Close encounters of the giant kind: diving with a whale shark
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Our underwater cameraman gets the fright of his life when a huge moving object shadows his view of the sun. Thinking his days are numbered, he quickly realises that the massive creature swimming above him is one of the ocean’s gentlest giants and the world's biggest fish: the whale shark.
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