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Deep sea delivery

Merle Lossing is no stranger to travel – in his previous life with UPS, he was on the road pretty much every day. Nothing quite so exotic as his recent trip to Mexico, though, when he came face to face with the marine life of the Archipelago Revillagigedo.

"The Archipelago Revillagigedo is a scattered group of four volcanic islands lying about 300 miles south of Cabo San Lucas and about 700 miles from the west coast of Mexico," he says.

"A magnet for pelagic marine life, sightings of sharks and manta rays swimming with large schools of fish are common."

Among the species Lossing met duri...