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  • Coral reef with lettuce coral and school of damselfish and anthias.  Somosomo Strait, Rainbow Reef, Fiji.
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  • Fiji reef view with coral diversity and Anthias school.  Primarily Lyretail Anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis)     Vatu-i-ra, Fiji.  Oct 03.
    CR70-19.jpg
  • Very low tide reveals the coral reef from above the surface. Max Ammer and Gerry Allen enter the lagoon at Goh Island on an exploratory dive..
    R4-070417-381.jpg
  • Rich soft coral and sea fan covered reefs team with fish life..Misool Island vicinity, near the smaller island of Wagmab.
    R4-070422-087.jpg
  • A diver inspects a soft coral growing on a fallen tree trunk.  The passage between Waigeo and Gam Islands.  This unique area is protected from waves but experiences high currents which allows soft corals to flourish just below the surface.
    R4-070504-242.jpg
  • A diver inspects a soft coral growing on a fallen tree trunk.  The passage between Waigeo and Gam Islands.  This unique area is protected from waves but experiences high currents which allows soft corals to flourish just below the surface.
    R4-070504-242 - Version 3.jpg
  • Diver Zafer Kizilkaya explores a passage between Gam and Waigeo Islands rich with soft coral growth.  Raja Ampat Islands, Indonesia.
    R4-070504-162.jpg
  • A rich coral reef covered in soft corals, crinoids, and tunicates.
    R4-070419-313.jpg
  • Table corals and staghorn corals with schools of damselfish in Raja Ampat, Indonesia.  A healthy hard coral reef
    R4-070511-085.jpg
  • Very low tide reveals the coral reef from above the surface..Exploratory dive trip with Max Amar, Gerry and Mark Allen.
    R4-070417-346.jpg
  • A school of fusiliers crosses above a massive school of snappers over a coral reef in the Raja Ampat Islands, Indonesia.
    R4-070510-424.jpg
  • Tassled Wobbegong Shark (Eucrossorhinus dasypogon) lying in wait on top of a plate coral...Vicinity of Gam Island.
    R4-070511-079.jpg
  • Exposed coral by a dock.
    R4-070420-176.jpg
  • Anthiases swimming over a reef  covered in sea fans and soft corals. Primarily Lyretail Anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis)   .Vatu-i-Ra, Fiji.  Note many orange colored females, and scattered pink colored males.
    CR65-25.jpg
  • Anthiases swimming over a reef  covered in sea fans and soft corals. Primarily Lyretail Anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis)   .Vatu-i-Ra, Fiji
    CR65-23.jpg
  • Anthias and hard corals on a Fiji reef.  Primarily Lyretail Anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis)..Vatu-i-Ra, Fiji.  Oct 03
    CR63-17.jpg
  • Reef view with hard corals (Acropora sp.) and schools of Slender Anthias (Luzonichthys waitei) and Lyretail Anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) hovering over the reef.  All these fish can find hiding places on the reef if a predator comes by..Vatu-i-Ra, Fiji.
    FR92-07.jpg
  • Healthy reef of hard corals just under the surface of the Great Astrolabe Reef, Kadavu Island, Fiji.
    FR126-05.jpg
  • Anthiases swimming over a reef  covered in sea fans and soft corals. Primarily Lyretail Anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis)   .Vatu-i-Ra, Fiji
    CR65-23.jpg
  • Anthiases swimming over a reef  covered in soft corals and a yellow crinoid feather star. Primarily Lyretail Anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis)   .Vatu-i-Ra, Fiji
    CR67-18.jpg
  • Anthiases swimming over a reef  covered in sea fans and soft corals. Primarily Lyretail Anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis)   .Vatu-i-Ra, Fiji.  Note many orange colored females, and scattered pink colored males.
