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Diver surrounded by a ring of barracuda
February 22, 2010

Barracuda, Bismarck Sea

This Month in Photo of the Day: Animal Photos

A school of barracuda surrounds a naturalist in the Bismarck Sea off New Hanover island, Papua New Guinea.

 

This photograph appeared in the April 1988 National Geographic story "Wreck of the Coolidge."

Photograph by David Doubilet
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