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Safely situated in a shark cage, photographer Bill Curtsinger and his assistant snap photos of gray reef sharks flitting through the waters of the Marshall Islands off Rongelap Atoll. Emory Kristof, a leader in the field of remotely operated and robot cameras, captured this image with a shark-proof robot camera.
Photograph by Emory Kristof

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