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A diver collects water samples.
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Ocean Sampling Day – Taking the Pulse of the World’s Oceans

If you are a bird watcher you have probably heard of the Christmas Bird Count. The...
June 2014
Fish swim around the wreck of the HMT Bedfordshire, an Arctic fishing trawler that was converted into an anti-submarine warship during World War II, and sunk off the coast of North Carolina.
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Underwater WWII Wrecks – Pollution or Cultural Heritage?

2012 marked the 70th anniversary of a series of World War II battles in the Pacific...
January 2013
A scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini) at Isla del Coco, Costa Rica.
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Do Sharks Smell in Stereo?

Animals, on land and in the ocean, live in a 3-D world, and they depend on their...
November 2010
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