This is the breathtaking moment a daredevil diver is swept up in a whirlwind feeding frenzy of sharks. A school of 16ft, 900kg tiger sharks and oceanic black tips swarm the vulnerable swimmer who appears to remain surprisingly calm. The unnamed diver fearlessly lowered a bucket packed with sardines - a favourite of the sharks - into the water, all while still clinging to the line. He was quickly surrounded by dozens of the creatures. Dive tour operator and photographer Rainer Schimpf captured the incredible spectacle during a routine dive off the coast of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Rainer, 46, said: "It's a privilege to see big sharks up close and without a cage. I'm specialised in this kind of diving so I'm confident I'm not in any danger. "Of course there are risks, they're dangerous sharks, but we still do it. As you can see from the photographs they're are extremely tolerant, you just have to never become the prey." Rainer says there are a couple of major rules he strictly sticks to in a bid to stave off becoming a sharks dinner. He added: "I have two rules, never back-up and never swim up. I saw one diver panic once where he swam upwards, so the shark went for his flippers. "But to my knowledge, there has never been a shark related accident on these tours in South Africa." Rainer says the sardine run, which he was photographing when the scene unfolded, is happens between May and July. The shores of South Africa between Port Elizabeth and Umkomaas is the setting of one of the largest runs in the world. The German native migrated to South Africa in 1999 to work for an advertising company but quickly found his passion for photography and diving. He spends roughly 45-50 minutes under water at any one time and uses sardines as bait to bring in the sharks. Rainer said: "If a shark goes to bite the bucket that the bait is in, then you might be in trouble, as it becomes a feeding frenzy and they tend to swim blindly so you don't want to get in the way. "That's why I don't like to get too close. I don't like to touch the sharks for ethical reasons. We are intruders in their natural habitat so I don't think it's right. "Also if you touch their nose they become very irritated, and you really don't want to get on the wrong side of a 900kg shark!"

DUBLIN, IRELAND - MAY 08: 5-year-old boy rescues duckling at Blackrock park on May 8th 2013 in Dublin, Ireland. The mallard mother duck had taken her 9 newly hatched ducklings of the park pond and on to the grass beside it. The young ducklings immediately started to explore and ran away from their mother who kept quacking trying to keep them at her protective side but the youngsters paid no attention to her. After a short while one of the tiny ducklings fell into a man made steel container at the side of the pond, immediately the panicked duckling began chirping loudly for help from its mother. The tiny duckling tries many times to jump out of the water filled container but with no success. Its mother now frantic and quacking loudly could ony look on, there was nothing she could do and with that she left and took the rest of her chicks back onto the pond and the duckling was left alone and soon would be caught by a hungry meat eating bird that circled the pond. But luckily 5 year old Marcus O'Donnell and has mother Deborah O'Donnell where walking in the park and spotted the baby duck trying to jump out of the man made hazard at the side of the pond. Marcus then set about the task of rescuing the ducklling. This was not easy as the frightened little duck did not want to be picked up, but eventually Marcus got his little hands around the duckling and lifted him out. Immediately the wriggling and chirpiing duckling jumped out of boys hands and onto the grass and then dashed back into the pond and eventually caught up with its morther and the rest of its family. PHOTOGRAPH BY Paul David Hughes / Barcroft Media

SPRINGFIELD, MA - APRIL 24: A five-week-old African Lion named Sampson tries to taste photographer Michael Gordon of The Republican at The Zoo in Forest Park & Education Center on April 24, 2013 in Springfield, Massachusetts. Sampson is on loan to Springfield from a zoo in the Midwest and will be here through the summer. PHOTOGRAPH BY The Republican /Landov / Barcroft Media

A BEAMING family pose for a portrait - 400ft up a sheer cliff. Climber Craig DeMartino, his wife Cyndy and children spent the day scaling a mountain in Red Rocks, Nevada, last week (April 15). The photograph was taken by his daughter Mayah, 14, who along with brother Will, 12, have embraced the extreme family-hobby. "We were at a belay ledge anchored in with webbing and bolts in the rock," said Mr DeMartino, a professional climber from Loveland, Colorado. "I had climbed the pitch above and lowered back to the ledge and sent Mayah up with my phone to take the picture. "I lowered Mayah down after she had climbed up and she shot the picture from about 230 feet above us." The family have been climbing together for a number of years and enjoy it because 'only a handful of people' get to enjoy the same views. But while some people are blown away by the picture others have expressed concerns. Mr DeMartino added: "We posted the picture on Facebook and the reaction goes from 'awesome' to 'you are a bad parent."

PUERTO PRINCESA, PHILIPPINES - APRIL 13: Philippine coast guard personnel inspect frozen Pangolins found in the cargo hold of the Chinese fishing vessel which ran aground in Tubbataha reef off the coast of Palawan on April 13, 2013 in Puerto Princesa, Philippines. Twelve suspected Chinese poachers could face up to 20 years in prison for possession of hundreds of dead pangolins, according to authorities. The boat ran aground on 9 April. PHOTOGRAPH BY Ezra Acayan / Barcroft Media

A family of monkeys was finally caught by one of India's last monkey catchers after nine months. The simian menaces had been terrorizing the Delhi locality of Prem Nagar for the last two years. Locals say that the family of four monkeys including two small infants had been stealing food and attacking passerby’s. “ I could not even put clothes to dry on the terrace, they would chase me and run away with clothes”, Sarita Bhen, 48 told Barcroft Media. Even though monkeys are worshipped in India, , that the locals called in Bikha Bhai, one of the last professional monkey catchers in Delhi. “ I have been setting up cages to catch them for the last nine months all over the area. But Monkeys now are smarter than before, they are becoming harder to catch,” Bhika Bhai said, Bhika Bhai, has been catching monkeys for the last twenty years, “ I started in 1983, when there were a lot more monkeys to catch. It was so easy to catch them in those days and there were a lot of monkeys around. I quit my job as driver to catch them.” The monkeys caught by Bhika Bhai, are handed over to the local municipality, which releases them into the wild. Bhika Bhai claims that monkeys at a local court, which is infested with the simians, recognize him and run away when they see him. “ Whenever I walk in they run away after seeing me. I must have caught hundreds of them in the court alone.”