Local Teacher's Shark Photo Featured In 2016 Guinness Book Of World Records

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A teacher in Gloucester County has quite a fish tale to tell -- and also quite a fish tail for the whole world to see.

When Amanda Brewer is not teaching art, she is cage-diving in shark infested waters.

She took a photo while volunteering for a shark conservation group off the coast of South Africa, and the picture landed in the 2016 Guinness Book of World Records.

Most cage divers keep their heads under water, but not Amanda.

"I stay right on the surface because a lot of times the sharks will pop up out of the water, and they do some really cool things on the surface and that's how I happened to get this photograph," said Brewer.  "When I saw it printed it was just a few days ago. I was like whoa, that's my photo and that's my name and it's there, you know and all these kids and all these people in the world are going to get to see it and read it and learn about these animals."

Brewer's photo appears under the category of "largest predatory fish" in the latest edition of the Guinness Book of World Records.