Shark sightings at the Shipwreck Graveyard
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In the middle of the Mozambiquean Channel, a two-day sail from civilisation, lies Bassas Da India a submerged volcanic atoll and shipwreck graveyard. Utilising the quiet technology of a rebreather allows cameraman Bart Lukasik to film some up-close encounters with a curious potato bass, a green turtle, shy garden eels and even a rare sighting of the Galapagos shark.
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