    CR65-25.jpg
  • Anthias and hard corals on a Fiji reef.  Primarily Lyretail Anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis)..Vatu-i-Ra, Fiji.  Oct 03
    CR63-17.jpg
  • Anthiases swimming around an outcrop covered in multi colored soft corals. Primarily Slender Anthias (Luzonichthys waitei) and Lyretail Anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) .Namena Island, Fiji.  Oct 03
    CR49-30.jpg
  • Soft corals, sea fans and sponges flourish on this healthy reef.  A jack cruises the reef hunting...Misool Island vicinity.  Near smaller island of Fiabacet.
    R4-070423-558.jpg
  • Soft corals, sea fans and sponges flourish on this healthy reef.  .Misool Island vicinity.  Near smaller island of Fiabacet.
    R4-070423-566.jpg
  • Reef wall in Raja Ampat Island, Indonesia, with school of silversides and soft corals.
    R4-070413-044.jpg
  • Late afternoon reef scene with schools of fusiliers and snappers settling closer to the reef.  Barracudas lurk.   The sheer biomass of fish on this reef is remarkable...Vicinity of Gam Island.
    R4-070509-255.jpg
  • Corals cover the bottom beneath a limestone outcrop island in the Raja Ampat Islands, Indonesia.  Wrasses and damselfish hover over the reef.
    R4-070413-126.jpg
  • Two species of sweetlips hover in front of a sea fan an other corals on a reef outcrop...Misool Island vicinity.  Near smaller island of Fiabacet.
    R4-070423-506.jpg
  • Reef view with Blue-spotted Groupers and other fish, soft and hard corals...Vicinity of Gam Island.
    R4-070511-039.jpg
  • Corals cover the bottom beneath a limestone outcrop island in the Raja Ampat Islands, Indonesia.  Wrasses and damselfish hover over the reef.
    R4-070413-115.jpg
  • The passage between Waigeo and Gam Islands.  This unique area is protected from waves but experiences high currents which allows soft corals to flourish just below the surface.
    R4-070504-358.jpg
  • The passage between Waigeo and Gam Islands.  This unique area is protected from waves but experiences high currents which allows soft corals to flourish just below the surface.
    R4-070504-258.jpg
  • A forest of soft corals in the shallows of a rocky islet.  Jacks hunting smaller fish...Misool Island vicinity.  Near smaller island of Fiabacet.
    R4-070423-367.jpg
  • Conservation International marine biologist Mark Erdmann capturing a specimen of a new species of damselfish.  Sebakor Bay, Fak Fak Peninsula, Indonesia.
    R4-070426-103.jpg
  • Banded sea krait (Laticauda sp.).
    R4-070413-448.jpg
  • Diving guide Graham Abbott explores an underwater rock wall for unique marine life at the Pisang Islands..Pisang Islands, W of Fak Fak Peninsula.
    R4-070425-495.jpg
  • A group of sergeant major fish school around a cabbage coral.
    Sergeant Major Fish and Cabbage Cora...jpg
  • Fiji reef view with coral diversity and Anthias school.  Primarily Lyretail Anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis)     Vatu-i-ra, Fiji.  Oct 03.
    CR70-19.jpg
  • A coral reef with a variety of soft and hard corals and anthias and golden damselfish.  Vatu-i-Ra Channel, Fiji.
    MM7059_0030.jpg
  • Split level  over/under view of reefs and islands.<br />
<br />
Canales de Afuera Islands<br />
Coiba National Park<br />
Panama
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  • Split level  over/under view of reefs and islands.<br />
<br />
Canales de Afuera Islands<br />
Coiba National Park<br />
Panama
    150902_03666.jpg
  • A reef teeming with fish, soft corals and other marine life.
    Namena Island Reef.jpg
  • Healthy reef of hard corals just under the surface of the Great Astrolabe Reef, Kadavu Island, Fiji.  Kadavu Island visible in this split level, over/underwater view.
    MM7059_0006.jpg
  • A coral reef in Fiji teaming with Anthias and other small fish.  Compare with shot FR57-06c taken a few seconds apart - all these fish instantly disappear into hiding places in  the reef when predatory jacks swim by in hunting mode.
