White Shark Photo Gallery

Most of the guests on the Guadlupe Island Great White Shark Expeditions bring a camera (or two) along on their trip, and some of them have sent us photos that they are proud of. This is a gallery of some of their shots, and is a good look at what you can expect to see on a Guadalupe Island Great White Shark Expedition. Click on the photographer's name to see their images.

Antonia Barnhart - Toni is a photographer based in Hilo, Hawaii who nabbed these shots on a Sept. 2002 Guadalupe Great White trip.

Steve Benavides - A native Californian with a lifetime of coastal piloting experience in the Channel Islands, Steve has been scuba diving for 35 years and is a certified Research Diver. He is a Director and past President of the Catalina Conservancy Divers. Steve holds a political appointments to several of the Department of Fish and Game Advisory Committees where he represents Southern California divers. He is a frequent contributor to California Dive News and had articles and photos published in Discover Diving, Pacific Diver, Skin Diver, Paul Human's Coastal Fish Identification Book and many other publications. Steve has won dozens of awards in photographic competitions. A CPA by trade, he tolerates a regular job only so he can spend time in the sea with his family and believes diving is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. Steve resides in Irvine, California with his wife and four children.

Jim Brucia - a Guadalupe trip in Sept. 2002 led to Jim grabbing these shots of some great Great Whites.

Guillaume Chanfreau - "Gui" made a journey down to Guadalupe Island to mingle with the Great Whites in the fall of 2001. These are some shots from that trip.

Roberto Chavez - Roberto is an adventurous technical diver/photographer from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. He got these shots on a Nov. 2002 Guadalupe Great White trip.

Claire Davies: This charming Brit was a guest on one of our October 2002 Great White Shark adventures, where she amassed this collection of interesting shots.

Dave Haas - Dave is a pro photographer from Ohio, who got these photos during a Nov. 2002 Guadalupe Island trip.

Ken Howard - from San Anselmo, CA is a pro shooter. His Photo company, Sea Images, provides a lot of stock images for clients looking for unique underwater shots. Ken had such a good time on the Nov 2001 trip that he immediately booked another Great White Shark expedition for 2002.

Toshimi Sakurai - Toshimi Sakurai flew all the way from Japan to join us on the Oct 14-18, 2003 Guadalupe Is. Great White Shark Expedition. Conditions were spectacular with flat calm water and 100 ft plus visibility. Toshi-San got some unique images and even caught some tuna. We hope to see his magazine article about this trip soon.

Andrew Sallmon - Andrew Sallmon is a freelance underwater and nature photographer specializing in images of marine life and the marine environment. His love of the sea has taken him all over the world looking for ways to capture dynamic portraits of its creatures large and small. He hopes that through the viewing of these images people will someday learn to appreciate and understand the awesome beauty and fragile nature of the oceans and to ultimately change some of the detrimental practices of humankind toward the sea.

A native of California, he spends much of his time diving and photographing the rich temperate water of his home state but also travels abroad several months each year to create new images for his stock file. A Scuba Instructor since 1980, he picked up his first underwater camera that same year and slowly converted from underwater hunting to the challenges of underwater photography. It was the slower pace of observing and trying to approach marine life closely that helped him to see and understand the intricacies and miracles of the ocean ecosystems. As he learn to appreciate the living sea, his photographic skill also grew and now his is one of a fortunate few that earn a living as an underwater photographer. His work has been featured over the last few years in several books, magazines, calendars and posters. In addition, he is also one of the few underwater photographers on display at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Contact Andy directly for image license requests, underwater photo classes, photo expeditions, seminars and presentations. His web site is: www.seait.com

William Stableford - Bill was a guest on a Guadalupe Island Great White trip in October 2002. A hard-core fisherman when not in the cage, Bill was often spotted in the wee hours, holding a cup of coffee, a fishing pole, and wearing some stylish jammies!

Sarah Sundby - Sarah, a native of South Africa & world-traveling photographer, was aboard a November 2002 Guadalupe trip, where she got the White Shark shots, and she works as crew on some of the One-Day Blue/Mako Shark trips.

Gary Tanizaki - Gary is one of the captains of the M/V Horizon, and got these shots during the Fall 2002 season at Guadalupe.