Great Barrier Reef Album

Table acroporid which fell and is now putting out reoriented growth perpindicular to the original plane.
Brightly colored sea fans growing perpendicular to the usual flow of current to facilitate filter feeding.
Fish survey team of Badi Samaniego and Valeriya Komyakova.
Geometric pattern of Favia coral polyps.
Hancock\'s Flatworm (Pseudobiceros hancockanus)
Large Dendronephthya soft coral pumped full of water to extend polyps allowing it to feed in the current.
Large multi-tiered colony of branching Acropora coral.
Abby Cannon catching 40 winks on the aft deck of the Shadow while waiting to load the dive boats for our morning dives.
\"Artist\'s pallete\" of colorful corals.
Blenny peeking out from inside its tube home in a coral.
Button Coral (Cynarina lacrymalis)
Close-up of the tentacles of a Euphyllia coral.
Giant Moray (Gymnothorax javanicus)
Gloomy Tambja (Tamja morosa) nudibranch
Many-spotted Sweetlip (Plectorhinchus chaetodontoides) juvenile.
Miracle Triplefin (Enneapterygius mirabilis)
Colorful and brightly marked Netted Ceratosoma (Ceratosoma sinuatum) nudibranch.
Pseudotentacles of the Fingerprint Bubble Coral (Plerogyra sinuosa).
Shallow water reefscape with many colors of branching and table acroporids.
Silver Sweetlips (Diagramma pictum)
Turban Shell (Turbo sp.) with
Very large Annella reticulata pink sea fan.
Cascading plates of Leptoseris coral.
Overlapping shingles of Pachyseris coral.
Reticulata halgerda nudibranch.
Anderson Mayfield photographing the abundance of corals in the shallows.
Scorpionfish (Scorpaenopsis sp.)
Shallow water reef top covered in various colors of table and branching thickets of Acropora coral.
Large colony of Tubastrea micrantha.
Cluster of corals in the shallows including upright pillars of Isopora.
Cornetfish (Fistularia commersonii)
Pair of Bigeye Trevally (Caranx sexfasciatus) in front of large school of snappers.
Red variation of Steephead Parrotfish (Chlorurus microrhinos).
Badi Samaniego looking over his notes on the way back to the dive boat.
Blackfin Barracuda (Sphyraena qenie) with interesting black and white markings on tail.
Bright fluorescent red Acropora millepora coral.
Fluted Giant Clam (Tridacna squamosa)
Gray Reef Shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) making a close pass to investigate the divers.
Gray Reef Shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) eyeing the benthic transect line along the sloping reef.
Large spherical Platygyra coral.

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