    FR57-09c.jpg
  • A coral reef in Fiji that was teaming with Anthias and other small fish a few seconds ago looks barren as marauding Jacks dart past.  Compare with shot FR57-09c taken a few seconds apart - all these fish instantly disappear into hiding places in  the reef when predatory Jacks swim by in hunting mode.
    FR57-06c.jpg
  • A school of fish swim over a reef of cabbage coral.
    Cabbage Coral Reef.jpg
  • A school of anthias swimming near a reef wall of soft coral.
    Anthias school at soft coral.jpg
  • A blenny fish and a coral hermit crab peer out of holes in a coral.
    Blenny Fish and Coral Hermit Crab.jpg
  • A longnose hawkfish, Oxycirrhites typus, resting in a soft coral.
    Longnose Hawkfish in Soft Coral.jpg
  • Juvenile blue damselfish sheltering in an acropora coral.
    Blue Damselfish on Acropora Coral.jpg
  • A goby rests on a wire coral which has most of its polyps extended.  This species of goby often lives on wire corals.
    Goby on Wire Coral.jpg
  • A goby rests on a wire coral which has most of its polyps extended.  This species of goby often lives on wire corals.
    Goby on Wire Coral.jpg
  • A golden damselfish against a background of red coral and crinoids.
    Golden Damselfish With Red Coral.jpg
  • A golden damselfish against a background of red coral and crinoids.
    Golden Damselfish With Red Coral.jpg
  • A well camouflaged goby (Bryaninops sp.) rests on a red gorgonian coral.
    Goby on Red Gorgonian Coral.jpg
  • A well camouflaged goby (Bryaninops sp.) rests on a red gorgonian coral.
    Goby on Red Gorgonian Coral.jpg
  • A recently bleached table coral on a reef in Fiji.  Other corals in the area have not been bleached (ie. retained their algae), so this was a selective bleaching event.
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  • Bleached staghorn and other corals on a shallow reef in the Fiji Island.  Note that the white areas are bleached (have lost their algae), but brown areas have retained their algae.  Reefs can recover from this type of partial bleaching and this one did.
    MM7059_0022.jpg
  • A reef crab, Pseudoliomora sp.,  nestled in an antler coral.
    Reef Crab.jpg
  • A recently bleached staghorn coral.
    PI128-04c.jpg
  • A blue and yellow damselfish in a gorgonian coral.
    MM7059_52.jpg
  • Shrimp on a tubasraea coral.
    MM7059_0020.jpg
  • A steephead parrotfish (Scarus microrhinos) nibbling on algae encrusted coral.
    MM7059_0017.jpg
  • Triplefin fish resting on a hard coral
    MM7059_0036.jpg
  • A red-margined wrasse (Cirrhilabrus rubrimarginatus) in a soft coral's polyps.
    MM7059_0053.jpg
  • A camouflaged candy crab, Hoplophyrs oatesii, on a soft coral.
    MM7059_0055.jpg
  • A longnose hawkfish (Oxycirrhites typus) among the branches of a sea fan coral.
    Longnose Hawkfish in Sea Fan.jpg
  • A flame hawkfish peers from a coral hiding place.
    Flame Hawkfish.jpg
  • A Christmas tree worm living on a coral.
    Christmas Tree Worm.jpg
  • A Harlequin Ghost Pipefish hides in a clump of whip coral, very well camouflaged.
    MM7059_0058.jpg
  • A camouflaged candy crab, Hoplophyrs oatesii, on a soft coral.
    Candy Crab.jpg
  • A close view of the face of a scorpionfish blending in with a leather coral.
    Scorpionfish.jpg
  • Well-camouflaged wire coral shrimp graze and hide on their host.
    MM7059_0033.jpg
  • Anthias school and soft corals.
