<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9e605825-193c-4ae4-ac75-f1577f9b7de1/B6C19726-06C1-46D7-9357-8AB5583380AE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.divephotoguide.com/articles/happy_underwater_photo___video_holidays_from_dpg" href="http://www.divephotoguide.com/articles/happy_underwater_photo___video_holidays_from_dpg" style="font-size: 11px;">www.divephotoguide.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.divephotoguide.com/articles/happy_underwater_photo___video_holidays_from_dpg"><DIV align="center"><BLOCKQUOTE><STRONG><FONT size="2">Twas the night before diving, and all through the reef</FONT>,</STRONG> </BLOCKQUOTE> </DIV> <DIV align="center"> <BLOCKQUOTE><DIV> <STRONG><FONT size="2">critters large and small breathed a sigh of relief. </FONT></STRONG></DIV>   <FONT size="2"><STRONG>There were no divers or cameras, video lights or strobes, </STRONG></FONT> <FONT size="2"><STRONG> </STRONG></FONT> <FONT size="2"><STRONG>which day after day</STRONG><STRONG> taxed their little <A title="Occipital Lobes" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipital_lobe" linkindex="94">occipital lobes</A>. </STRONG></FONT> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE>  <FONT size="2"><STRONG>The nocturnal species were all alone in the night,</STRONG></FONT> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE> <FONT size="2"><STRONG> undisturbed it felt awkward to not see even one focus light. </STRONG></FONT> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE> <STRONG><FONT size="2"> The squid, sleeping reef fish, and even <A title="Pygmy Seahorse" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_seahorse" linkindex="95" set="yes">hippocampus bargibanti</A>,</FONT></STRONG> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE> <STRONG><FONT size="2"> all began to miss the bubble blowing reef paparazzi.</FONT></STRONG> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE> <STRONG><FONT size="2"> If the absence of underwater photographers prolongs,</FONT></STRONG> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE> <STRONG><FONT size="2"> the unfortunate exploitation of the reef is forewarned. </FONT></STRONG> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE> <STRONG><FONT size="2"> Our images and videos become the ocean's eyes and ears, </FONT></STRONG> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE> <STRONG><FONT size="2"> we've documented the damage from humans for years.</FONT></STRONG> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE> <STRONG><FONT size="2"> You can't love what you don't understand is negatively changing, </FONT></STRONG> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE> <STRONG><FONT size="2">let's continue to show the world the fragile beauty worth saving.</FONT></STRONG> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE>  <FONT size="2"><STRONG>Your images and videos can help the make the world better, </STRONG></FONT> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE> <FONT size="2"><STRONG> so make a resolution for the year 2009 to be wetter. </STRONG></FONT> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE> <FONT size="2"><STRONG> Get diving more often and grease those o-rings with pride,</STRONG></FONT> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE> <FONT size="2"><STRONG> happy holidays and new year</STRONG></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B6C19726-06C1-46D7-9357-8AB5583380AE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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