Sharp focus: Hungry shark tries to chomp camera

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Sam Cahir / Barcroft Media via LandovMy, what sharp teeth you have! This shortfin mako shark makes her move on photographer Sam Cahir's camera off the Neptune Islands in South Australia.By Laura T. Coffey, TODAY contributing editorIt can take a lot to faze some people — but it seems that almost nothing rattles Australian photographer Sam Cahir.

As evidence, consider the photographs Cahir took while being circled for about two hours by a hungry shortfin mako shark off the Neptune Islands in South Australia. Cahir was participating in a great white shark tagging trip with the Fox Shark Research Foundation when the female mako shark decided to get up close and personal.

Here is Cahir’s account of what happened in his own words, as told to London-based Barcroft Media:

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[Folami David]

This is so serious.
No human being should try to near such shark o