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Kneeling on the sea bottom in a place known as Tiger Beach, I watched a 12-foot- long female tiger shark cruise over the turtle grass with three silver bar jacks swimming in front of her nose.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: Bar Beach Bottom Cruise Female Front Grass Her Known Long Nose Over Place Sea Shark Silver Swimming Three Tiger Turtle Watched

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New England waters are some of my favorite - they are some of the richest waters because they are temperate waters and nutrient-rich, and therefore provide food for so many animals, from giant whales to sharks to everything else.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: Animals Because Else England Everything Everything Else Favorite Food Giant Many New New England Provide Richest Sharks Some Temperate Therefore Waters Whales

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I've been diving for about 30 years, and I can honestly say that I've had some amazing encounters with sharks, squids, and other whales. But the encounter with the right whales in the Auckland Islands was probably the best thing I've ever done. It was just that amazing.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: About Amazing Been Best Diving Done Encounter Encounters Ever Had Honestly Islands Just Other Right Say Sharks Some Thing Whales Years I Can

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All in all, the dives I made in Fiordland were some of the best I've ever made.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: Best Ever Made Some Were

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For a photographer, sharks are a stirring subject, possessing a perfect blend of grace and power. They have been sculpted by evolution and are ideally suited for whichever ecosystem they inhabit, from coral reefs to the open ocean.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: Been Blend Coral Ecosystem Evolution Grace Ideally Inhabit Ocean Open Perfect Photographer Possessing Power Sharks Stirring Subject Suited

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Photography can be a powerful instrument for change, and photojournalists can tell stories that make a difference.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: Change Difference Instrument Make Make A Difference Photography Powerful Stories Tell

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I typically shoot underwater with my regular camera in an underwater housing, and then I usually have two big strobes that I use to light. But with whales, you're not going to be able to really light a 45-foot subject. Your strobes are only effective for maybe five or six feet underwater.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: Able Big Camera Effective Feet Five Going Housing Light Maybe Only Really Regular Shoot Six Subject Then Two Underwater Use Whales You Your

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I finally became a scuba diver at age 15 or so, and a couple of years after that, I attended a dive show that is held every year in Boston. It's the oldest one in the world and it's still going on - it's called the Sea Rovers.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: After Age Attended Became Boston Couple Dive Every Finally Going Held Oldest Scuba Sea Show Still World Year Years

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Under the snowcapped mountains of Fiordland National Park, freshwater streams empty into the saltwater fiords, creating a unique ecosystem. This is a heavily wooded park, so the water in the streams is stained with tannin, a substance found in plants that makes clean water seem dirty, though it isn't.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: Clean Clean Water Creating Dirty Ecosystem Empty Found Makes Mountains National National Park Park Plants Seem Stained Streams Substance Though Unique Water

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On Cape Cod, great white shark stocks have been growing, or at least becoming more concentrated, because of the multiplying numbers of seals around Monomoy Island. We are fortunate to have such abundance of these sharks in our own waters. Around the globe, we are killing in excess of 100 million sharks each year.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: Abundance Around Because Becoming Been Cape Concentrated Each Each Year Excess Fortunate Globe Great Growing Island Least Million More Numbers Our Own Shark Sharks Stocks Waters White Year

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Photographer

Born: Unknown

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