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“A Blue Education: Encountering Sharks in the Azores”

Anita Verde and Peter Marshall tell the story of their citizen-science workshop in the Azores and of identifying blue sharks.

Blue shark photographed in the Azores, illustrating the DivePhotoGuide article

An article written by professional photographers Anita Verde and Peter Marshall for DivePhotoGuide. They joined one of my citizen-science workshops in the Azores and helped identify several individual sharks.

Their account shows from the inside what an “educated” dive changes: you no longer simply cross paths with a blue shark, you learn to recognise it, to document its markings, and to pass those observations on to research.

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