Mesmerize Print Size:60" x 40" (152cm x 102cm) I was swimming hard into

I was swimming hard into the current

A charismatic green turtle swimming past my dome port on the edge of the reef near Lady Elliot Island on the Southern Great Barrier Reef

I swam into a school of clearly agitated big-eye trevally

A close encounter with a beautiful green turtle on the Great Barrier Reef

She allowed me to get close enough for a photo before swimming into the reef for protection

Mesmerize Print Size:60" x 40" (152cm x 102cm) I was swimming hard intoA close encounter with a beautiful green turtle on the Great Barrier Reef. Green turtles are on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species and listed as Endangered with populations decreasing.