Sentences with phrase «for nudibranches»

As your group cruises along looking for Nudibranches, someone's exhaled bubbles inevitably knock a few off the wall above, making it quite apparent where this popular dive site got it's playful name...

The online voting for the nudibranch competition day drew to a close at 4 am this morning Lembeh time and our team had some great results.

The dive site is named for nudibranchs or maybe because the rock even kind of looks like a nudibranch from the surface!

Nearby is a muck bottom of sponges, soft corals and hydroids famous for nudibranchs, blue - ring octopus and many other «Muck» critters.

When not working with ARCUS on programs like the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH), you might find her wandering Pacific Northwest riverbanks with her dog and fly - fishing husband, snapping pictures of bees, exploring Puget Sound for nudibranchs and lumpsuckers, or enabling the inveterate Settlers of Catan addictions of her family and friends.

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«If the nudibranchs get into those currents they can go for a real ride,» he says — and he has already received «remarkable» reports from as far north as Vancouver Island.

In any case, this odd dietary habit may prove beneficial for both C. peregrina and the colony of hydroids it preys on: The nudibranch gets extra nutrition, and as a result it can make ends meet by consuming fewer polyps — thus reducing the overall damage to its hydroid home.

This week in Lembongan... The common goatfish is often overlooked by experienced divers as they glide their eyes over the reef and through the coral looking for a crazy small creatures or that next colourful nudibranch.

Two more fun filled dives — if you're looking for something specific like frog fish or nudibranch, put in some last minute requests with your expert guide.

For critter lovers, you won't be disappointed by the array of nudibranch, including some endemic species, as well as blue ring octopus, pygmy seahorses and frogfish.

This are is great for finding macro life with seahorses, ghost pipefish, frogfish, crabs, shrimps and loads of nudibranch.

The diversity of marine life is exceptional and Bali provides one of the few opportunities for divers to see the mighty mola (oceanic sunfish — mola ramsayi) manta rays and other large pelagics — but diving in Bali is not only for «big fish» enthusiasts, macro divers have a selection of treats awaiting them too — the pygmy sea horse, frogfishes, ghost pipe fish and a plethora of nudibranch species to name but a few can all be found on Bali's fringing coral reefs.

Coral Garden offers more variety and is loved by photographers for the diversity of macro marine life as well as ribbon eels, anemone fish, mantis shrimp, countless nudibranchs and yet more colourful reef fish..

At 40m deep, you will see thousands of nudibranchs scattered all over the seabed as far as you can see; this, together with large schools of fish creating magnificent patterns, makes for an incredible diving experience.

The long stretch of sand between the coral gardens is a great place to search for Flounders and Cuttlefish, and in recent years there has been an amazing variety of Nudibranchs found on the pyramid, and it's well worth taking time to explore this site.

There is also a diving site nearby which is good for exploring rock formations and sea slugs (nudibranch).

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!

Haan's Reef on Gili Air is fast becoming renowned for excellent «muck diving» where divers can see rare critters like frogfish, pink — leafed scorpion fish, flying gunard, mantis shrimp, nudibranchs, pygmy seahorses, robust ghost pipefish, blue ringed octopus and ringed pipefish.

It's a great place for spotting nudibranches, batfish, stingray, eels and groupers.

Location: southeast of Boracay, in the Tabon Strait Access: about 25 minutes by boat from White Beach Experience: advanced divers Depth: 5 - 20 meters Visibility: up to 30 meters Current: strong Characteristics: 2 dive sites (small Laurel and big Laurel) with walls, tunnel, reef, many fish species, sponges, sea cucumbers, sea stars, sea snakes, nudibranchs, soft corals, hard corals, black corals, leathery corals good for photography

Clifton Rock encompasses an area with a large number of boulders, creating wonderful swim - throughs and secret spots for marine life including nudibranches, starfish, soft sponges and crayfish.

Turtles, Lion Fish, and Nudibranch, Oh my... Diving around the Indonesian triangle comprised of Gili Air, Amed, and Lembongan, there is so much sea life that it is easy to overlook the everyday critters that tend to get forgotten throughout our dive since we are looking for the «Big» fish in the ocean blue or...

Normally Spanish Dancers are pretty rare to find around Lembongan, but it is these crazy nudibranch that are dive guides are looking for on night dives.

The sanctuary is also known for smaller finds such nudibranch, eels, frogfish, scorpionfish and leaf fish.

