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Soft Coral on the Hirokawa Maru
Story behind the shot
Sometimes the most beautiful things can be found in the strangest of places. I photographed this gorgeous soft coral on the deck of the massive Hirokawa Maru - a Japanese transport ship that was run aground and bombed in November of 1942 as a casualty of World War II. The wreck now sits in fairly shallow water just off the shore of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.