{"id":17170,"date":"2012-01-23T10:10:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T15:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=17170"},"modified":"2012-01-23T10:48:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T15:48:39","slug":"photographer-has-close-call-with-bahamas-tiger-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/01\/photographer-has-close-call-with-bahamas-tiger-shark","title":{"rendered":"Diver Has Close Call With Bahamas Tiger Shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17189\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17189\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17189\" title=\"shark-attack\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/shark-attack.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/shark-attack.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/shark-attack-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russell Easton with tiger shark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the terrifying moment a daring Tyneside diver looked straight into the jaws of death.<\/p>\n<p>Underwater photographer Russell Easton got a close-up he didn\u2019t bargain for when he came face-to-face with one of the world\u2019s most dangerous animals.<\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old was forced to fend-off a tiger shark with just his camera when he came perilously close to the wrong kind of snap.<\/p>\n<p>The conservationist was photographing the 12ft mammal while in the Bahama Islands with a friend.<\/p>\n<p>Russell, a professional underwater photographer from West Allotment in North Tyneside, said: \u201cI was looking through the view finder of the camera when I suddenly saw this huge mouth and teeth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US conservationist was photographing a 12ft tiger shark in the Bahamas waters but apparently he got too close and had to fend the creature off in a terrifying close call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[63,52],"class_list":["post-17170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-animals","tag-sharks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}