Published 15:26 IST, December 13th 2019

'Up close & personal': Man captures photo with 20-foot long anaconda

An astonishing video shows a photographer gets up 'close & personal' with a 20-foot long green anaconda underwater and manages to snap a selfie as well.

Reported by: Bhavya Sukheja
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An astonishing video shows a photographer getting up close and personal with a 20-foot long green anaconda underwater and mans to snap a selfie as well. photographer Jorge Cervera Hauser, 35, is founder of venture travel company Pelagic Fleet in Mexico and is also kwn for swimming with great sharks regularly. He has also been featured by many of world's leing nature magazines. video was shot in Formoso River, Brazil, where he spent approximately 40 minutes with biggest reptile and even mand to get some great shots with snake. 

While talking to an international media outlet, Hauser said that green anaconda that he photographed is largest anaconda species in world and was around six metres long. He said that he wasn't scared since he is used to 'hanging around' with large predators underwater. He furr ded that snake was very shy and was trying to avoid him most of time. However, he also said that most he enjoyed about photographing wildlife up close are natural curiosity animals develop and interaction that comes. In video, one can even see snake flicking its tongue at fearless photographer who reportedly has been diving with sharks and or large predators for over ten years w. 

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In a similar incident, Euah Rannachan, a London born photographer is kwn for getting close-up shots of sharks and for coming face-to-face with underwater predators countless times. 34-year-old reportedly doesn't get spooked when he is just feet away from sharks. Inste, he mans to keep his cool and capture razor-sharp teeth with close-ups of ir gaping mouths. Rannachan who has lived in California for past 15 years claims that most people call him 'crazy' for going so near to predator. In an interview with an international media outlet, Rannachan claims that sharks are very polarising for many people and fact that y are such huge predators and one can spend so much time hanging out in same water with m is totally incredible. 

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14:40 IST, December 13th 2019