Last week, I went to Fakarava, a remote atoll in the Tuamotus in French Polynesia, as part of the Blancpain Diving Experience 2014. The south pass of Fakarava is the best place on the planet for seeing schools of gray reef sharks—there are upwards of 700 schooling sharks in the pass at any given time. I captured footage of the sharks in the pass using a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera in a Nauticam housing (video below), but the low-altitude aerial shots I took with my DJI Phantom 2 quadcopter and Ricoh GR camera are much more rare. What an incredible place!
Schooling sharks in the South Pass of Fakarava (Tumakohua), French Polynesia from Eric Cheng on Vimeo.