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I love storytelling, I love being a visual person, and it just made perfect sense to be an underwater photographer and explore the ocean and work with scientists.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: Being Explore Just Love Made Ocean Perfect Person Photographer Scientists Sense Storytelling Underwater Visual Work I Love

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Most whale photos you see show whales in this beautiful blue water - it's almost like space.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: Almost Beautiful Blue Like Most Photos See Show Space Water Whale Whales You

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Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator-prey balance dramatically shifts, and the health of our oceans declines.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: Balance Begins Cards Crash Disappear Dramatically Ecosystem Health House House Of Cards Like Oceans Our Predators Remove Sharks Shifts Whole

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I think that going to the beach as a child, being in the water and smelling that salt air and hearing the seagulls, it had a real calming effect. But also, it was a mysterious thing - I remember wondering what was under those dark New England seas.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: Air Also Beach Being Calming Child Dark Effect England Going Had Hearing Mysterious New New England Real Remember Salt Seagull Seas Smelling Thing Think Those Water Wondering I Think I Remember

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I still think there's a big part of the population that has a lot of misinformation about sharks. But I think it's beginning to change a little bit. As good information about sharks permeates popular culture, things may start to change.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: About Beginning Big Big Part Bit Change Culture Good Information Little Little Bit Lot May Misinformation Part Popular Popular Culture Population Sharks Start Still Things Think I Think

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For where Kingman is located, the coral cover is unique in the world. I refer to it as a universe of hard corals. You are not going to find soft corals like in the western Pacific - places like Indonesia, Palau, or Fiji.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: Coral Cover Fiji Find Going Hard Indonesia Like Located Pacific Places Refer Soft Unique Universe Western Where World You

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As a young boy, I was very interested - as I still am - in all sorts of adventure and exploration. I thought about being an astronaut, a dinosaur scientist, or marine biologist, but I clearly was drawn to the ocean and to the water.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: About Adventure Am Astronaut Being Biologist Boy Clearly Dinosaur Drawn Exploration Interested Marine Ocean Scientist Sort Still Thought Very Water Young

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Since the majority of the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean, not to mention much of the world's protein, it is not an exaggeration to say that when our oceans' health declines, our very survival is at risk.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: Breathe Exaggeration Health Majority Mention Much Ocean Oceans Our Oxygen Protein Risk Say Since Survival Very World

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I have photographed sharks in waters around the globe, and I always want more and yearn to peer deeper into their world. To feed my passion and to raise awareness, I developed a story about sharks for 'National Geographic' magazine.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: About Always Around Awareness Deeper Developed Feed Geographic Globe Magazine More National National Geographic Passion Peer Photographed Raise Sharks Story Want Waters World Yearn

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I swam with my first shark in the 1980s. I was 20 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, working with a group of marine scientists. Late in the day, a 5-foot long blue shark swam into our chum slick. For the next hour, I marveled at the animal's stunning indigo color and the elegant way she moved effortlessly through the sea.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: Animal Blue Coast Color Day Effortlessly Elegant First Group Hour Island Late Long Marine Miles Moved Next Off Our Rhode Rhode Island Scientists Sea Shark She Slick Stunning Through Way Working 1980S

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Photographer

Born: Unknown

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