无尽汪洋 13

Tiger sharks.

A dozen sharks,

each over three metres long,

have crossed hundreds of miles of ocean to attend this annual feast.

Uncannily, these fearsome predators often arrive

on the same day as the first chicks take to the air.

Nothing could have prepared these chicks

for such an encounter.

Yet, despite looking like sitting ducks,

inexperienced sharks find them hard to sink their teeth into.

In an ocean where food is so hard to come by,

the sharks can't afford to keep missing.

They must quickly perfect their technique.

For these albatross chicks,

running the gauntlet of sharks may seem an impossible challenge,

but the vast majority make it to a life in the open ocean.