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While diving off the southern coast of Cuba, in an untouched undersea garden, Anderson Cooper did a stand-up that he said may be his best ever. It was for the 2011 report "The Gardens of the Queen." Marine biologists describe this region as a kind of "underwater Eden," a coral reef largely untouched by humans. Cooper went scuba diving with marine biologist David Guggenheim, dodging giant groupers and sharks while exploring the increasingly rare oasis. While shooting his stand-up, Cooper said: "There was an enormous grouper, like, a 300-pound or 400-pound grouper that passed by. And then a shark comes by, and I remember while I was doing it, I was just thinking, like, ‘Don't mess this up, because this is this incredible confluence of these majestic sea creatures, and you are never going to be able to replicate this.’” “It remains, to this day, one of my favorite on-camera things that I've done,” said Cooper.

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