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Sweetlips – Maldives Edition
I find Striped Sweetlips extremely fascinating. I’m not sure what attracts me to them. Maybe it’s their solid strips, yellow accent, black shapes on their fins… or maybe it’s the dopey look they display. I don’t know… but I always stop to observed them during a dive. This short underwater clip was captured along a…
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Wildlife Wednesday : Napoleonfish
This is a short clip of a Napoleonfish (Cheilinus undulatus) spotted along a reef in Laamu Atoll, Maldives. The fish is also know as the Humphead Wrasse, Humphead Maori Wrasse, Giant Maori Wrasse, Napoleon Wrasse, and Napoleon fish. Naming reference depends on the region. The wrasse can be spotted along coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific…
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Wordless Wednesday : Dive Boat
July, 2014 Underwater Explorers Society (UNEXSO), Grand Bahama Island
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Coral Bommies
The author expresses joy when diving at sites featuring beautiful coral bommies filled with small fish. Bommies are coral reef outcrops resembling columns, often partially exposed at low tide. The content includes a photograph captured with a Panasonic Lumix GH5 in the Maldives.
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Wildlife Wednesday : Yellow Boxfish
The Yellow Boxfish (Ostracion cubicus) is one of my underwater favorites. Its square shaped yellow body with black spots can be easily recognized along coral reefs. This boxfish was observed in the Laamu Atoll located in the Maldives. A Few Interesting Facts: When stressed or injured it releases the neurotoxin tetrodotoxin from its skin, which…
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Wordless Wednesday : Mythical Sea Creature
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Widlife Wednesday : Circling Sharks
San Benedicto Island Revillagigedo Archipelago Mexico
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Wordless Wednesday : Dinghy
A dinghy, a small boat typically carried or towed by a larger vessel, serves as a lifeboat or tender. The content features a scuba diver climbing onto a dinghy in the Socorro Islands, with a note that additional images from Mexico are available.
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Fluorescent Friday
I have always been intrigued by how and why some creatures fluoresce above and below the waterline. Biofluorescence is the absorption and reemission of light from living organisms. Fluorescent organisms have proteins built into their skin or other tissues that absorb energy from light and reemit it as a different colors. This results in a…
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Wildlife Wednesday : Giant Electric Ray
This was the first animal I shot when I arrive at the Revillagigedo Archipelago in Mexico. Initially, I thought it was a Torpedo Ray but the roundness of its mouth and dorsal fins didn’t match. I had to reach out to the internet to correctly identify the creature as a Giant Electric Ray. The Giant…