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The Riviera Maya lies along Mexico's Caribbean coast on the Yucatán Peninsula. The coral rock that composes the Caribbean Sea bed has been pounded by waves which have eroded the reef into beautiful tide pools inhabited by marine animals such as sea urchins, sea cucumbers, barnacles, and anemones.
During colonial times the islands in the Bay of Honduras were frequently occupied by European armies, mostly by Britain and Spain. The British occupied the Bay Islands between 1550 and 1700 and English is the first language of native islanders.
Roatán has become an important tourism destination in Honduras. The entire 33-mile island is surrounded by a shallow reef, an underwater garden of coral and sponges teeming with marine life. It is best known as a premier scuba-diving destination, but is also known for dense jungles, retro-Caribbean towns, beach-shack menus and authentic island charm
A juvenile on is feeding in the Coralreef, after a wile he change the shape and the colors.
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Roatán Island, once the domain of Spanish conquistadors and British pirates, lies in the Caribbean at the southernmost tip of the 700-mile-long Mesoamerican Reef, the second largest barrier reef in the world after Australia's Great Barrier Reef. It's a small, narrow island, about 45 miles long and barely 5 miles wide at its widest.
West Bay is on the west side of the island and attracts scuba divers and snorkelers from all over the world. The water of West Bay Beach boasts excellent visibility and calm conditions making it ideal for freediving. Each May, West Bay Beach hosts an international freediving competition, bringing together the world’s most competitive divers for the Caribbean Cup.
Inaladelan Island, more popularly known as German Island, and its surrounding turquoise waters at Port Barton, Palawan, Philippines. There's plenty of corals and colorful marine life around the island. This view is from an area - known as the Turtle Spot - where green turtles may be observed feeding underwater. The snorkeling in Port Barton is among the best we've ever done - in many cases better even than the more popular snorkeling spots in Coron and El Nido. The locals here have done an incredible job of preserving the coral reefs.
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"Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons."
Art Hirschfeld
Painting this Blue Spotted Coral Reef fish was such a pleasure. I found myself smiling as it found its way onto the watercolor paper.
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A mixed school of bluestriped grunts, Haemulon sciurus, and yellow goatfish, Mulloidicthys martinicus, flow gracefully among the knobs and crevices of a coral reef.
Turneffe Atoll, Belize, Caribbean Sea
". . . one must accept the security of the winged life, of ebb and flow, of intermittency." - from Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Blackspot snapper-Vivaneau encrier (Lutjanus ehrenbergii), Elphinstone reef, red sea. 🐠 🌊 🌏
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A spotted scorpionfish, Scorpaena plumieri, sits motionless on a knob of coral, watching divers go past.
This fish develops many intricate and elaborate excrescences and color patterns that break up the normal lines of a fish. Take a look at higher resolution.
I am indebted to my fellow divers who find this and other camouflaged residents of the reef--I can't find them myself, but my friends (Mike, Ed, Tina, Markus) wait for me to catch up and point out the treasures.
This crab was not delighted that its lair had been found--it came out, waiving its claws and doing everything it could to appear threatening and inhospitable.
A peacock flounder, Bothus lunatus, lies quietly on the bottom, hoping those noisy, clumsy scuba divers will not notice it.
This fish starts out like most other fish, bilaterally symmetric. But then one eye migrates to join the other eye on one side of the body. The eyes are pronounced in the body that is trying to look flat.
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Mike Grant and I have been going on scuba diving trips for 23 years. A few years ago some fellow divers gave us the nicknames Point and Shoot. Mike has sharp eyes and he Points when he sees something worthy of capture, and I follow his Point to Shoot. It works well.
Here, he had been patiently waiting, I saw the Point and jockeyed around to get the Shoot.
This spotted moray was minding its own business--it will venture out of its lair in the dark to hunt for crabs, shrimp and small fish.
Several coils are visible, but not its entire length, maybe only half its length.
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I had to move to a new sim cause of SL reasons, but I rebuilt bigger & better, so come explore. Swim off our nearly safe beach! Get yelled at by the cranky boatyard owner! Go diving on the almost world famous Rackham's Reef, SL's most believable underwater space. Now with more coral, more fish & more realism!
Underwater photography of a colorful interaction between coral reef and fish. Shot with HTC RE from Dahab's blue hole.
An artistic high angle framing of a colorful reef. Thanks to the transparency of water and pleasing composition or the place. Shot in front of Tiran island Sharm El Sheikh.
The first photo today showed the world above the water's surface. For this one, we've dived back into the magical world of the coral reef.
We're at a depth of somewhere between 30 and 40 meters. And here I managed to photograph an animal that populated the oceans even in the time of the dinosaurs and, due to its perfection, has barely changed since then: a stingray.
This family evolved parallel to sharks around 250 million years ago and is therefore closely related to them. Since then, over 100 different species have evolved, adapted to their respective habitats. Unfortunately, I can't name which species this specimen belongs to.
Even though stingrays don't attack humans, accidents do occur from time to time in which someone gets too close to the animals, and they then use their tails, equipped with poisonous spines, like a whip in self-defense.
The famous Australian documentary filmmaker Steve Irwine (the Crocodile Hunter) was killed in such an incident because the stinger pierced his heart through his ribcage.
Das erste Foto von heute zeigte die Welt oberhab der Wasseroberfläche. Für dieses hier sind wir wieder in die magische Welt des Korallenriffs hinabgetaucht.
Wir befinden uns in einer Tiefe irgendwo zwischen 30 und 40 Metern. Und hier ist es mir gelungen ein Tier zu fotografieren, was auch schon zu Zeiten der Dinosaurier die Meere bevölkerte und sich auf Grund seiner Perfektion seit dem kaum verändern musste, einen Rochen.
Diese Familie entwickelte sich von ca. 250 millionen Jahren parallel zu den Haien und ist darum auch nah mit ihnen verwandt. Seit dem haben sich, angepasst an Ihren jeweiligen Lebensraum, über 100 verschiedene Arten herausgebildet. Zu welcher Art dieses Exemplar gehört, kann ich leider nicht benennen.
Auch wenn Stachelrochen keine Menschen angreifen, so kommt es doch immer wieder zu Unfällen bei denen jemand den Tieren zu nahe kommt und diese dann zur Verteidigung Ihren mit giftigen Stacheln ausgestatteten Schwanz wie eine Peitsche einsetzen.
Der berühmte australische Dokumentarfilmer Steve Irwine (the Crocodile Hunter) wurde bei so einem Zwischenfall getötet, da der Stachel ihn durch den Brustkorb hindurch ins Herz traf.
We loved Tonga, especially its dramatic coasts. This was recorded during an exploration of the east coast of 'Eua (Island), a coast that sits on the edge of the Australia Plate with the Tonga Trench dropping away to a great depth. This means that the free waves from 1000s km of fetch arrive with uninterrupted power and slam into the coast releasing all their energy as they impact the coast. It's awesome to watch. This image was taken as the trough between the big waves exposed the underlying fringe of coral!