Face the giant fish mouth

With a 9-meter wide mouth, the rough whale is about to swallow the woman diving nearby to have a good meal.

Luckily for the female diver Sam Bester, the giant staggering animal approaching her is just a harmless fish and their favorite is small fish. This 35-year-old woman swims parallel to the giant fish without knowing she was so close to her mouth until she looked back at the photo.

" It's amazing to see the picture and see how small I am next to him. Maybe I have slipped into his mouth ," Sam added. She has a long history of swimming with a whale for 12 years and collecting data on the breeding and habitat for this fish. The photo above was taken at a depth of 9 meters near Durban, South Africa.

Rough whales are the largest aquatic species on earth. They can be up to 12 meters long, weigh 15 tons and live for 70 years.

Sam Bester was swimming close to the giant whale's mouth.(Photo: BNPS)