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Wes Skiles

23 July

Photographer Wes Skiles, whose work will soon grace the cover of the August 2010 National Geographic, loved water and braved countless dangers filming it. He died Wednesday, July 21, in a diving accident off Boynton Beach. He was 52. The cause of his death is unknown. Read the story.

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Septemeber, 2005: Cave divers Tom Morris and Jill Heinerth enter an enormous room inside Silver Glen Spring in order to gather water chemistry data from its depths. (Photo by Wes Skiles)

 
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