Welcome to a tropical Pacific paradise where beauty and danger co-exist beneath the waves!
As the summit of an extinct volcano, Cocos Island is a remote Pacific paradise 480 km west of Costa Rica.
Scientists believe that hammerhead sharks use special electromagnetic sensors in their distinctive heads to locate prey and navigate across the open ocean.
Otherwise known as Costa Rica's Cocos Island, this underwater mountain - an Island of the Sharks - is a migratory gathering place for a dazzling array of sea creatures including sharks, manta rays, sea turtles and dolphins.
Boasting the world's highest concentration of large marine predators, its waters teem with white-tip, hammerhead, black-tip and silky sharks.
Cocos Island is a stopover for green turtles while they travel hundred of kilometres to find mates.
This mantis shrimp larva is one of many kinds of plankton that form the basis of the food chain at Cocos Island.
Dozens of male marbled stingrays glide in pursuit of a female in an elegant courtship dance.
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A silky shark patrols the waters of Cocos Island.
A white tip reef shark stalks a creolefish on the reefs of Cocos Island.
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