CHINCHORRO BANKS, MEXICO: A THRILL-SEEKING photographer risked life and limb as he swam alongside a TEN-foot-long American crocodile. Stunning pictures show Mexican underwater photographer Rodrigo Friscione getting up close and personal with the two-hundred-pound predator. Other shots show the curious croc check itself out in the camera lens and poke its head above water. Rodrigo, who runs a dive shop in Cancun, took the spectacular images in Chinchorro Banks.

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Photo credit: © Media Drum World / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: american, crocodile, dangerous, predator, risky, stunning, swimming, underwater