There were two close calls for two of West Palm Beach underwater-nude photographer Todd Essick’s models. Essick was working on a new coffee-table picture book of disrobed women interacting with sea life in the Bahamas last week when his muses bumped into overly friendly reef sharks.
“We push the envelope,” Essick said. “And there are some risks involved.”
One model, 26-year-old San Francisco mermaid Renata Foucre, has 22 puncture wounds on her left foot and a prescription for antibiotics to prove it.
And a colleague, Boca siren Missy Kehoe, found a 6-foot shark entangled in the fishnet costume she wore for her pictorial. That beast found its way out without hurting her.
“I’m not sure I’ll ever do that again,” Foucre said. “The shark definitely clamped down. There are bruises around each puncture wound, lined up from my toes to the ankle.
“I’m lucky he didn’t thrash after he got me.”
Foucre’s mistake, said Nassau shark specialist David Eads, was to wear a flowing nightgown covered in sequins that sparkled like silvery small fry on a clear morning.
by Jose Lambiet. Read more at Underwater Times
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