PHOTO OF THE DAY July 19, 2005  

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Where Puget Sound, Washington
When 1971
Photographer Bates Littlehales

"The splendors of the depths are known to a fortunate few, like this biologist tagging a giant Pacific octopus in Washington's Puget Sound."

—From "Special Issue: Best of America", September 2002, National Geographic magazine


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