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Photo of the DayDecember 13, 2006
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Near Arctic Bay, Baffin Island, Canada, 1996
Photograph by Nick Caloyianis
A diver films a Greenland shark beneath the Arctic ice.

"'It rose up and hovered near me in an almost vertical position...When I saw its mouth starting to open, I got concerned.' But there is no record of Greenland sharks ever attacking humans, and a nudge with a strobe light sent this one into retreat."

(Text from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Greenland Sharks," September 1998, National Geographic magazine)
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