Sentences with phrase «deep reef slopes»

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Non-market supporting services are provided by deep - sea ecosystems in the form of habitat provision, nursery grounds, trophic support, refugia, and biodiversity functions provided by assemblages on seamounts, coral and sponge reefs, banks, canyons, slopes, fjords and other settings (Armstrong et al., 2012; Mengerink et al., 2014; Thurber et al., 2014; Levin and Le Bris, 2015).

Most of the dive sites are pristine coral reefs with colorful soft corals and crinoids, vast staghorn coral fields and huge table corals in the shallow parts, giant elephant ears in the deeper parts, giant sponge barrels along the slopes.

The diving is pretty nice, sloping reefs with healthy soft on the deeper areas and hard corals bommies in the shallows.

Drop in close to the Hole in the Wall and let the current take you deeper along the slope until you reach an area where currents and mother nature has formed three spectacular canyons in the reef.

Snorkeling with manta rays in the rainy season is just magical This is also a good dive site with a sloping reef going to 25 m deep.

The reef in the shallows is not worth to dive, rubble outcrop was seriously damaged by the El - Nino in 1988, but at the steep slope and the deep jagged wall is still in excellent condition, from 15 meters to over 50 meters is charming colourful reef wall.

The reef at this point isn't different than the dive sites on the north shore of Nusa Penida, gradual slope reef to 18 meters then sharper slope to deeper water.

Spotted Ray Channel is a sandy slope located Southwest of the reef slowly going down to 14 m deep.

The topography is quite similar on most dives, as you'd expect on island reefs — a sloping reef of mainly hard corals that is intermittently broken up by sand, usually no deeper than 30 metres.

«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.

Here you will find a large shallow reef with huge coral boulders before a gently sloping wall into the deep.

Huge deep water boulder formations create daring swim - throughs as well as providing dramatic back - drops to its vibrant reef slopes.