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Photo: The Great Sardine Run Off the South African Coast...SOUTH AFRICA: Gannets follow the Sardines. It is billed as the greatest natural show on earth and from these stunning images it is easy to why. Encompassing diving gannets, sharks, dolphins and brydes whales this is the increasingly rare and unpredictable sardine run. Underwater photographer Jason Heller travelled to the wild coast of South Africa this July to capture one of the unique predatory shows. Amazingly for Jason, who has been involved in underwater photography since 2001, this was his first experience of the sardine run. Followed by thousands of hungry dolphins, sharks, sea birds and seals, the sardines protect themselves from this onslaught by forming into giant balls called 'bait balls' which can measure as large as 65 feet, or 20 metres, in diameter. Using micro light planes to try and spot and relay the co-ordinates of the masses of fish and dive bombing gannets. PHOTOGRAPH BY JASON HELLER / BARCROFT MEDIA LTD UK Office, London. T +44 845 370 2233 W www.barcroftmedia.com Australasian & Pacific Rim Office, Melbourne. E info@barcroftpacific.com T +613 9510 3188 or +613 9510 0688 W www.barcroftpacific.com Indian Office, Delhi. T +91 997 1133 889 W www.barcroftindia.com *** Local Caption *** ***For legal reasons sales must not be made to the following diving magazines in the following territories***: - USA - ALL DIVING MAGAZINES - GERMANY - "Unterwasser" - UK - "DIVE" - SINGAPORE/AUSTRALIA - Scuba Dive - AUSTRALIA/ASIA - "Asian Diver - RUSSIA -"Octopus" - CANADA - "Diver"
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