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Alert Diver is the dive industry’s leading publication. Featuring DAN’s core content of dive safety, research, education and medical information, each issue is a must-read reference, archived and shared by passionate scuba enthusiasts. In addition, Alert Diver showcases fascinating dive destinations and marine environmental topics through images from the world’s greatest underwater photographers and stories from the most experienced and eloquent dive journalists in the business.
Alert Diver is the dive industry’s leading publication. Featuring DAN’s core content of dive safety, research, education and medical information, each issue is a must-read reference, archived and shared by passionate scuba enthusiasts. In addition, Alert Diver showcases fascinating dive destinations and marine environmental topics through images from the world’s greatest underwater photographers and stories from the most experienced and eloquent dive journalists in the business.
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HUMPBACK WHALE, SILVER BANK, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC<br />
All who make the sojourn to the Silver Bank, Dominican Republic, between February and<br />
April go to be in the water with Atlantic humpback whales. But even while at anchor on the<br />
liveaboard, the action can begin at any moment. We noticed a lot of surface action not far<br />
from the boat and ventured out to observe three male humpbacks in an apparent competition,<br />
displaying all manner of grunting and roaring vocalizations, rostrum blows, lateral fluke swipes,<br />
bubble streams and head lunges in the course of mating challenges. Here a male humpback<br />
whale breaches after dueling a few other males for a female. This image is a composite of<br />
three frames from a motor-drive sequence of a single whale and a single breach.<br />
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