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Up and Snapping: When a Shark Is Your "Happy Place"

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When he was a child, Tom Burns read a book on a very famous breed of animal. And he fell in love.

While his days are spent treating the sick and injured pets of South Yarmouth, his free time and holidays are devoted to finding and photographing something far more toothy: Sharks.

This piece came to us from our production partners at Atlantic Public Media through their media training program, The Transom Story Workshop in Woods Hole. John is a graduate of the workshop and you can find out more about that program at Transom.org Ways of Life is edited by Jay Allison and produced by our production partners, Atlantic Public Media. It’s made possible by the Circle of Ten - Ten Local businesses and organizations  committed to local programming on WCAI.

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