Sentences with phrase «whip corals»

"Whip corals" refers to a type of coral that has long, flexible branches that look like whips or tendrils. Full definition
As for the macro Ankers whip coral shrimp are around a lot ranging from the colours of pink, green and orange.
white tip shark, hoxbill turtle, bumphead parrot fish, soft and hard coral and whip coral jungle top of wall.
As we flew through the water over sand at around 14 meters we came across what looked like a sunken island covered with whip coral, feather stars, anemones, rocks and crevices.
On the other side of the wall lies another wall, definitely worth exploring if the current allows it: Covered in soft coral, sponges, green tree coral and fans, it is the hiding place for many morays and puffers and it drops off into a flat lunar like landscape with whole gardens of whip corals, vibrating in the current.
The new dive site is nicknamed THREE CORNERS and is a very good dive, the bottom is around 35m and starts out as white sand & rubble, it then turns into really pristine coral wall with lots of sea fans and many whip corals as well as lots of hard & soft corals.
Apart from being secluded, you will see walls covered in whip coral and gorgonian sea fans.
Pygmy seahorses cling in numbers to gorgonian fans, anemones play home to crabs and shrimps, crinoids shelter clingfish, and squat lobsters and whip corals often have a little coral shrimp or two on board.
Neverthelees, a few creatures spotted through the macro lenses were the soft coral crab Hoplophrys oatesii, Zanzibar Whip Coral Shrimp and a other critters, like the Orange - spotted Pipefish and a couple of different scorpionfishes.
In the deeper sections, there are many red and white whip corals and here you are likely to spot small schools of Oriental sweetlips, blue - lined snapper, barracudas, grouper, triggerfishes, parrotfish and filefish.
The coral reefs are lush with hard and soft coral gardens, interspersed with large sponges and cascading whip corals.
Little Torres Island is a good dive site for appreciating the vibrancy of the corals here where there are healthy specimens of table coral, mosaic coral and red whip coral to name a few.
She offers a good chance to see Pipefish and Whip Coral Shrimp.
The coral varies from soft coral to hard coral, whip coral jungles and table corals and gorgeous gorgonions.
The southeast section of the island features a finger reef covered with whip coral, barrel sponges and a multitude of vividly colored reef fish.
There was beautiful coral everywhere, but we especially remembered a boulder coral called Majic Mushroom, the fan coral, looking like a flat tree, and the whip coral, basically just sticks.
Following this, we will then begin to spiral shallower, experiencing a beautiful wall dive littered with large parrotfish, jacks, whip coral and sea fans.
The diversity of sea life in Senggigi really did blow me away and I have to say my favourite part was that on nearly all the whip coral I found the truly magnificent Anker's whip coral shrimp (Pontonides Ankeri).
We have a good variety of soft colourful corals around the north Gilis such as anemones, bubble coral (a favorite turtle food), Daisy coral, whip coral, feather stars, sea fans, sea pens, leather coral, sponges, barrel coral and in some spots we get soft coral colonies.
Here, waters funneled through the Somo Somo Straits nurture visually stunning growths of multi-colored fan and whip corals.
Koh Chang is slowly developing into becoming one of Thailands top 5 dive destinations where the reefs and corals are abundant and untouched abundant with Cnidarians, Leather Corals, Tree Soft Corals, Spiny Gorgonians, Gorgonian Fan Corals and Whip Corals.
Currents rich in nutrients and plankton flow over the ridge, resulting in outstanding growths of sea fans, whip corals and brilliant soft corals.
You'll see a WW II pontoon bridge wreck, shallow soft coral garden, whip corals, whip coral shrimps, black corals, pink anthias and more.
The dive sites on the western and northern sides of Bunaken consist of vertical walls abundant with reef fishes, lobsters, whip corals and giant gorgonians.
Level: beginner to experienced diver Type of dive: off shore dive 3 minutes from the beach, sandy slope with rocks, photography What to see: pigmee sea horse, nudi branchs and flat worms, pipe fish, skeleton, squat and clear shrimp, whip coral shrimp, anemone and red crab, scorpion and lion fish, box and puffer fish, green sea turtle, Moray eels, soft and hard coral, jungle of whip coral.
From 10 - 25m, there is a gentle slope with various branching corals, including table corals with Yellow - margin moray eels, sponges, whip corals, small sea fans and a multi-coloured array of soft corals.
The first dive site visited by our guests was Boo West, an extending ridge that is connected to a seamount, the last one covered in both soft and hard coral (including a giant table), whip coral and gorgonians.
Drifting along with the current, our divers got to enjoy the plentiful soft coral growth along with gorgonians and whip coral that, together with the early morning sun, brought plenty of colors to the dive.
Denise and Bargibanti Pygmy Seahorse, Oranguntan Crab, Whip Coral Shrimp and different nudibranchs were subjects for the first group.
Once each dive begins, one of you will fix their face to the wall, scouring the colourful ledges and overhangs of corals and sponges for such creatures as pontohi pygmy seahorses, elegant squat lobsters, whip coral shrimps, slipper lobsters, decorator crabs, fantail pipefish and yellow leaffish.
The coral heads all have small caves in them that are full of gorgonians and whip corals, plus there is the odd nurse shark resting up in them.
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