Dramatic images capture moment aircraft fly just feet above holidaymakers as they swim underwater
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Sunbathing on a beautiful sandy beach in the Caribbean, most holidaymakers want to hear nothing but the sound of a gentle sea breeze and waves lapping on the shore... not the deafening roar of a commercial airliner flying mere feet above their head.
So Maho Beach on the island of Sint Maarten would be most people's idea of a vacation nightmare... unless you're an enthusiastic plane spotter.
The island's Princess Juliana International Airport is just a stone's throw away from the beach, and with one of the world's shortest runways, planes are forced to come into land at a nail-bitingly low altitude.
Commitment: 33-year-old Brazilian photographer Daniel Botelho spent eight hours per day in the water trying to get the perfect shot
Look up: Photographer Daniel Botelho has captured enormous commercial airliners coming into land just metres above the water at Maho Beach, Sint Maarten
The beach is a popular destination for plane spotters, and photographer Daniel Botelho recently spent eight hours a day in the water to capture the enormous aircraft on their final approach over the water.
The 33-year-old from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, spent a month trying to catch the perfect shot, with planes landing about five times per day.
'It was a really challenging assignment,' he says.
'I've been in the water with great whites with no cage, Nile crocodiles, giant squids, blue whales, but I can tell that these airplanes were really tough to capture as their landing speed is not less than 300 km per hour.
Hardly relaxing: While planes roaring overhead is not everyone's idea of the ideal holiday, the beach has become a popular spot for plane spotters
'We went everyday from 9am to 5pm to the beach, during one month, they have a limited number of planes coming by, about five per day and the bigger ones were my target.
'I really felt like taking tons and tons of land to get tiny gold nuggets.'
Watching the aircraft come into land has become such an attraction for holidaymakers that the flight schedule is often displayed in local bars and restaurants on the beach.
Plane selfie! Daniel spent a month photographing the planes above the water, and also made time for a quick selfie
Plane spotting: Watching the aircraft come into land has become such an attraction that the flight schedule is often displayed in local bars and restaurants on the beach
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