++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: THIS VIDEO HAS BEEN LOOPED++ This is the heart-stopping moment a brave diver comes face to face with a whitetip shark to pull out a hook from its mouth.<br /><br />The slow-motion clip, captured off the Bahamas, shows the diver and marine biologist Leigh Cobb giving the shark bait before pulling out the hook from the animal’s mouth. <br /><br />The filmer writes: ''I fed her and then call her in with my right hand. <br /><br />''I hold her front of the nose which you can see she closes her eyes into tonic immobility, right-hand twists the final twist and the hook is out.<br /><br />''These sharks are critically endangered and we need to protect them from extinction. <br /><br />''We spent 4 days with these sharks diving up to 6 hours every day, we had 12 sharks every day, most with hooks which wouldn’t rust out without our intervention.''<br /><br />Oceanic whitetip sharks are listed as threatened species after being decimated by fishing and the shark fin trade.
