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  • A crab crawling on a sea fan.
    Crab on Sea Fan.jpg
  • Anthiases swimming over a reef  covered in sea fans and soft corals. Primarily Lyretail Anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis)   .Vatu-i-Ra, Fiji
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  • Soft corals, sea fans and sponges flourish on this healthy reef.  .Misool Island vicinity.  Near smaller island of Fiabacet.
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  • 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
  • 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
  • Anthiases swimming over a reef  covered in sea fans and soft corals. Primarily Lyretail Anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis)   .Vatu-i-Ra, Fiji
    CR65-23.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
  • A close-up of a Denise's Pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus denise) in a sea fan.  Orange color form...Vicinity of Gam Island.
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  • 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
  • Pygmy Seahorse (Hippocamaus bargibanti) in yellow color phase living in a yellow sea fan.
    R4-070428-385.jpg
  • Denise's Pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus denise) camouflages itself in a sea fan.  Yellow color form..Pisang Islands, W of Fak Fak Peninsula.
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  • 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
  • Denise's Pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus denise) camouflages itself in a sea fan.  Yellow color form.<br />
Pisang Islands, W of Fak Fak Peninsula.
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  • A coral reef with a variety of soft and hard corals and anthias and golden damselfish.  Vatu-i-Ra Channel, Fiji.
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  • A lionfish hovers in a seafan..Misool Island vicinity.  Near smaller island of Fiabacet.
    R4-070423-357.jpg
  • A Lionfish hovers in a seafan in a view looking toward the surface of the water.
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  • A Lionfish hovers in a seafan in a view looking toward the surface of the water.
    R4-070423-158.jpg
  • A diver hovers above a reef in Bali, Indonesia.
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  • 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 />
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Coiba Island, <br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
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'Hatchet Rock" dive siter
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  • Pacific Spadefish (Chaetodipterus zonatus) school over a rich reef covered in sea fans.<br />
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Contreras Islands<br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
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"The Fridge" dive site
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  • 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 />
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Coiba Island, <br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
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'Hatchet Rock" dive siter
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  • 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 />
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Sponges and sea fans grow among the Distichopora corals.<br />
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Jicarita Island, <br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
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"Coral Wall" dive site<br />
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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 />
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Jicarita Island, <br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
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"Coral Wall" dive site<br />
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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.
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  • Seamount covered in diverse sea fans, soft corals, sponges and other invertebrate life.  School of Pacific Spadefish in background.<br />
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Contreras Islands<br />
Coiba National Park<br />
Panama<br />
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Roller Coaster dive site
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  • Seamount covered in diverse sea fans, soft corals, sponges and other invertebrate life.  With schools of snappers above.<br />
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Contreras Islands<br />
Coiba National Park<br />
Panama<br />
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Roller Coaster dive site
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  • 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.<br />
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Coiba Island, <br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
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'Hatchet Rock" dive siter
    150828_01105.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.<br />
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Coiba Island, <br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
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'Hatchet Rock" dive siter
    150828_01042.jpg
  • Lars Abromeit diving on a Coiba seamount covered with sea fans and soft corals and with<br />
Mexican Hogfish (Bodianus diplotaenia) and other fish<br />
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Contreras Islands, N of Brancanco Isl.<br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
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"Roller Coaster" dive site
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  • Lars Abromeit diving on a Coiba seamount covered with sea fans and soft corals and with<br />
Mexican Hogfish (Bodianus diplotaenia) and other fish<br />
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Contreras Islands, N of Brancanco Isl.<br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
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"Roller Coaster" dive site
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  • Pacific Spadefish (Chaetodipterus zonatus) pass over a reef with many sea fans.<br />
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Contreras Islands<br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
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"The Fridge" dive site
    150827_00416.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 />
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Coiba Island<br />
Coiba National Park, Panama<br />
Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean<br />
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"Twin Peaks" dive site
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  • A longnose hawkfish (Oxycirrhites typus) among the branches of a sea fan coral.
    Longnose Hawkfish in Sea Fan.jpg
  • Rich soft coral and sea fan covered reefs team with fish life.<br />
Misool Island vicinity, near the smaller island of Wagmab.
    R4-070422-018 - Version 3.jpg
  • Rich soft coral and sea fan covered reefs team with fish life.<br />
Misool Island vicinity, near the smaller island of Wagmab.
    R4-070422-018.jpg