THOMAS P. PESCHAK

The December 2008 issue of Africa Geographic features my cover story on the Save our Seas Foundation Expedition to the remote Indian Ocean atoll of Aldabra. My arrival on the atoll was greeted by a school of 50 blacktip reef sharks and I immediately knew that I have entered a venerable shark paradise. After years wondering what it would have been like to have explored the Caribbean before Columbus or dive California’s kelp forests before overfishing, this assignment made my dreams of exploring and documenting a marine ecosystem untouched by the hand of man come true.