I found it to be really therapeutic and beautiful. So I started progressing through dive certification and training. And I was surfing, but I really wanted to see what was underwater. I eventually moved out here kind of full-time a little over a decade ago. So I grew up snorkeling here in Hawaii, and kind of bouncing back and forth between the two places. Because my mom was a single mother, come vacation time she’d send me to stay with family. Even though I was by the water, I grew up in New York City.

Kimberly Jeffries: For the most part I grew up pretty land-locked. Hannah Loesch: Where did you develop your interest in underwater photography? Was this something you grew up wanting to do? We spoke with Kimberly by phone ahead of the special and discussed her career's origin story, her experience diving with the world's biggest recorded great white, and why people are so fascinated with sharks.Ī blue shark photographed in Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur. Her January 2019 encounter with Deep Blue, the famous great white who is widely agreed upon to be the largest ever recorded on film, will be detailed in the encore airing of World's Biggest Great White? on August 2nd, during Nat Geo Wild's SharkFest. Based on Oahu, Hawaii, Jeffries is known for her nature and wildlife photography, most notably her haunting shots of marine life ranging from sea horses to sharks. But what is it about sharks that keeps us tuning in year after year? It's not the summer Olympics or the America's Got Talent finals: it's Shark Week (or for Nat Geo Wild fans, SharkFest), and for some, it's the only time all year National Geographic or Discovery is the go-to channel. © Mark Mohler 2019įor two weeks during the summer, people all over the country spend their dog days not at the pool or beach, but glued to their TVs.

Kimberly Jeffries photographs Deep Blue, one of the largest recorded great white sharks to date. It’s not like Jaws where the shark is breaching out of the ocean and belly flopping, and, like, ripping animals. 'It wasn’t at all how you would imagine a great white shark.

Deep blue shark images