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- Blacktip shark over Looe Key Reef. Image: NOAA
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- Lone nurse shark (ginglymostoma cirratum) swims over the Flower Garden Banks National Banks Marine Sanctuary. Image: NOAA
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- Leopard Shark. Image: NOAA
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- Galapagos shark in the Kure Atoll State Wildlife Refuge in NW, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument. Image: NOAA
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- Whitetip Reef shark at Kure Atoll Wildlife Refuge – NW Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument. Image: NOAA
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- Nurse shark that is relaxing under a reef ledge in the Florida Keys. Image: NOAA
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- Salmon shark (Lamna ditropis), with a tag under dorsal fin. Credit: Dave Clausen (AFSC), Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries Service.
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- Tagged shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) off the coast of Southern California near the Channel Islands. Photo credit: Mark Conlin, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries Service
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- Blue shark (Prionace glauca) cruising off the Channel Islands. Photo credit: Mark Conlin, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries Service
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- A blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus) cruising over a reef. Photo: David Burdick, NOAA.
A diver is touching a great white shark.
The photo shows a diver touching a great white shark on the snout. Photo credit: Flickr – Iggy. Creative commons license (CC BY 2.0).
A group of hammerhead sharks in a sea of blue water.
The photo shows a school of hammerhead sharks circling a reef in the open ocean. The scuba diver is below, looking up through the blue water towards the surface. Photo credit: Flickr - ryn413. Creative commons license (CC BY 2.0).