Sentences with phrase «as soft corals»

The region is known as the soft coral capital of the world, and you will be sure to see many different species of bright coral, especially off the coast of Taveuni and the Koro sea where nutrient - rich waters are perfect for marine life.

Known as the soft coral capital, the brilliant colors on display will dazzle even the most experienced divers and photographers.

Black Coral: Antipatharia species (colour black with small yellow polyps) Although hard Black Coral is classified as a soft coral.

Fiji is often referred to as the soft coral capital of the world, with over 300 islands surrounded by waters of rich and diverse ecosystems.

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The headset comes in three new colors — fog, charcoal, and coral, the same as the Google Home Mini — and though it's still made with a «soft, breathable» fabric, it looks like a slightly different material than on last year's Daydream View.

In the longer term, interactions among reef organisms would lead to dominance by other groups, including sponges and soft corals known as gorgonians.

Furthermore, at least one nonmarine organism has already been implicated: aspergillus, a soil fungus that afflicts soft corals known as sea fans.

As shown here, there is extensive bleaching of hard and soft corals at Moore Reef following sustained heat stress in March 2017 on Great Barrier Reef.

Spicules are the calcareous remains of tiny, soft - bodied marine invertebrates such as sea fans and sea whips (corals), sea cucumbers and sponges.

This gorgeously soft coral was shot in Papua New Guinea, part of a vast region known as the Coral Triangle, which encompasses the waters of Indonesia and the Philippines and extends as far as the Solomon Islcoral was shot in Papua New Guinea, part of a vast region known as the Coral Triangle, which encompasses the waters of Indonesia and the Philippines and extends as far as the Solomon IslCoral Triangle, which encompasses the waters of Indonesia and the Philippines and extends as far as the Solomon Islands.

A colony of the soft coral known as the «bent sea rod» stands bleached on a reef off of Islamorada, Florida.

Although often seen as a softer, more pastel shade of pink, coral is actually a pretty vocal and vibrant color.

It is hard to pick a favorite, but I love the soft, peachy - coral color and shape of the Musquee De Provence pumpkin as pictured above in lovely Aix - en - Provence, France.

While some of these are reef safe, others eat such items as sponges, Aiptasia, soft coral and flat worms, and many are poisonous if consumed by other animals.

Explore rich, diverse coral gardens that help form these protective ocean walls, filled with hard and soft corals as well as the reef's most iconic species such as sharks, stingrays, turtles, whales *, groupers and cods, maori wrasse and parrotfish.

The new dive site is nicknamed THREE CORNERS and is a very good dive, the bottom is around 35m and starts out as white sand & rubble, it then turns into really pristine coral wall with lots of sea fans and many whip corals as well as lots of hard & soft corals.

There, I found both hard and soft corals, as well as many small reef fish.

The impressive wall is covered in beautiful hard and soft corals as well as sponges and sea fans.

With these soft corals we often find our macro like Squat lobsters both hairy and common, squat shrimps, translucent anemone shrimp, nudibranchs, orangutan crabs, hermit crabs, porcelain crabs, mantis shrimps and flatworms as well as isopods.

We have a good variety of soft colourful corals around the north Gilis such as anemones, bubble coral (a favorite turtle food), Daisy coral, whip coral, feather stars, sea fans, sea pens, leather coral, sponges, barrel coral and in some spots we get soft coral colonies.

Situated within the Vanua Levu group of Fiji islands and known as «the soft coral capital of the world», Taveuni is a place of big reef fish and incredibly colourful soft corals.

It's also regarded as the «soft coral capital of the world», offering some of the finest diving locations in the Pacific.

True corals have forms with a relatively soft flexible skeleton as well as the very familiar hard corals with a very rigid skeleton.

The resort's two beaches — the smaller West Beach and the larger Family Beach where water - sports are organised — are lovely enough but its worth a visit to the the south coast which has some fantastic stretches of soft coral sand, such as Welches, Maxwell and Dover — all with easy public access.

The dramatic drop - offs have a huge variety of soft and hard corals that offer a home to an abundance of reef fish such as fusiliers, butterflyfish, sweetlips, cardinal fish and damsel fish.

