Video: Photographer shoots underwater glamour shots with crocodiles

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Yes, we really, really encourage you not to try this at home. 

The New York Post has released an incredible video of a photographer and model partaking in an “underwater glamour” photoshoot with crocodiles.

Photographer Ken Kiefer travelled with his wife and two other models into the water of the Chinchorro Banks in Mexico to undertake a project he says was two years in the making - an underwater photoshoot with models and crocodiles.

Safety on set appears to be fairly rudimentary: the crew used lionfish in order to bait the crocodiles to come closer towards the human subjects, with safety divers armed with poles on hand to protect the crew if anything got out of hand. 

According to PetaPixel, it's not the first time a shoot like this has been done, with Italian 'daredevil model' Roberta Mancino doing a similar shoot in the Gulf of Mexico:

Our advice? No 15 minutes of fame is worth your life. 

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