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  • A stringer with a brightly colored fish trails behind a spear fisherman. There is heavy shark activity in this area of Ofu Isalnd, Manu'a Islands, American Samoa, so the smart spear fishermen keep the bleeding fish on a string way away from their bodies.
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  • A diver searches for tasty seafood in a coral reef in the National Park of Amer ican Samoa.
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  • A pick-game of baseball is played on a little-used airstrip on Ofu Island, Amer ican Samoa.
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  • National Geographic photographer Randy Olson scuba dives with his underwater camera and strobes to photograph marine life and environment on the reefs off Ofu Island.
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  • Aerial view of Tau Island landscape.
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  • A split-level view shows the mountainous terrain of the island and  the coral r eef underneath the bay waters.
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  • Samoan men haul a gift of a gutted pig to a wedding reception.
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  • During church service, a child in its mother's arms is amused by a parishioner in the next pew.
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  • Samoan workers trudge through vegetation carrying machetes and bundles made of woven pandanus leaves.
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  • Young Samoan girl attends Sunday services at Sailele Congregational parish.
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  • Children play on the beach at a youth camp.
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  • Local youngsters play on the beach at a youth camp.
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  • Local couple takes a dip in the bay at sunset.
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  • Children swimming in the bay at sunset.
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  • Families traveling to a wedding in Hawaii bring fine mats s gifts.
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  • A warm glow comes from a meeting house at twilight in the American Samoan villa ge of Sa'ielele.  Even the local dogs show up at the social center to nip at th eir fleas.
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  • A Samoan's body is covered with traditional tattoos.
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  • A Samoan family takes a dip in the bay.
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  • Father and son play in the bay.
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  • Fiatamali'i Leuta, wearing the tradtional lavalava wrap, teaches budding musici ans the trumpet.
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  • Children swimming in the bay at sunset.
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  • Clown fish seeks refuge among sea anemone tentacles.
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  • A stringer of brightly colored fish trails behind a spearfisher.
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  • Spearfishing in the bay.
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  • Spearfishing in the bay.
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  • Underwater view of swimmers and a boat at the surface of the ocean.
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  • Reading an old bible during a service.
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  • School of bottlenose dolphins.
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  • A split-level view of mountains and coral reef.
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  • A school of barracuda.
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  • Smoke from cooking 'umu', a traditional Sunday meal, fills the forest.
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  • Catching octopus.
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  • A group of American Samoan teens nap under the trees near a beach.
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  • A young boy spreads pandanus palm fronds out to dry.  The leaves will be woven into mats when dry.
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  • Tuna cannery workers leave the factory at the end of their shift.
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  • Flying fox bats hang from a limb in an American Samoa rainforest.
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