    MM7059_0002.jpg
  • Pacific Creolefish (Paranthias colonus) in foreground, King Angelfish (Holacanthus passer) in upper right, and other fish species crowd the rich reef on a rich seamount.<br />
<br />
Coiba Island<br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
<br />
"Twin Peaks" dive site
    150312_02375.jpg
  • Pacific Spadefish (Chaetodipterus zonatus) school over a rich reef covered in sea fans.<br />
<br />
Contreras Islands<br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
<br />
"The Fridge" dive site
    150827_00370.jpg
  • Pacific Spadefish (Chaetodipterus zonatus) pass over a reef with many sea fans.<br />
<br />
Contreras Islands<br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
<br />
"The Fridge" dive site
    150827_00416.jpg
  • Whitetip Reef Shark (Triaenodon obesus) on a rocky seamount in Coiba NP.<br />
<br />
Contreras Islands, N of Brancanco Isl.<br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
<br />
"Roller Coaster" dive site
    150309_01418.jpg
  • Seamount with schooling jacks and Whitetip Reef Shark (Triaenodon obesus)<br />
Jacks are scraping themselves on the shark's skin<br />
<br />
Contreras Islands, N of Brancanco Isl.<br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
<br />
"Roller Coaster" dive site
    150309_01329.jpg
  • School of Pacific Spadefish (Chaetodipterus zonatus) swim over the reef on a seamount.<br />
Millepora coral is bleaching at the tips.<br />
<br />
Contreras Islands<br />
Coiba National Park<br />
Panama<br />
<br />
The Fridge dive site
    150830_02067.jpg
  • Blue Coral (Distichopora robusta) growing on submarine rock outcrops at approx 15-20 M depth off the SW corner of Jicarita Island.<br />
This unique coral species was first discovered here at this location, and is only known from small areas of Coiba National Park and some nearby sites in the Gulf of Chiriqui.  First scientifically described in 2004.  Diver Kevan Mantell, who was the person who first brought the unique corals to scientific attention, swims through the landscape of underwater pinnacles.<br />
<br />
Sponges and sea fans grow among the Distichopora corals.<br />
<br />
<br />
Jicarita Island, <br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
<br />
"Coral Wall" dive site<br />
<br />
<br />
original description of the coral:<br />
 Lindner, A., Cairns S.D., Guzman .M., 2004. Distichopora robusta sp. nov., the first shallow-water stylasterid (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Stylasteridae) from the tropical eastern Pacific. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 84 5: 943-947.<br />
<br />
Jicarita Island, <br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
<br />
"Coral Wall" dive site<br />
<br />
<br />
original description of the coral:<br />
 Lindner, A., Cairns S.D., Guzman .M., 2004. Distichopora robusta sp. nov., the first shallow-water stylasterid (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Stylasteridae) from the tropical eastern Pacific. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 84 5: 943-947.
    150315_03623.jpg
  • School of Pacific Spadefish (Chaetodipterus zonatus) swim over the reef on a seamount.<br />
Millepora coral is bleaching at the tips.<br />
<br />
Contreras Islands<br />
Coiba National Park<br />
Panama<br />
<br />
The Fridge dive site
    150830_02073.jpg
  • Cortez Sea-chub (Kyphosus elegans) school swim just below the surface near a coral reef in an over/under, split-level view of the island and underwater.<br />
<br />
Canales de Afuera Islands <br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean
    150313_03163.jpg
  • A seamount rich in sea fans and soft corals and teaming with fish life includeing Scissortail Chromis (Chromis atrilobata), Pacific Creolefish (Paranthias colonus), King Angelfish (Holacanthus passer), snapper species, and others.<br />
<br />
Coiba Island<br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
<br />
"Twin Peaks" dive site
    150312_02438.jpg
  • Schools of Pacific Spadefish (Chaetodipterus zonatus) and Bluestriped Sea-chub (Sectator ocyurus) crossing eachother<br />
<br />
Contreras Islands<br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
<br />
La Ballena dive site
    150827_00693.jpg
  • Pacific Spadefish (Chaetodipterus zonatus)<br />
<br />
Contreras Islands<br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
<br />
La Ballena dive site
    150827_00624.jpg
  • Pacific Spadefish (Chaetodipterus zonatus)<br />
<br />
Contreras Islands<br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
<br />
La Ballena dive site
    150827_00594.jpg
  • Blue Coral (Distichopora robusta) growing on submarine rock outcrops at approx 15-20 M depth off the SW corner of Jicarita Island.<br />
This unique coral species was first discovered here at this location, and is only known from small areas of Coiba National Park and some nearby sites in the Gulf of Chiriqui.  First scientifically described in 2004.<br />
<br />
Jicarita Island, <br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
<br />
"Coral Wall" dive site<br />
<br />
<br />
original description of the coral:<br />
 Lindner, A., Cairns S.D., Guzman .M., 2004. Distichopora robusta sp. nov., the first shallow-water stylasterid (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Stylasteridae) from the tropical eastern Pacific. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 84 5: 943-947.
