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Guadalupe fur seal, floating upside down under the ocean's surface at Guadalupe Island, watching the photographer and looking for passing predators. Image ID: 02114 Species: Guadalupe fur seal, Arctocephalus townsendi Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico	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 submarine 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

Garibaldi swims in the kelp forest, sunlight filters through towering giant kelp plants rising from the ocean bottom to the surface, underwater. Image ID: 23419 Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus Location: Catalina Island, California, USA	A neonate gray whale calf, born just hours before, still exhbiting embryonic folds in the skin along its side. This baby gray whale was born in the cold waters of Big Sur, far to the north of the Mexican lagoons of Baja California where most gray whale births take place. Image ID: 01135 Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus Location: Monterey, California, USA	A great white shark swims just below the rippled ocean surface of Isla Guadalupe, far offshore of the Pacific Coast of Baja California. Image ID: 07721 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico

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	Longnose hawkfish on black coral, underwater, Sea of Cortez, Baja California. Image ID: 33616 Species: Longnose Hawkfish, Black Coral, Oxycirrhites typus, Antipatharia Location: Baja California, Mexico	Dorsal fin of a great white shark breaks the surface as the shark swims just below. Image ID: 19490 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico

Great white shark, dorsal fin extended out of the water as it swims near the surface. Image ID: 21353 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico	Beautiful underwater sunburst, glittering light through the ocean surface, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico. Image ID: 27562 Location: Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico	Yellow-tailed surgeonfish schooling, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico. Image ID: 27564 Species: Yellow-tailed surgeonfish, Prionurus laticlavius Location: Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico

Longnose Hawkfish on Black Coral, Oxycirrhites typus. Image ID: 33570 Species: Longnose Hawkfish, Black Coral, Oxycirrhites typus, Antipatharia Location: Isla San Diego, Baja California, Mexico	A great white shark swims just below the rippled ocean surface of Isla Guadalupe, far offshore of the Pacific Coast of Baja California. Image ID: 07717 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico	Sea lions resting together at the ocean surface, from underwater. Image ID: 31303 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico

Underwater Reef with Invertebrates, Gorgonians, Coral Polyps, Sea of Cortez, Baja California. Image ID: 33494 Location: Mikes Reef, Baja California, Mexico	King Angelfish, Sea of Cortez, Baja California. Image ID: 33528 Location: Isla San Diego, Baja California, Mexico	King Angelfish, Sea of Cortez, Baja California. Image ID: 33533 Location: Isla San Diego, Baja California, Mexico

Coral Hawkfish, Sea of Cortez, Baja California. Image ID: 33557 Location: Isla San Diego, Baja California, Mexico	Starfish Sea Star Detail, Sea of Cortez, Mexico. Image ID: 33558 Location: Isla San Diego, Baja California, Mexico	Coral Hawkfish, Sea of Cortez, Baja California. Image ID: 33566 Location: Isla San Diego, Baja California, Mexico

Minute starfish (sea star) living on larger starfish, Sea of Cortez, Mexico. Image ID: 33586 Location: Isla San Diego, Baja California, Mexico	Minute starfish (sea star) living on larger starfish, Sea of Cortez, Mexico. Image ID: 33587 Location: Isla San Diego, Baja California, Mexico	Coral Hawkfish, Sea of Cortez, Baja California. Image ID: 33592 Location: Isla San Diego, Baja California, Mexico

Coral Hawkfish, Sea of Cortez, Baja California. Image ID: 33593 Location: Isla San Diego, Baja California, Mexico	Coral Hawkfish, Sea of Cortez, Baja California. Image ID: 33610 Location: Baja California, Mexico	Longnose hawkfish on black coral, underwater, Sea of Cortez, Baja California. Image ID: 33615 Species: Longnose Hawkfish, Black Coral, Oxycirrhites typus, Antipatharia Location: Baja California, Mexico

Longnose hawkfish on black coral, underwater, Sea of Cortez, Baja California. Image ID: 33617 Species: Longnose Hawkfish, Black Coral, Oxycirrhites typus, Antipatharia Location: Baja California, Mexico	Cortez Angelfish, Pomacanthus zonipectus, Sea of Cortez, Mexico. Image ID: 33636 Location: Isla San Francisquito, Baja California, Mexico	In the Shallows at Isla San Francisquito, Sea of Cortez. Image ID: 33638 Location: Isla San Francisquito, Baja California, Mexico