Sentences with phrase «coral rubble»

Now the entire region is mostly dead coral rubble covered with «slime» as Jeremy and others describe it.

Once descended, simply take your landmark (often the mooring buoy) make your dive, and on the way back, slowly head toward shore while enjoying the shallows where you're likely to find pods of squid and long nose needle fish hovering just below the surface, or the yellow headed jaw fish hiding in the coral rubble.

While large coral heads are sparse here in shallow water, there is a sandy bottom, where many lively yellowhead jawfish poke their heads out of holes in the coral rubble.

You could almost just find a patch in the coral rubble and wait for the fish life to come close to you.

The waves break on reef and coral rubble instead of sand, this can lead to injury in beginners who often fall.

The beach ranges from fully sand to a mixture of coral / sand to largely coral rubble.

Farther seaward, divers reach a sand and coral rubble zone.

Here large heads of common smooth star, smooth and depressed brain corals and yellow porous coral form isolated growths that are surrounded by coral rubble, much of which is coated with red algae.

The coral rubble is part of a gradual transition from coral reef to a broad sand slope.

Around the anchor site a coral rubble apron is forested with soft coral.

These are very common in conch shells, under coral rubble and the like in the reef lagoon.

They also line the entrance to their holes with coral rubble.

Next comes the white line of coral rubble along the reef crest, then the sandy back reef, and, finally, the lagoon: a maze of sand islets, mangrove cays, and sea grass beds.

Retailers can carry black sand, crushed pink coral, coral rubble and numerous grades of aragonite gravel, and to further expand the selection, most can be stocked as «live» items.

These would include items such as lace rock, tufa, limestone, coral rubble, holy rock and marine substrates.

Others may detonate a blast of dynamite to catch fish, leaving behind coral rubble.

To help solve this conundrum, a team led by Richard Aronson of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama decided to sample ancient staghorn coral rubble that was deposited over the past centuries.

In some countries, fishermen use dynamite to catch fish, leaving behind coral rubble.

Not exact matches

The findings suggest many existing coral habitats — particularly those in areas dominated by sand and rubble — may have been created by coralliths.

Coral can be denuded to sand in various ways: (1) through abrasion of rubble, (2) as a by - product of endolithic bioerosion by endolithic sponges, or (3) as an excretory byproduct of urchin or parrotfish bioerosion.

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.

Bumphead parrotfish are vital to the reef building process — as they crush rubble and dead coral into sand.

Birds have played a very important part in the establishment of this beautiful coral cay, a build up of rubble and sediments from thousands of years of wave action surrounding the reefs.

A coral cay is a build up of rubble and sediments from thousands of years of wave action surrounding the reefs.

There's no shortage of life among the simple corals, rubble and trash found along the sea bottom.

Bayu's Place in the Menjangan area of Bali is a rubble, coral, and white sand muck dive site loaded with Pyjama cardinalfish, ghostpipefish, several species of gobies and shrimps, and Mandarinfish (often seen in daylight!)

Among the hard coral, rubble and some rocks that formed an interesting topography, Reef Octopus, Pygmy Squid, nudibranchs, like the Nembrotha, Fimbriated and Yellowmargin Moray Eels were some of the highlights pointed out by our divemasters.

The dive does not cover the whole area but instead concentrates on the sandy / rubble / coral slopes on the western side of this small rocky island.

«My favorite dive site in the Strait is Nudi Falls because it is such a good combination site with a wall, rubble, sandy slope, reef and a deeper area of soft corals which are so beautiful.