CANCUN, MEXICO: A BRAVE nature photographer plunged into 25-feet of water to within INCHES to bring back the closest possible pictures of a potentially lethal five-foot long wild crocodile. Jumping into a freshwater limestone sinkhole infested with crocodiles is not everyone’s cup of tea – but for one intrepid photographer it is all in a day’s work – and well worth it to capture intimate shots of one of nature’s most fearsome predators. To take the extraordinary shots, local nature photographer Javier Sandoval (35) from Cancun, Mexico jumped in a natural sinkhole formed from limestone called a

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CANCUN, MEXICO: A BRAVE nature photographer plunged into 25-feet of water to within INCHES to bring back the closest possible pictures of a potentially lethal five-foot long wild crocodile. Jumping into a freshwater limestone sinkhole infested with crocodiles is not everyone’s cup of tea – but for one intrepid photographer it is all in a day’s work – and well worth it to capture intimate shots of one of nature’s most fearsome predators. To take the extraordinary shots, local nature photographer Javier Sandoval (35) from Cancun, Mexico jumped in a natural sinkhole formed from limestone called a “cenote” in Mexico.

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Keywords: cenote, crocodile, crocodilus, maya, mexico, moreleti, moreletii, nature, riviera, swimming, tulum, underwater, yucatan