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Get ready to have serious underwater photography envy. Ready? Ok.

Backscatter’s Berkley White has posted a freaking amazing video of schooling hammerhead sharks. Berkley filmed “One Dive, Two Hundred Hammerhead Sharks” on a recent trip to Cocos, where he was treated to a schooling spectacle unlike one he had seen before. According to Berkley:

"We were ending another epic dive at the world famous pinnacle known as Alcyone. The current was next to nothing yet the hammerheads were boiling up out of the deep. At the end of the dive we came up as a group and drifted off the buoy line. In the distance we saw a large dark cloud that I assumed was a giant school of jacks. It turned out to be well over 200 hammerhead sharks. As I drifted into this mega school I could see the sharks twitch when they saw me. I thought it was over when the school split into two groups, but then both groups circled back in a giant figure eight pattern to make eye contact over and over again. I was so excited I’m not sure how I kept the camera steady. It was truly one of the best dives of my life."
 

It’s going to be tough to beat that one. Check out more amazing underwater footage on Backscatter’s Vimeo page.