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Christian McDonald, the Scientific Diving Safety Officer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, tows a surface float at Millennium Atoll in the South Pacific.
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Diver With Shark

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Two red flame scallops with white tentacles attached to a sandy substrate.
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Flame Scallop

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"Pirate fishing vessel converted to a home in Lembeh Strait off North Sulawesi, Indonesia," wrote Claire Fackler of her winning image.
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Converted Pirate Fishing Vessel

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Trash Detective and microbial ecologist Peter Davison and crew haul in the Oozeki net, used to collect fish and other organisms living between 650 and 2,600 feet, at sunrise. Operations aboard the SEAPLEX cruise happened 24 hours a day around the clock.
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Oozeki Net

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Trash Detective and marine ecologist Chelsea Rochman cruises through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, net in hand, scooping up plastic, fouling communities and more.
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Trash Detectives at Work

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Scientists process ARMS
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Processing ARMS

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Biofilm (microbial life that clings to underwater painted surfaces and is generally found covering the bottom of ships) is collected from the hull of a cargo ship with a funnel and syringe.
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Sampling Biofilm

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A deep sea crab (Rochinia crassa) poses with sea fan (Callogorgia spp.) and coral (Lophelia pertusa) on large carbonate boulder.
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Deep-sea Coral In the Gulf of Mexico

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Volunteers unloading water from helicopter
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Aftermath

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leveled crops
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Typhoon Damage

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Staghorn Coral
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Staghorn Coral in a Hurricane

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The five turbines off of Block Island successfully withstood winter storm Stella in March 2017, and even produced power through most of the storm. 
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Block Island Wind Turbines in Storm

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