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Breaking wave, fast motion and blur. The Wedge. Pacific Photo. Image ID: 14355 Session: The Wedge, Newport Beach, California, September 25, 2005 Location: The Wedge, Newport Beach, California, USA	North Pacific humpback whales, a mother and calf pair swim closely together just under the surface of the ocean. The calf with remain with its mother for about a year, migrating from Hawaii to Alaska to feed on herring. Pacific Picture. Image ID: 00140 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA	North Pacific humpback whale, breach. Stock Photography of Pacific. Image ID: 00205 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA

Guadalupe fur seals, floating upside down underwater over a rocky reef covered with golden kelp at Guadalupe Island. Photograph of Pacific. Image ID: 02113 Species: Guadalupe fur seal, Arctocephalus townsendi Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico	Guadalupe fur seal, floating upside down under the ocean's surface at Guadalupe Island, watching the photographer and looking for passing predators. Pacific Photos. Image ID: 02114 Species: Guadalupe fur seal, Arctocephalus townsendi Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico	Two blue whales, a mother and her calf, swim through the open ocean in this aerial photograph. The calf is blowing (spouting, exhaling) with a powerful column of spray. The blue whale is the largest animal ever to live on Earth. Pacific Image. Image ID: 02304 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: San Diego, California, USA

Breaking wave, Ponto, South Carlsbad. Professional stock photos of Pacific. Image ID: 17679 Session: Ponto, South Carlsbad, California, October 20, 2006 Location: Ponto, Carlsbad, California, USA	A great white shark opens it mouth just before it attacks its prey with a crippling, powerful bite. After the prey has been disabled, the shark will often wait for it to weaken from blood loss before resuming the attack. If the shark looses a tooth in the course of the bite, a replacement just behind it will move forward to take its place. Pictures of Pacific. Image ID: 19452 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico	Breaking wave, early morning surf. Pacific Photo. Image ID: 19404 Session: Ponto, South Carlsbad, California, September 3, 2007 Location: Ponto, Carlsbad, California, USA

Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts. Pacific Picture. Image ID: 00627 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	A whale shark swims through the open ocean in the Galapagos Islands. The whale shark is the largest shark on Earth, but is harmless eating plankton and small fish. Stock Photography of Pacific. Image ID: 01520 Species: Whale shark, Rhincodon typus Location: Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador	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. Photograph of Pacific. Image ID: 02411 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA

A great white shark swims through the clear waters of Isla Guadalupe, far offshore of the Pacific Coast of Baja California. Guadalupe Island is host to a concentration of large great white sharks, which visit the island to feed on pinnipeds and tuna. Pacific Photos. Image ID: 07666 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico	Galapagos shark swims over a reef in the Galapagos Islands, with schooling fish in the distance. Pacific Image. Image ID: 16240 Species: Galapagos shark, Carcharhinus galapagensis Location: Wolf Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador	Scalloped hammerhead shark swims over a reef in the Galapagos Islands. The hammerheads eyes and other sensor organs are placed far apart on its wide head to give the shark greater ability to sense the location of prey. Professional stock photos of Pacific. Image ID: 16246 Species: Scalloped hammerhead shark, Sphyrna lewini Location: Wolf Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

A great white shark swims through the clear waters of Isla Guadalupe, far offshore of the Pacific Coast of Mexico's Baja California. Guadalupe Island is host to a concentration of large great white sharks, which visit the island to feed on pinnipeds and use it as a staging area before journeying farther into the Pacific ocean. Pictures of Pacific. Image ID: 19465 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico	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. Pacific Photo. Image ID: 01107 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Galapagos sea lion pup, Punta Espinosa. Pacific Picture. Image ID: 01611 Species: Galapagos sea lion, Zalophus californianus wollebacki, Zalophus californianus wollebaeki Location: Fernandina Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

California sea lions swim and socialize over a kelp-covered rocky reef, underwater at San Clemente Island in California's southern Channel Islands. Stock Photography of Pacific. Image ID: 02158 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	A humpback whale hovers motionless underwater in the ocean, inverted with head down and long pectoral fins held wide, near the Hawaiian island of Maui as it sings the famous "Song of the Humpback Whale". Scientists have strong evidence that only male humpback whales sing. Photograph of Pacific. Image ID: 02796 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA	Ocean sunfish recruiting fish near drift kelp to clean parasites, open ocean, Baja California. Pacific Photos. Image ID: 03267 Species: Ocean sunfish, Mola mola

Humpback whale breaching with pectoral fins lifting spray from the ocean surface. Pacific Image. Image ID: 03854 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA	2006 Mavericks surf contest champion Grant Twiggy Baker of South Africa. Final round, Mavericks surf contest, February 7, 2006. Professional stock photos of Pacific. Image ID: 15299 Session: Mavericks, Half Moon Bay, California, February 7, 2006 Location: Mavericks, Half Moon Bay, California, USA	Brown booby flying over Rose Atoll at sunset, with dark colorful storm clouds and other birds in the background. Pictures of Pacific. Image ID: 00914 Species: Brown booby, Sula leucogaster Location: Rose Atoll National Wildlife Sanctuary, American Samoa, USA

A SCUBA diver swimming over a rocky reef covered with kelp, watches a brightly colored orange garibaldi fish. Pacific Photo. Image ID: 01113 Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	A white tern, or fairy tern, alights on a branch at Rose Atoll in American Samoa. Pacific Picture. Image ID: 00871 Species: Fairy tern, Gygis alba Location: Rose Atoll National Wildlife Sanctuary, American Samoa, USA	Hotel del Coronado with holiday Christmas night lights, known affectionately as the Hotel Del. It was once the largest hotel in the world, and is one of the few remaining wooden Victorian beach resorts. It sits on the beach on Coronado Island, seen here with downtown San Diego in the distance. It is widely considered to be one of Americas most beautiful and classic hotels. Built in 1888, it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1977. Stock Photography of Pacific. Image ID: 27396 Location: San Diego, California, USA

Bigeye trevally jacks, motion blur, schooling. Photograph of Pacific. Image ID: 16347 Species: Bigeye jack, Caranx sexfasciatus Location: Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador	Breaking wave, tube, hollow barrel, morning surf. Pacific Photos. Image ID: 19553 Session: Cardiff, California, October 21, 2007	Hawaiian spinner dolphin, resting herd swimming along reef. Pacific Image. Image ID: 00108 Species: Hawaiian spinner dolphin, Stenella longirostris Location: Lanai, Hawaii, USA