Famed National Geographic Underwater Photographer Emory Kristof Passes Away

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Emory Kristof, a longtime underwater photographer for Nationwide Geographic Magazine, has died at age 80.

Kristof, who died on February Sixth, change into once a team photographer for the journal from 1964 to 1994, producing images for extra than 40 articles.

Kristof received the Underwater Society of The United States’s NOGI Award for Arts in 1987, and in 1986 the Explorers Membership awarded him the Loell Thomas Award for Underwater Exploration.

Moreover in 1986, the American Society of Magazine Publishers bestowed its Innovation in Pictures award to Kristof, alongside with explorer Bob Ballard, for their coverage of the Huge shipwreck discovery.

With sad hearts, we name consideration to the passing of Dr. Emory Kristof. pic.twitter.com/qImZVfNg9X

— Beneath The Sea (@BeneathTheSea) February 8, 2023

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John Liang is the News Editor at DeeperBlue.com. He first purchased the diving bug whereas in High College in Cairo, Egypt, where he earned his PADI Birth Water Diver certification within the Pink Sea off the Sinai Peninsula. Since then, John has dived in a volcanic lake in Guatemala, amongst white-tipped sharks off the Pacific Cruise of Costa Rica, and numerous areas including a pool in Las Vegas helping to interrupt the arena file for a truly fundamental underwater press convention.