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I have been blessed to realize my dream of becoming an underwater photojournalist, but with that, I feel an obligation and sense of urgency to share what I have seen with others.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: Becoming Been Blessed Dream Feel Obligation Others Realize Seen Sense Share Underwater Urgency I Feel

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For decades I have tried to peel back the layers of mystery surrounding many marine creatures, though most have held tightly to their secrets. One animal that keeps me pondering is the shark. Spellbound by these enigmatic animals since I first encountered them in New England, I never tire of watching their special blend of power and grace.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: Animal Animals Back Blend Creatures Decades Encountered England Enigmatic First Grace Held Keeps Layers Many Marine Me Most Mystery Never New New England Peel Power Secrets Shark Since Special Surrounding Them Though Tightly Tire Tried Watching

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The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches - all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing multiple shark species in exquisite water was the assignment I had dreamed about from the start.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: About Assignment Bahamas Beds Coral Deep Dreamed Ecosystems Exquisite Grass Had Multiple Perfect Photographing Sea Shallow Shark Sharks Species Start Trenches Water

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Sharks don't particularly have a great interest in divers. It seemed that in a normal dive, I would jump in the water, and one or two gray reef sharks would swim in and kind of check me out - and then they would keep their distance. So they weren't particularly threatening or anything to be afraid of.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: Afraid Anything Check Distance Dive Divers Gray Great Interest Jump Keep Kind Me Normal One Or Two Out Particularly Seemed Sharks Swim Then Threatening Two Water Were Would

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The bohar snapper - they have these huge canines. I got bit by one. One took a chunk out of my ear - they are much scarier than the sharks.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: Bit Chunk Ear Got Huge Much Out Sharks Than Took

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I think that most people would associate big schools of fish with healthy coral reefs. At Kingman, the predators keep the herd thin, so there aren't a lot of big fish schools.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: Associate Big Coral Fish Healthy Herd Keep Lot Most People Predators Schools Thin Think Would I Think

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The Oceanic White Tip is considered one of the most dangerous sharks in the sea along with the Great White and Tiger. It is responsible for some of the most famous episodes of man-eating in history, such as when the U.S.S. Indianapolis sank in 1945.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: Along Considered Dangerous Episodes Famous Great History Most Responsible Sea Sharks Some Tiger Tip White

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I flipped through a book on harp seals in the late 1970s and saw images of them swimming in emerald green pools of water surrounded by huge sheets of ice. Right then I was hooked, and I knew this was a story I wanted to do.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: Book Flipped Green Harp Hooked Huge Ice Images Knew Late Pools Right Saw Sheets Story Surrounded Swimming Them Then Through Wanted Water 1970S

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I was the first journalist allowed on a hunting boat during harp seal season in almost 15 years. Around the late 1970s, white coat pups became the poster child for the anti-fur movement, and by the '80s, the media was lambasting the hunters for killing them.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: Allowed Almost Around Became Boat Child Coat First Harp Hunters Hunting Journalist Late Media Movement Poster Seal Season Them White Years 1970S

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Photographer

Born: Unknown

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