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WINTER 2017
Winter 2017
CONTENTS
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THE EMERALD SEA
VANCOUVER ISLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA
Text and photos by Brandon Cole
Vancouver Island’s temperate sea is a
diver’s delight. Playful pinnipeds, beguiling
cephalopods and majestic cetaceans thrill,
while anemones, sponges and soft corals
create polychromatic disarray.
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CAYMAN’S SISTER ISLANDS
LITTLE CAYMAN AND CAYMAN BRAC
Text and photos by Stephen Frink
With stellar water clarity, colorful corals
and engaging fish, Little Cayman and
Cayman Brac are hard to resist. Offering
a slow pace topside and reefs, wrecks and
walls below, Cayman’s Sister Islands are
sure to astonish.
FEATURES
ON THE COVER:
Brandon Cole
photographed this breaching
humpback whale (
Megaptera
novaeangliae
) near Vancouver
Island, British Columbia,
Canada. To capture the image,
he used a Canon EOS-1D
Mark III camera and a Canon EF70-200mm f/2.8 lens at
180mm with an exposure of 1/2000 sec @ f/5.6, ISO 250.
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Adelie penguin in the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
Photo by John B. Weller