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An oil drilling platform in oil-free water two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Gulf Oil Spill

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A golden bass with sand in the background.
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Golden Bass - Liopropoma santi

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The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry was used in the Gulf of Mexico directly after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 to map oil plumes and to search for hard bottom on the sea floor.
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AUV Sentry

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A woman standing in front of a barge
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Mary Rice: A Force of Nature

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A Barbudan fisherman with a fresh lobster catch!
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The Blue Halo – Barbuda and Beyond

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a woman with short black hair and a long necklace of pearls sits in front of a microscope and holds a small button coral
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Dr. Joan Murrell Owens

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Two scientists peer out into the ocean from inside the Curasub, a 5-person submersible
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Diving for Crabs in the Deep Sea

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A stingray swims in an Australian marine reserve.
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Shark Cousins: the Skates and Rays

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The Okeanos team comes upon an octocoral colony overgrown by zooanthid cnidarians, sea anemone-like animals, that gives it a beautiful red and orange coloring. 
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A Battle With Octocoral for Food

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The Phoenix Islands Protected Area site in Kiribati was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2010. The site encompasses one of the world's largest intact oceanic coral archipelago ecosystems, together with 14 known underwater seamounts and other deep
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Phoenix Islands Protected Area, Kiribati

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It's a pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus bargibanti), found in Indonesia's biodiverse Coral Triangle and one of the smallest seahorse species in the world! They can change colors like a chameleon to blend into their environment. This helps to protect them from p
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Can You Spot the Seahorse?

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Three gray fish swim in front of a large coral head.
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Cabo Pulmo Marine Reserve

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