Sentences with phrase «different shallow reefs»

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The reef here is stunning, even in the shallows where you will see a variety of different hard and soft corals and it is common to see frogfish, shoals of midnight snappers, barracuda, tuna, lionfish, clownfish and puffer fish.

Different in profile to some of the other sites here, Turtle is a series of shallow bommies on the edge of a reef.

There are four types of diving environments in the archipelago: first are the shallow inshore fringing island reefs where visibility is often poor but the diversity of marine life is unsurpassed; second are the offshore fringing reefs where the visibility is considerably better, and the coral much healthier; third are the pinnacles and small rocky islands which rise from the depths and attract larger marine life such as sharks and rays; and fourth are the banks which rise up from depths of over 300 meters and attract different types of marine life altogether.

During the trip we surfed 6 different spots all spots were reef breaks which were fairly shallow at low tide.

There are different options for dive sites, from shallow reefs, deep dives, walls, night dives to an amazing wrecks dive.

At some dive sites you have hard corals, at others it's mostly soft corals, and with such a large number of islands you find many different ecosystems including seagrass beds, mangroves, shallow reefs, deep drop offs, black sand, plus there are more recorded species of fish in Raja Ampat than anywhere else.

«The results also highlight the lack of connectivity between different habitats on a single reef, such as shallow and deep water, which has important implications under future climate change scenarios, as coral reefs will be largely dependent on neighbouring areas for their recovery.»

However, we demonstrated that there is specialisation of the coral host to particular reef environments, with each strain of coral host associating only with particular types of symbiotic algae... the results also highlight the lack of connectivity between different habitats on a single reef, such as shallow and deep water, which has important implications under future climate change scenarios, as coral reefs will be largely dependent on neighbouring areas for their recovery.