Images tagged "chagos"

Blackspotted puffer (Arothron nigropunctatus).
Close-up deatail of the corallites of a Favia colony.
Acropora tables can grow to be many meters in diameter and will often grow over one another in competition for light on the reef.
Acropora tables will continue to grow until they either overgrow each other or until their edges meet, where a competition zone will form.
Glassy calm seas make for happy scientists in the Chagos Archipelago.
Glassy seas make for smooth sailing between survey sites.
Divers Gideon Butler and Lauren Valentino back roll off the Calcutta.
The Golden Shadow is the gold at the end of the rainbow.
White tip reef shark (Triaenodon obesus).
A noduled sea star (Fromia nodosa) sits atop a Porites colony.
A pair of circular spadefish (Platax orbicularis) join us for a safety stop.
Black saddle grouper (Plectropomus laevis).
Day octopus (Octopus cyanea).
Dorid nudibranch.
Foursaddle grouper (Epinephelus spilotoceps).
Red snapper (Lutjanus bohar).
The view of the Golden Shadow from Danger Island.
Think before you throw your rubbish away! You never know where it might end up.
Two blue knee hermit crabs (Dardanus guttatus) perch atop a Pocillopora colony.
A red snapper (Lutjanus bohar) comes in for a close-up!

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