Sentences with phrase «staghorn coral cover»

Often Jacks & sharks are visitor while clown triggerfish, giant sponge & staghorn coral cover the site.

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These rock formations are covered with hard and soft corals with excellent shelter between staghorn thickets from predators and curious divers.

The corals on this reef are nearly untouched, resulting in a dive site covered in very large table corals, staghorn corals and gorgonian fans, which in their turn attract all sorts of coral fish.

Shallower sites in this region feature groves of staghorn, elkhorn and brain corals, covered in schools of blue tangs, wrasse, grunts, and snappers, and harboring queen angelfish, parrotfish and spotted trunkfish.

In the shallow water, particularly off the western beach, the coral cover is nearly solid, mostly staghorn, with only a few sandy patches.

This has to be one of the best dive sites in Asia for open water students or those who just like to dive in easy conditions a see the stuff of the underwater movies... from two shallow entry points on sandy bottoms the surrounding area is covered in hard coral,, giant table corals, staghorn coral, cabbage coral ans many many many other hard coral species thrive here, around twenty five bommies rise to about 5m which attract colorful fish galore, you can reach a depth of about 20m, but the best stuff is between 5 and 12m making it a perfect second or third dive of the day.

As for the third dive we stopped by Friwinbonda and its wall covered in sponges and soft coral that continues along a slope that add to the mix some hard coral, like tables, staghorn and elkhorn.

We went to the sloping area covered with staghorn corals and table corals.

The reef - flat features many small boulders of lesser star and brain corals, interspersed with clusters of staghorn corals, all covered in colourful reef - fish like chromis, wrasse, parrotfish and surgeonfish.