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wow
7/2015
SDAA No.84
26 EPIC STINGRAY
Text & Images by Alex Lindbloom
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#portfolio
HENRY JAGER
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#divetrip
BALI
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#icon
RAJAN
bucketlist
28 VERY VERDE
Text & Images by Mike Bartick
With the greatest recorded
shore fish biodiversity on the
planet, you need to get the
Verde Island Pass on your
bucket list asap
Takashi Murai
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#briefing
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#uw3some
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#uwphotography
An unexpected encounter with
a ray that is either the largest
stingray ever documented, or
a whole new species…
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SRI LANKA’S
UNORTHODOX WHALE
Text by Steve De Neef
Images by Franco Banfi
Encountering a unique, resident
population of blue whales, the biggest
animal that has ever lived
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25 RECORD-BREAKERS
IN ASIA PACIFIC
Text by Oliver Jarvis and Alice Grainger
Images by Various Contributors
From the biggest animals, the most
dangerous, loudest and slowest, to the
deepest ocean explorations, Asia Pacific
is packed with record breakers – some
are deadly serious, others… just for fun
whatitfeelslike
THE
30 MEET
RECORD BREAKERS
Dive champions Herbert Nisch
and Sean McGahern describe
the elation of breaking some of
the toughest underwater world
records