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With a little over 3,000 regular inhabitants, the island of Fernando de Noronha ... In what is referred to as "diving baptism" (R$ 570 [US$ 152] or R$ 620 [US$ 165] ...

One typical day in Fernando de Noronha, I went snorkeling with scientists from a Brazilian conservation agency. A dozen green turtles cruised along beside us, unfazed. A researcher dove, nabbed a ...

Made up of one 28.5-sq-km chunk of volcanic rock and 20 smaller islands, this remote archipelago was first discovered in the early 16th Century by the eponymous Portuguese seaman Fernando de Noronha.