Editor’s note: Observed every year on June 8, World Oceans Day seeks to honour, help protect, and remind us all of the exceptional need to conserve the world’s oceans. A day that us, as a bunch of sea-loving Aussies in the T+T office, can most certainly get behind. And a day that we thought perfect to revisit these 12 pictures and their stories that were graciously shared with us from the pages of Blancpain’s Edition Fifty Fathoms by its editor, Dietmar Fuchs. Each year as part of the Blancpain Ocean Commitment project, 12 of the world’s best underwater photos are showcased in the annual publication. And these are some of the best since printing began in 2008. Oh, and in case you missed it, there’s a new Ocean Commitment watch to admire too. Blue in Profile — Anacapa Passage, California, 1981 Ernest H. Brooks II — Edition Fifty Fathoms 2008 “It was in early 1981 when I was going out nearly every day to take pictures of seals that I realised that, on all my dives with the seals, a lonely blue shark was circling us far in the distance. In the following days he came closer and closer until one day he…
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