Sentences with phrase «large shallow coral»

Koh Si - This site competes with Koh Yawasam for the best snorkelling area in Ao Nang, with 2 large shallow coral covered plateaus on either side of the island.

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Shallow, flat tanks with a large surface area will provide adequate light and promote good water circulation around each piece of coral.

Once you're comfortable, you'll then head off to a shallow reef where you'll encounter your first signs of life; usually reef fish, corals, anemones and the occasional large fish.

The barrier reef in Belize is the second largest in the world, and features shallow coral gardens, steep drop offs where large predators hunt, caves and chimneys, and the world - famous Blue Hole.

Pulau Gaya, the largest island, offers possibly the best beaches and corals, while the littlest island, Pulau Mamutik, is an internationally - renowned macro dive site, ideal for novice divers with its shallow waters and gentle current.

The Soccoro Islands offer little in the way of shallow sites or colorful corals and the emphasis is on the larger marine life that congregates near the rocky slopes and pinnacles that rise from the deep water.

One should observe in some of these shallower patches the concave, hollow, upper surface of the large coral heads.

Many of the large coral fans have been smashed and much of the shallow reef is just a mass of dead coral.

A large variety of stony and soft corals flourish on this shallow reef.

Diving along in the shallows, you'll find large patches of delicate green sheet corals, porites and formosa bottle - brush corals.

As I said earlier Pemuteran has the largest area of shallow coral reefs; the spectacular coral reef growth near land made for a diving and snorkeling paradise.

Large schools of colorful tropical fish and beautiful corals at the shallow reefs will take your breath away.

The first of its many attractions is a shallow coral reef and wall with some large overhangs.

Exceptional growths of tan lettuce - leaf create shallow coral spurs at 10 ft. Reef urchins, red boring sponges, and many other kinds of organisms hide or live on these large elongated coral growths.

With its unique geographical features, such as bays, inlets, estuaries, atolls, the world's second largest coral reef, lagoons, abundant shallow water flats and easy access to deep, open waters, Ambergris Caye offers a wide variety of fishing experiences and opportunities.

Beyond the shallow reef, large sheet coral up to 6 ft across mantle the wall.

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.

The snorkeling here consists of shallow coral heads spread out over a very large area within the reef.

Diving on the Chinchorro reef you will find a large variety of coral species, including black coral at unusually shallow depths and many other species of soft coral that are found sporadically and in small quantities on the Great Maya Reef that are vibrant and abundant in Chinchorro.

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.

Here in shallow water, large coral boulders and coral bommies, with a healthy cover of soft corals, are scattered over a sandy bottom.

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.

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

This makes the Ningaloo reef one of the most accessible large coral reef systems in the world, easily rivaling the Great Barrier for diversity while making seeing it as easy as wading into the shallow water.

Larger marine creatures can often be seen «patrolling» the outside deeper waters, and the shallow coral gardens are ideal for snorkelling and beginner divers.

It is this sea level rise that has stimulated coral growth, created larger shallow water ecologies and changed the shape of landmasses.