Sentences with phrase «shallow fringing reef»

The topography of the site is very simple with a relatively shallow fringing reef, and an extensive plateau that ranges in depth from 14 - 26m.

Typical profiles along most of this coast begin with shallow fringing reefs around points and bays, or spur - and - groove formations along more exposed beaches.

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Tobacco Caye This is an attractive five - acre palm fringed island with excellent beaches and surrounded by dazzling, turquoise waters due to the shallow reef along the island's eastern and southern shore.

The islands are surrounded by shallow water, fringing coral reefs where diving depths reach 20 meters and visibility is around 10 - 15 meters.

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.

50 miles from the nearest city and largely unexplored, our barrier reef stretches from the town of Puerto Viejo to the Panamanian boarder and offers you more than 25 fixed dive locations ranging from shallow coral gardens to deep, fringing reefs and vertical walls dropping to over 130 feet!

Upon leaving the hotel garden due east and one steps into the golden sand, turquoise shallows of Sanur lagoon — a natural secure swimming lagoon that is sheltered from surf and swells by a stunning fringing reef system just 200 meters offshore.

The fringing reefs here are shallow and slope gently to the sea floor.

Sanur beach stretches for about 4 km with soft golden sands and a safe and shallow lagoon trapped behind the outer fringing reef system.

The barrier reef stretches from the town of Puerto Viejo to the Panamanian boarder and offers you more than 25 fixed dive locations ranging from shallow coral gardens to deep fringing reefs and vertical walls dropping to over 140 feet!

I was drifting along the outer edge of a fringing reef, with dark oceanic water to one side and the bright, comfortable shallows to my right.

Coral reefs - Rock - like limestone (calcium carbonate) structures built by corals along ocean coasts (fringing reefs) or on top of shallow, submerged banks or shelves (barrier reefs, atolls), most conspicuous in tropical and sub-tropical oceans.

As the island sinks, the fringing reef continues to grow upwards so the living corals stay in shallow water.