For underwater photographers, the National Park offers unparalleled opportunities to shoot both macro and wide angle underwater photographs of subjects as diverse as nudibranchs, coral gardens, frogfish, soft corals, ornate ghost pipefish, sharks, schooling fish, and a whole lot more!

2 great pinnacles break the surface — excellent dive sites due to the amount of schooling fish as well as the healthy state of the soft corals.

The strait almost single - handedly earns Fiji its title as the «Soft Coral Capital of the World».

A fine site to multi level dive, the selection of soft coral in the deeper section gives way to hard corals as you ascend and in the shallows there are always several turtles totally unfazed by the presence of divers.

These undersea islands are covered in soft tree corals, sea fans and wire corals, as well as, multitudes of colorful tropical fish.

Often these critters take on the same hue as the host soft coral and can be hard to spot.

For the divers, Pemuteran has the Napoleon Reef 1.5 km offshore; the soft coral like flowers blooming, plenty of reef fish such as damsel fish, silver fusilier, blue dancers, snappers, with occasional manta ray.

A fine site for multi level diving, the selection of soft coral in the deeper section gives way to hard corals as you ascend and in the shallows there are always several turtles totally unfazed by the presence of divers.

Many soft corals are home to small creatures such as crabs, shrimp, and gobies who hide among the prickly bushes.

Meno Slope Also on the west side of Gili Meno and only 5 mins away by boat, Meno Slope is totally covered in orange soft corals and is home to plenty of turtles, eels, scorpion fish and is famous for an eagle ray who took up resident there as a baby and is now often spotted cruising around and is not shy of divers.

Turtle Caves have plenty of sea life with hard and soft coral as well as turtles.

Large schools of fish such as trevally and sweetlips can be found along with macro critters, beautiful hard and soft corals and healthy sea fans.

Watch this Krabi diving video with some of the soft coral scenes and local marine life, such as lobsters, seahorses and porcelain crabs, as well as underwater shots from the nearby Kingcruiser Wreck.

With shores washed by currents from the South China Sea, most dives are conducted as drifts, which carry divers along an underwater landscape covered with soft corals and sponges and carved with small drop - offs and canyons.

A steep wall follows the whole coastline, with tons of hard and soft corals coating every inch, as well as countless species calling it home.

The coral reefs around Nusa Lembongan and the other islands are very healthy, with an incredibly diverse variety of creatures offering a mixture of fantastic hard corals, colourful soft corals and a range of critters from macro to pelagics, as well as huge schools of fish with visibility nearly always 20 - 25m.

The South Gili's offer beautiful reefs with a mix of hard and soft coral, great macro life as well as reef fish and turtles.

The boulders also serves as substrate for the soft corals and sea fans found in the area.

Here, walls and reefs are overgrown with forests of multi-hued soft corals, and frequented by pelagics such as mantas, sea turtles and sharks.

Fiji lives up to this reputation as the «Soft Coral Capital of the World», it's famous for the dazzling corals and diverse marine life ranging from barracuda, grouper, wrasse, sharks, mantas and eagle rays.

This oceanic island is surrounded by shear walls of soft coral home to myriad of marine life and attracting large pelagic creatures such as green sea - turtles and immense schools of barracudas.

Though the soft corals and fish diversity are not quite as good as some of the other Andaman Sea destinations in Thailand, you will find fish species here that you won't see in the Similan Islands, such as Napoleon wrasse, yellow - masked angelfish, bumphead parrotfish, tomato anemonefish and barramundi, as well as lots of turtles.

While diving throughout the Turneffe Atoll, you will see a variety of hard and soft corals as well as all of the Caribbean tropicals, eagle rays, sharks, turtles, dolphins, moray eels, and occasionally a whale shark in addition to large schools of permit, horse eye jacks and dog snapper.

Starting at 6m, this lovely reef of beautiful soft corals and thriving hard corals gives us clouds of anthias as well as scorpionfish, moray eels, trumpetfish, puffers, and Giant trevally.

Many unusual species like blue ring octopus, various species of frog fish and as many nudibranches as you want live just below purple soft coral encrusted pilings.