is a bull shark and a lemon shark. sharks are very cool and dangerous. bye bye love ethan

-- posted by ethan wright @ Saturday, March 5 2005, 06:09 pm

i think the person who went scuba diving with a great white must of been high on dope when he was doing it becauase no-one in the wright mind would scuba dive with 50 foot long great white

-- posted by jodie @ Saturday, March 12 2005, 12:51 pm

i love the ocean

-- posted by olivia heinen @ Friday, April 8 2005, 01:56 pm

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-- posted by Q Tshark lover @ Tuesday, April 26 2005, 07:07 pm

Dear Eric Cheng, I am a biologist here in Sardegna, Italy, where I study molecular biology in Cagliari University. I have funded a No-profit association for the research and conservation on elasmobranchs in mediterranean waters, particularly in my island's coasts, its name is AQUAlab. I'm also going to create a web site for it. I'm writing this e-mail to ask you the authorization to utilize a picture of the great white shark, one chosen by yourself among all your wonderful images. Its use is intended to be only for No-porfit and no-commercial purposes, but only educational one. It could be in my web site with your name besides it and your copyright and property mentioned. I would have a preference: the page I'm going to create is for a monitoring project about the presence of the white shark on sardinian waters, so I would prefer a picture without cages or no-mediterranean small fishes around the shark. If you also would have a dorsal fin's image it would be great. I would also, of course, show the link to your site in my own. I'll wait an answer from you with pleasure. If you could help me to my project I would be very happy, if not, doesn't matter, I say you Thanks a lot anyway, just for the attention reserved reading it. I wish you all the best things! Best Regards, Luca Zinzula.

-- posted by Luca Zinzula @ Saturday, May 14 2005, 06:28 am

cool pics!and alot of info.i looove sharks so much

-- posted by Nicole @ Monday, June 6 2005, 11:14 am

i love sharks alot cause they are so amazing exspecially (Great white sharks)cause they are so cool!! i think i like them cause they are so scary but nows a day i feel like actually sharks are really beautiful eventhough they are scary!!haha!! i love sharks alot!! GREAT WHITE SHARKS ROCKS!!

-- posted by Esther.j @ Sunday, September 11 2005, 06:28 am

sharks are cool

-- posted by john @ Monday, September 26 2005, 05:25 pm

what do great sharks eat

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-- posted by *chloe* @ Sunday, November 27 2005, 11:09 pm

hey i think this is really cool did you get under water and talk photos of this if you did you must be very brave from lindsey hodnett

-- posted by lindsey hodnett @ Tuesday, January 10 2006, 02:00 pm

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-- posted by t @ Monday, January 23 2006, 04:13 pm

I love sharks! I might show my brother a scary picture of one.

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Eric, I'm in love with the white shark, they are the most beautiful graceful creatures I've ever seen. I have seen the videos from .exico, where there is no chumm(sp?) in the water, They are just like cats, feeling everything with their mouth and nose, because they have no hands! I mean, what else are they supposed to feel with?:) The only thing i know for sure is that if I am that captivated by a picture or a video of these animals, there is no telling what my reaction would be to a face to face meeting. I can't wait to find out. All my friends think I'm nuts...oh well!

-- posted by melissa winkler @ Monday, July 31 2006, 07:20 pm

Contrary to popular belief....there are great white sharks found off the coast of the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador

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