These pictures were taken in August 2014.

Cocos Island is a tiny, uninhabited island 300 miles off the coast of Costa Rica.
It is known for large animals, especially sharks. Hammerhead sharks can be seen there
in schools of hundreds. Whale sharks are common.

Cocos Island is very remote. It takes a day and a half by boat to reach it. There is no
airstrip or visitor accommodations. Divers stay on the boat that brought them out.

All photos were taken with a Nikon D-300 digital SLR camera in a Sea & Sea housing, Nikon 10-24mm and
60mm lenses and two Sea & Sea YS-250 strobes.

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Location of Cocos Island	Lens reflection	End of the dive	Iguana	Sunset

Sunrise	One of the many waterfalls	Our home away from home	The island and a dive skiff	Another rainy day

Whale shark	Hammerhead shark	Tiger shark	Spotted Eagle Ray	Spotted Eagle Ray and Trevally

Marbled Ray	School of Jacks	Hammerhead silhouette	School of hammerheads passing above	School of hammerheads passing above

Whale shark and Trevally	Whale shark	Diver and Whale shark	Divers and Whale shark	Diver photographing a large Amberjack

Herd of Whitetip Sharks	School of fish in tunnel	Marbled Ray and school of fish	School of fish in tunnel	Large Galapagos shark

Giant Hawkfish	Whitetip shark	Whitetip shark and school of fish	Whitetip shark and school of fish	Whitetip shark and school of fish

Hammerhead shark	Agouti	Butterfly	Mushrooms in the rain forest	Capuchin monkey in the rain forest

Crocodile in the rain forest

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