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immersive diving adventures may never relate, unless people like Skerry
make it their lives’ work to communicate via mainstream channels. He
closes his lecture with the thought that the ocean is resilient and tolerant
and that it is not too late to reverse some dire trends. We hope he’s right.
STEPHEN FRINK//
In every career there is a point when a person
is irrevocably launched a down a particular path. What was yours?
BRIAN SKERRY//
I think my epiphany came when I was 15 years
old. I was sitting in the audience of the film festival at the Boston
Sea Rovers dive show, watching documentary films and slide
shows celebrating the beauty of the sea. I knew then I wanted
to be an explorer of the ocean. That was a lofty goal for a
A crabeater seal sleeps on
the ice in Antarctica.
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