    150315_03649.jpg
  • Tufted Blenny (Mccoskerichthys sandae) living in a hole in a coral head.<br />
<br />
Endemic to Costa Rica and Western Panama.  Example of regional endemic, special to Eastern Tropical Pacific.<br />
<br />
Canales de Afuera Island<br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
<br />
"Wahoo" dive site
    150314_03540.jpg
  • Schools of Pacific Spadefish (Chaetodipterus zonatus) and Bluestriped Sea-chub (Sectator ocyurus) crossing eachother<br />
<br />
Contreras Islands<br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
<br />
La Ballena dive site
    150827_00666.jpg
  • Pacific Spadefish (Chaetodipterus zonatus)<br />
<br />
Contreras Islands<br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
<br />
La Ballena dive site
    150827_00559.jpg
  • Blue Coral (Distichopora robusta) growing on submarine rock outcrops at approx 15-20 M depth off the SW corner of Jicarita Island.<br />
This unique coral species was first discovered here at this location, and is only known from small areas of Coiba National Park and some nearby sites in the Gulf of Chiriqui.  First scientifically described in 2004.<br />
<br />
Jicarita Island, <br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
<br />
"Coral Wall" dive site<br />
<br />
<br />
original description of the coral:<br />
 Lindner, A., Cairns S.D., Guzman .M., 2004. Distichopora robusta sp. nov., the first shallow-water stylasterid (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Stylasteridae) from the tropical eastern Pacific. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 84 5: 943-947.
    150315_03683.jpg
  • Hancock's Blenny (Acanthemblemaria hancocki)<br />
Example of regional endemic, special to Eastern Tropical Pacific.<br />
<br />
Contreras Islands, Isla Pajaro<br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
<br />
"Isla Pajaro" dive site
    150309_01268.jpg
  • Rich growth of sea fans and soft corals cover the steep slopes in an area of high current and surge which bringing rich nutrients to these filter feeders.  Scores of Scissortail Chromis (Chromis atrilobata) and other fish feed on plankton.<br />
<br />
 <br />
Coiba Island, <br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
<br />
'Hatchet Rock" dive siter
    150315_03873.jpg
  • Rich growth of sea fans and soft corals cover the steep slopes of a very high current and surge area.  The currents bring rich nutrients to these filter feeders.<br />
<br />
 <br />
Coiba Island, <br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
<br />
'Hatchet Rock" dive siter
    150315_03992.jpg
  • Pacific Seahorse (Hippocampus ingens)<br />
<br />
Rancheria Island<br />
Coiba National Park<br />
Panama<br />
<br />
Iglesias Dive Site
    150905_05351.jpg
  • Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) being cleaned by Chancho Surgeonfish (Prionurus laticlavius)<br />
<br />
Isla Canales de Afuera<br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
<br />
"Wahoo" dive site
    150316_04757.jpg
  • A rocky seamount rising toward the surface with circling fish and rich coral and sponge growth.<br />
<br />
Coiba Island, <br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
<br />
"Siren's Point" dive site
    150314_03420.jpg
  • A rocky seamount rising toward the surface with circling fish and rich coral and sponge growth.<br />
<br />
Coiba Island, <br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
<br />
"Siren's Point" dive site
    150314_03343.jpg
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