Predators, Prey and When Nature Turns the Tables

One of my great joys in being in nature, with wild animals, is having the tables turned - everything I thought I knew, tossed on its ear, and I was forced to rethink who I am and what I'm doing on this planet. The following by underwater photographer Paul Nicklen describes his most amazing experience as a National Geographic photographer - coming face-to-face with one of Antarctica's most vicious predators and things not going at all the way he imagined.


PS - just a note, film crew for David Attenborough's Life in the Freezer series on Antarctica had a very similar experience - perhaps we've unjustly named this selective, and sometimes sensitive predator?