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Two-banded Anemonefish (Amphiprion bicinctus).

Blacktail Reef Shark (Carcharhinus wheeleri).

Blacktail Reef Shark (Carcharhinus wheeleri).

Cushion Stars (Culcita sp.) with an interesting tesselated and spotted pattern.

Giant Moray (Gymnothorax javanicus) is not shy about having its photo taken.

Anderson Mayfield interrupted by a Giant Moray (Gymnothorax javanicus) while sampling a Seriatopora coral.

Sea star (Linckia laevigata).

Small Tawny Nurse Shark (Nebrius ferrugineus) resting under an overhang.

Striped Large-eye Bream (Gnathodentex aureolineatus).

Fluted Giant Clam (Tridacna squammosa) with electric blue striped mantle.

Panoramic sunset over the Three Brothers Islands on the western edge of the Great Chagos Bank.

Black-spotted Egg Cowrie (Calpurnus verrucosus) on Lobophytum leather coral.

Black-spotted Egg Cowrie (Calpurnus verrucosus).

Cake Urchin (Tripneustes gratilla).

Hawksbill Turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) sleeping under a ledge during a morning dive.

Ceiling of an overhanging ledge is a dazzling coloful display of sponges, tunicates, bryozoans and cup corals.

School of Whitetip Soldierfish (Myripristis vittata) orient themselves to the roof of an overhanging ledge.

With a lead-core transect line and a PVC meter stick, Kristin Stolberg surveys corals on a colorful section of a shallow reef under glassy calm seas.

Anderson Mayfield wakes up with a cup of coffee during a long transit out to our first dive of the day.

Tiny juvenile Crown-ot-thorns Sea Star (Acanthaster planci).

Variable Thorny Oyster (Spondylus varians) which like to attach to ledge overhangs, have a colorful mantle lined with hundreds of eye spots and a shell often overgrown with other organisms.

Foliose plates of Echinopora plate coral cascade down the reef slope.

Granular Sea Star (Choriaster granulatus).

Noduled Sea Star (Fromia nodosa).

Polarized school of Golden Sweeper (Parapriacanthus ransonneti).

A distinctive feature of the Slender Lizardfish (Saurida gracilis) is the lined pattern along the jaws which displays the teeth even when the mouth is closed.

View above and below the water line at the end of a morning survey dive off South Brother Island along the western edge of the Great Chagos Bank.

Blacktail Reef Shark (Carcharhinus wheeleri) considered by some scientists to be the same as the Grey Reef Shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) but has a white-tipped dorsal fin (among other differences).

Cluster of 13 Magnificent Anemones (Heteractis magnifica) with only a single pair of anemonefish claiming the lot.

Looking up at the clouds through the glassy calm surface of the water during a 15 ft. safety stop at the end of a survey dive.

Powderblue Surgeonfish (Acanthurus leucosternon).

Two-band Anemonefish (Amphiprion bicinctus) swims among the various anemones in this cluster.

Giant Spider Conch (Lambis truncata) stares out from within its shell.

Moorish Idol (Zanclus cornutus).

Checkerboard wrasse (Halichoeres hortulanus) eating a small crab it just pulled from the rubble.

Devil Scorpionfish (Scorpaenopsis diabolus) blends in amazingly well with the pink Crustose Coraline Algae.

School of Yellowmask Surgeonfish (Acanthurus mata) with one pale individual which turned dark a moment after this photo.

Anderson Mayfield during a safety stop at the end of a dive under the ceiling of a glassy calm sea.

$The tiny Willey\'s Halgerda nudibranch (Halgerda willeyi) are regularly seen in the Chagos Archipelago.$

$Two-band Anemonefish (Amphiprion bicinctus) caught for a split second staring at its reflection in the camera\'s dome port.$

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Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation

The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is dedicated to the conservation and restoration of living oceans and pledges to champion their preservation through research, education and a commitment to Science Without Borders.^®

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