One lucky photographer came face to face with a great white shark and lived to tell the tale. Phil Bonds was able to snap a picture of 16-foot great white a mere inches away from him while diving last year off Guadalupe Island in Mexico.

Bonds' photo, posted on Facebook and his personal photography website, is now making the rounds on social media. A nature photographer, Bonds went to Guadalupe Island last year to cage dive with the great whites. While below the surface, he left his cage to get a better view.

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“I was looking at the camera, at him and all of the sudden I see teeth and an open mouth and it’s coming right at me,” Bonds told AZ Family Monday.

Bonds, to his credit, was able to snap numerous striking pictures before making it safely back into the cage. In the image posted on Facebook, Bonds said the shark was a massive one known to divers as “The Legend.”

“The Legend was pretty jazzed up and the crew had pulled all of the baits in preparation for our departure from Guadalupe,” he wrote. “The stuff hanging from his lower jaw isn’t dental floss. Earlier during the day, he had scored a tuna snack and a piece of biodegradable twine the crew was using got caught on one of his lower teeth.”

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Guadalupe is known for shark infested waters and touts itself as “the top destination for great white shark encounters.” The quality of Bonds’ photo was helped along by the island’s clear waters and up to 150-foot visibility, according to its website. More than 228 individual great whites have been spotted in the waters where cage diving occurs.

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