The Conservancy's Palmyra Atoll has become the ultimate living laboratory for researchers who spend their days working in some of the healthiest—and . most dangerous—shark habitat in the world. FOR YEARS, KYDD POLLOCK HAS DIVED WITH SHARKS. Yet even now he is awed by the animals' ability to gather together, like specters, seemingly from nowhere. "I'll scan around and see nothing," he says. "And only moments later, I can look up again, and they're right there. They're just amazing creatures." But on November 11, 2010, Pollock got a terrifying glimpse of just how wild the animals can be. That day, Pollock, the chief of marine operations at the Conservancy's Palmyra Atoll preserve in the central Pacific, accompanied several researchers as they boated to the outskirts of the islands.
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