{"id":390919,"date":"2025-11-19T23:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/390919\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T23:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:04:16","slug":"photo-of-great-white-shark-taken-off-maine-coast-named-as-one-of-national-geographics-best-pictures-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/390919\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of great white shark taken off Maine coast named as one of National Geographic’s best pictures of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

A picture of a great white shark that was taken off the coast of Maine has been featured in the National Geographic\u2019s \u201cBest of the World\u201d photo gallery.<\/p>\n

Brian Skerry was roughly 15 miles off the coast of Harpswell when he briefly encountered the 10-foot juvenile great white. The photo is believed to be the first underwater image <\/a>of a great white shark off the coast of Maine, according to the magazine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>National Geographic 2025 Pictures of the Year edition. Courtesy of National Geographic<\/p>\n

More great white sharks are living in coastal waters, according to recent research. Steve Crawford, a fish ecologist at the University of Guelph in Ontario, believes that there is a healthy population of the animals breeding in Passamaquoddy Bay.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s rare to spot them, and even rarer to get a picture of the sharks in Maine waters. It took Skerry more than 10,000 hours of diving over his career to capture the ethereal image.\u00a0<\/p>\n

National Geographic\u2019s annual best photos of the year gallery features pictures that<\/a> \u201ccapture nature\u2019s most remarkable moments, cutting-edge exploration, and the diverse experiences of people around the world.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Skerry was not immediately available to comment.\u00a0
For more of Nat Geo\u2019s Best of the World 2025 list, visit natgeo.com\/photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A picture of a great white shark that was taken off the coast of Maine has been featured…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":390920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3809,159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-390919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-great-white-sharks","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}