World Oceans Day Stamps
Monaco – June 8, 2013
At the occasion of World Oceans Day, a series of four stamps will be issued by the Monaco Stamp Issuing Office (OETP) in collaboration with the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco.
In each of these stamps, freediver Pierre Frolla is diving with a different species of shark. The purpose is to show a peaceful interaction between man and the feared predator. Hence, it is hoped that these stamps will also aid to improve the image of this wrongly maligned predator.
Photographers:
Didier Brandelet (great white shark in the background)
Fred Buyle (top right stamp – Pierre Frolla face to face with a tiger shark – South Africa)
Pascal Kobeh (middle left stamp – Pierre Frolla dancing with a whale-shark – South Africa)
Allan Walker (top left stamp – Pierre Frolla making faces to a black-tip shark – South Africa)
William Winram (bottom left stamp – Pierre Frolla alongside a great white shark – Mexico)
Printing process: Heliogravure
Size of the block: 120 x 100 mm vertical
Size of the stamps: 40,85 x 30 mm horizontal
Quantity of issue: 45’000 blocks