Brian Skerry Quotes

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• Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
• There's still a lot of people out there who think the only good shark is a dead shark.
• The Internet and my web site have grown to become essential components of my business. The expertise and support that LuxSci continually delivers is crucial…
• As a young boy, I was very interested - as I still am - in all sorts of adventure and exploration. I thought about being…
• I think that going to the beach as a child, being in the water and smelling that salt air and hearing the seagulls, it had…
• I love storytelling, I love being a visual person, and it just made perfect sense to be an underwater photographer and explore the ocean and…
• New England waters are some of my favorite - they are some of the richest waters because they are temperate waters and nutrient-rich, and therefore…
• For a photographer, sharks are a stirring subject, possessing a perfect blend of grace and power. They have been sculpted by evolution and are ideally…
• On Cape Cod, great white shark stocks have been growing, or at least becoming more concentrated, because of the multiplying numbers of seals around Monomoy…
• Photography can be a powerful instrument for change, and photojournalists can tell stories that make a difference.
• I have been blessed to realize my dream of becoming an underwater photojournalist, but with that, I feel an obligation and sense of urgency to…
• For decades I have tried to peel back the layers of mystery surrounding many marine creatures, though most have held tightly to their secrets. One…
• The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches - all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing multiple shark species…
• Kneeling on the sea bottom in a place known as Tiger Beach, I watched a 12-foot- long female tiger shark cruise over the turtle grass…
• Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator-prey balance dramatically shifts, and…
• The bohar snapper - they have these huge canines. I got bit by one. One took a chunk out of my ear - they are…
• For where Kingman is located, the coral cover is unique in the world. I refer to it as a universe of hard corals. You are…
• The Oceanic White Tip is considered one of the most dangerous sharks in the sea along with the Great White and Tiger. It is responsible…
• I flipped through a book on harp seals in the late 1970s and saw images of them swimming in emerald green pools of water surrounded…

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