Ovo je hobotnica koja je pokušavala da objasni na šta mi liči frizura pod vodom i da sam joj skroz smešna. Ako dođem opet, rado će se igrati sa mnom This is an octopus who tried to explain what my hairstyle looks like under water and that she finds me totally ridiculous. If I return she will happily play with me again
Riba lav je izuzetno mudra. Kada na noćnom zaronu uključite lampe, ona se prišunja i zahvaljujući snopu lampe, lovi ribu The Lionfish is extremely wise. When you turn on a lamp during night diving, it sneaks up and uses the light to fish
Graciozna i lepa kornjača koja leti po morskom nebu maldivskih ostrva A graceful and beautiful turtle that flies through the sky of the sea in the Maldives
Egipatske gorgonije uvek oduzimaju dah Egyptian gorgonian coral is always breathtaking
E very morning Ivana puts on flippers instead of heels. Then she heads to her underwater office, on the bot- tom of the sea, rivers, lakes... Where there are no traffic jams, mobile phones or stress, just clear blue that hides the won- drous life that hardly anyone knows. Ivana (42) first peered into the under- water world at the age of just eight. And she still hasn’t emerged. Now, after 35 years of diving experience and over a hundred days spent at the bottom of the sea, she consid- ers sharks as being her best friends. She has travelled half of the blue planet in order to enjoy their company. She has petted them, fed them, put them to sleep and even had a very close encounter with one of them. That one shark liked her so much that this dan- gerous animal decided to take a bite out of her. However, it quickly realised, luckily, that Ivana is not its food, but it still left teeth marks on her foot as a reminder. Ivana has familiarised herself with the blue depths in the Philippines, Spain, South Africa, Egypt, Israel,Turkey, Austria, Montene- gro, Slovenia, Italy, Greece and Bosnia, while her favourites have remained the Bela Crk- va lakes and the River Drina. On the island of Vis she single-handedly fed a snake-like eel almost two metres long, with which she
danced in a white dress. In the Maldives she spent 22 minutes all alone clinging to an enormous whale shark. In Cuba’s underwater mangrove forest she hung out with a croc- odile called El Niño. Investigating the deep is Ivana’s whole world, and she lives out this love of hers with her husband Janez. With him she runs one of Serbia’s biggest diving centres, Svet ronjen- ja (World of diving). She was an underwater model until her husband gave her her first underwater camera, which quickly led to her accumulating medals in underwater pho- tography competitions. Her favourite among them is from the European Championships in Spain. At that time she won silver, with great help from a huge jellyfish. She has passed on her passion for the deep to her son Mateja (9), about whom a documentary film has al- ready been made – because this kid, at the age of just six, through diving and collect- ing shells, managed to earn enough mon- ey to buy his first flippers. And despite having already hung out with moray eels, octopuses and conger eels, being eye-to-eye with crocodiles, dolphins, turtles, great whites and other sharks, jelly- fish, aquatic snakes, barracudas, and diving under ice and in caves, Ivana is still dreaming. She dreams of meeting seals and orcas.
U ovom trenutku je pored mene u vodi u Karipskom moru još 12 sjajnih svetskih podvodnih fotografa i svi slikaju sunce i ajkule. Ja sam se okrenula, ugledala sjajan kadar i uspela da snimim fenomenalnu fotografiju pola-pola At this moment in the waters of the Caribbean Sea there were 12 other great world underwater photographers, all shooting images of the sun and sharks. I turned around, noticed a great frame and managed to take a phenomenal shot, half-half
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