Sentences with phrase «currents near the reefs»

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Researchers compared simulations of current and future sea level and reef conditions at four sites with differing wave energy near the French Polynesian islands of Moorea and Tahiti.

Like many dive sites near Vatu - I - Ra, there are many different types of colourful soft corals and particularly colourful reef fish of all sizes, from swarms of anthias, to currents of fusiliers streaming up and down the reef wall.

our dive master warned us about the down current and was always asking us to stay near the reef.

Elsewhere, in the many sheltered bays, especially Belongas Bay and up near Kuta the diving varies according to site and offers coral gardens, walls and caves where you can see anything from the big stuff taking shelter from the current, through the usual mid-sized reef fish down to sea snakes and pygmy seahorses and nudis.

While temperatures on offshore reef environments have been > 17 - 18 deg C (likely due to oceanic influence from the Florida Current), shallow - water and nearshore environments have fallen well below 14 deg C (e.g., 10 - 11 deg C near Long Key).