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Wakatobi–Underwater Reef Photos

October 16, 2007

Amazing Underwater Reef Photos.

Colorful World Below the Waves-Photos

October 16, 2007

Colorful World Below the WavesPhotograph by Tim Laman For reasons known only to nature, color explodes across coral reefs, making them Earth’s most vivid landscapes. Here in the shallows of a Fijian reef, brilliant soft corals wave in reds, pinks, and yellows as schools of fairy basslets flash orange and violet hues. The basslets’ different […]

‘Bringing the Ocean to the World,’ in High-Def

September 6, 2007

Thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables are strung across the world’s oceans, connecting continents like so many tin cans in this age of critical global communication. So the fact that about 800 more miles of fiber-optic cable will soon thread the sea floor off the coast of the Pacific Northwest might not seem particularly revolutionary. […]