You may be lucky and encounter reef sharks, but for sure you will find surgeon fish, bat fish, moray eels, stingrays, trevally, as well as many small Critters such as Ornate Ghost Pipe fish, Nudibranch, Leaf Scorpion fish, Frogfish, Garden eels, a wide range of shrimps.

The last day of diving is at the muck slopes in Bima Bay which provide the habitat for mimic octopus, frogfish and nudibranchs.

The area is a haven for photographers as they can focus on the smaller species such as multicoloured nudibranches.

Starting the trip from the straits of Lembeh where everything was about macro, black volcanic sands, rare nudibranchs, colourful crustaceans, creatures crawling around and a legendary Hairy frogfish that made a great start for the trip.

The region is known for copious amounts of puffer fish, a number of nudibranchs, manta rays and white tip sharks.

The site is also a popular spot for night diving and usually offers an array of turtles, small fish and nudibranches.

It is renowned for its bio-diversity, with 250 species of corals, an assortment of uniquely coloured nudibranchs and over 450 different species of fish.

Enormous elephant ear and barrel sponges, schools of long fin banner fish and red tooth triggerfish in their hundreds, frogfish, nudibranchs, eels, surgeon fish, snapper, dog tooth tuna cruising for a snack!

There is a surprising amount of fish life here, as well as being a great place to hunt for some beautiful nudibranchs.

The Japanese shipwreck in Lipah Bay is quite a small wreck, but it's overgrown with corals in places, such as around the ship's propeller, with large gorgonian fans and sponges that have become playgrounds for schools of small reef fish, nudibranchs and varieties of other sea critters that macro photographers will love.

Making a great spot for a night dive, it's home to nudibranchs, stingrays, scorpion fish, octopus as well as some great corals.

Macro life here may include colourful nudibranchs, seahorses and pipefish for the eagle - eyed.

As for the findings on this dive, a few to be mentioned are Bubble Coral Shrimp, Bargibanti Pygmy Seahorse, nudibranchs, Papuan Scorpionfish, in between others.

These dive sites are a must for photographers as you can expect to find a host of different nudibranch, various crustaceans including harlequin crabs, moray eels, turtles, schools of colourful antheas and damsels as well as scorpionfish and other interesting bottom dwellers.

This dive site was ideal for macro lovers considering the abundant amount of colorful nudibranchs, sea slugs and flatworms spotted by our dive guides especially in the shallows, together with crustaceans like the Hairy Shrimp; besides that it was an opportunity to spot a Denise Pygmy Seahorse!

It's a great dive site for finding frog fish, Hawaiian lionfish, eels, and several species of nudibranchs.

Start with a great dive in the calm, clear waters of Angel Reef at Moyo Island with impressive elephant ear and huge barrel sponges, schools of long fin banner fish and red tooth triggerfish in their hundreds, maybe frogfish, nudibranchs, eels, surgeon fish, snapper and tuna cruising for a snack!

Among the marine life seen, some of the highlights to be mentioned were nudibranchs, including the genus Phidiana, Orangutan Crab and our first Pygmy Seahorse, a Denise specimen, for the macro lovers.

Pygmy seahorses, ghost pipefish and a rainbow of nudibranchs make ideal subjects for macro photographers.

We passed all the dive looking for some macro life: orangutan crab, shrimps, and nudibranchs.

Among the marine life seen, some of the highlights to be mentioned were Bubble Coral Shrimp, nudibranchs, including the genus Phidiana and Orangutan Crab for the macro lovers as well as a Hawksbill Turtle and the first Wobbegong Shark of the trip.

As usual, our divemasters spend their time looking for critters, and some of the ones spotted included: nudibranchs, crabs, like the Decorator Crab, shrimps, like the Marbled Shrimp and scorpionfishes.

For «big fish» aficionados, whale sharks, manta rays, leopard sharks and other pelagics are a major draw whilst macro-life such as seahorse, frogfish, ghost pipefish and an array of nudibranch and crustaceans can all be seen amongst the reefs.

Due to the strenght of the currents during the day, our groups spend most of the time along the northern wall looking for critters like Crinoid and Wire Coral Shrimp, Soft Coral Pipefish, flatworms, nudibranchs, Bargibanti Pygmy Seahorse and more.

Also a very good place for macro underwater photography with pygmy seahorse and nudibranch.

As for the macro life, bottom - dwellers like scorpionfishes were also captured, besides shrimps, like the Popcorn Shrimp, and a few nudibranchs.