The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks (36 page)

Last man diving: Ron Elliott, the only commercial diver with nerve enough to pick urchins at the islands, on the deck of his boat
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, just south of Shark Alley.
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A shark attack at the Farallones is not usually a subtle event; a pole camera is used to capture an underwater shot.
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Aerial view, looking west, of the South Farallones. This photograph was taken in 1949.
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“Wicked scary”: an aerial view of the North Farallones, circa 1952.
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Eggers unloading their plunder at North Landing, with Arch Rock and Sugarloaf in the background. In 1905, a storm ripped the derrick from its platform and it was never replaced.
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1896 egger, wearing his specially designed “egg shirt,” designed to hold eighteen-dozen murre eggs as he scaled the Farallon cliffs.
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A northerly view of Southeast Farallon’s marine terrace, houses, and Lighthouse Hill, taken from Mirounga Bay.
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An act of devotion: Scot Anderson on Sharkwatch, which he created in 1987. Every daylight hour during shark season, an observer stands at the lighthouse scanning the islands for signs of shark activity.
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An eighteen-foot shark investigates a six-foot surfboard.
PETER PYLE

The fate of a surfboard at the Farallones.
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Scot Anderson (in orange) observes a feeding. Also in the boat are director Paul Atkins and cinematographer Peter Scoones of the BBC film crew that visited the Farallones in 1993 to film
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Whiteslash, an eighteen-foot female Peter described as “gentle and maternal,” cruises the whaler.
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