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Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts. Image ID: 00627 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	A kelp forest, with sunbeams passing through kelp fronds. Giant kelp, the fastest growing plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky bottom to the ocean's surface like a terrestrial forest. Image ID: 02411 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	A SCUBA diver swims through a giant kelp forest which is tilted back by strong ocean currents. Giant kelp, the fastest plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky bottom to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest. Image ID: 01107 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA

Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts. Image ID: 02435 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA	Blue shark and offshore drift kelp. Image ID: 01078 Species: Blue shark, Prionace glauca, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Diego, California, USA	Blue shark underneath drift kelp, open ocean. Image ID: 01081 Species: Blue shark, Prionace glauca, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Diego, California, USA

Kelp fronds and pneumatocysts. Pneumatocysts, gas-filled bladders, float the kelp plant off the ocean bottom toward the surface and sunlight, where the leaf-like blades and stipes of the kelp plant grow fastest. Giant kelp can grow up to 2' in a single day given optimal conditions. Epic submarine forests of kelp grow throughout California's Southern Channel Islands. Image ID: 25396 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Blue shark and offshore drift kelp. Image ID: 01077 Species: Blue shark, Prionace glauca, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Diego, California, USA	Blue shark and offshore drift kelp. Image ID: 01082 Species: Blue shark, Prionace glauca, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Diego, California, USA

Blue shark underneath offshore drift kelp, open ocean. Image ID: 01153 Species: Blue shark, Prionace glauca, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Diego, California, USA	Boat Horizon above kelp forest. Image ID: 03764 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Kelp fronds and pneumatocysts. Pneumatocysts, gas-filled bladders, float the kelp plant off the ocean bottom toward the surface and sunlight, where the leaf-like blades and stipes of the kelp plant grow fastest. Giant kelp can grow up to 2' in a single day given optimal conditions. Epic submarine forests of kelp grow throughout California's Southern Channel Islands. Image ID: 23424 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA

Kelp fronds and pneumatocysts. Pneumatocysts, gas-filled bladders, float the kelp plant off the ocean bottom toward the surface and sunlight, where the leaf-like blades and stipes of the kelp plant grow fastest. Giant kelp can grow up to 2' in a single day given optimal conditions. Epic submarine forests of kelp grow throughout California's Southern Channel Islands. Image ID: 23430 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Kelp fronds and pneumatocysts. Pneumatocysts, gas-filled bladders, float the kelp plant off the ocean bottom toward the surface and sunlight, where the leaf-like blades and stipes of the kelp plant grow fastest. Giant kelp can grow up to 2' in a single day given optimal conditions. Epic submarine forests of kelp grow throughout California's Southern Channel Islands. Image ID: 25399 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Kelp fronds and pneumatocysts. Pneumatocysts, gas-filled bladders, float the kelp plant off the ocean bottom toward the surface and sunlight, where the leaf-like blades and stipes of the kelp plant grow fastest. Giant kelp can grow up to 2' in a single day given optimal conditions. Epic submarine forests of kelp grow throughout California's Southern Channel Islands. Image ID: 25403 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA

Kelp fronds and pneumatocysts. Pneumatocysts, gas-filled bladders, float the kelp plant off the ocean bottom toward the surface and sunlight, where the leaf-like blades and stipes of the kelp plant grow fastest. Giant kelp can grow up to 2' in a single day given optimal conditions. Epic submarine forests of kelp grow throughout California's Southern Channel Islands. Image ID: 25412 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Kelp canopy. Image ID: 00250 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Jack mackerel schooling amid kelp forest. Image ID: 00256 Species: Pacific jack mackerel, Trachurus symmetricus, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA

California bat ray in kelp forest. Image ID: 00267 Species: California bat ray, Myliobatis californica, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Jack mackerel and kelp. Image ID: 00380 Species: Pacific jack mackerel, Trachurus symmetricus, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Kelp canopy. Image ID: 00600 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA

Kelp canopy. Image ID: 00601 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Kelp canopy. Image ID: 00602 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts. Image ID: 00617 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA

Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts. Image ID: 00628 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Jack mackerel schooling in kelp. Image ID: 01019 Species: Pacific jack mackerel, Trachurus symmetricus, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Salema schooling amid kelp forest. Image ID: 01022 Species: Salema, Xenistius californiensis, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA

Kelp plants with fronds extended in current. Image ID: 01050 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Garibaldi in kelp forest. Image ID: 01055 Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Kelp fronds. Image ID: 01273 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA