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Short-finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) showing dorsal fin on surface. Found throughout the Indo-Pacific. Photo taken off Hawaii, USA.
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Short-finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) pod underwater. Found throughout the Indo-Pacific. Photo taken off Hawaii, USA.
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Short-finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) expelling air from blowhole on the surface. Found throughout the Indo-Pacific. Photo taken off Hawaii, USA.
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Short-finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) expelling air from blowhole on the surface. Found throughout the Indo-Pacific. Photo taken off Hawaii, USA.
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Short-finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) pod on the surface. Found throughout the Indo-Pacific. Photo taken off Hawaii, USA.
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Short-finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) expelling air from blowhole on the surface. Found throughout the Indo-Pacific. Photo taken off Hawaii, USA.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Short-finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) showing detail of the head on the surface. Found throughout the Indo-Pacific. Photo taken off Hawaii, USA.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Short-finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) underwater. Found throughout the Indo-Pacific. Photo taken off Hawaii, USA.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Short-finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) pod underwater. Found throughout the Indo-Pacific. Photo taken off Hawaii, USA.
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Scrubs and trees filled with plastic bags, down wind from a landfill site on the island of Maui, Hawaii. A state wide ban on plastic bags went into effect in January 2011. Hawaii, USA.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Pygmy Killer Whale (Feresa attenuata). Found in tropical and sub-tropical waters world-wide, but rarely sighted. Photo taken in Hawaii.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Pygmy Killer Whale (Feresa attenuata). Found in tropical and sub-tropical waters world-wide, but rarely sighted. Photo taken in Hawaii.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Pygmy Killer Whale (Feresa attenuata). Found in tropical and sub-tropical waters world-wide, but rarely sighted. Photo taken in Hawaii.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Pygmy Killer Whales (Feresa attenuata) pod of the surface. Found in tropical and sub-tropical waters world-wide, but rarely sighted. Photo taken in Hawaii.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Pygmy Killer Whale (Feresa attenuata). Found in tropical and sub-tropical waters world-wide, but rarely sighted. Photo taken off Hawaii, Pacific Ocean.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Pygmy Killer Whale (Feresa attenuata). Found in tropical and sub-tropical waters world-wide, but rarely sighted. Photo taken off Hawaii, Pacific Ocean.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Rough-toothed Dolphin (Steno bredanensis). Found in warm and tropical waters around the world. Photo taken off Big Island, Hawaii, USA.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Rough-toothed Dolphin (Steno bredanensis). Found in warm and tropical waters around the world. Photo taken off Big Island, Hawaii, USA.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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This pelagic Tunicate or Salp (Pegea confoederata) is part of the Salpidae family of gelatinous animals. Photo taken off Hawaii, Pacific Ocean, USA
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This pelagic Tunicate or Salp (Salpa aspera) is part of the Salpidae family of gelatinous animals. Photo taken off Hawaii, Pacific Ocean, USA
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This pelagic Tunicate or Salp (Salpa aspera) is part of the Salpidae family of gelatinous animals. Photo taken off Hawaii, Pacific Ocean, USA
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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This pelagic Tunicate or Salp (Salpa aspera) is part of the Salpidae family of gelatinous animals. Photo taken off Hawaii, Pacific Ocean, USA
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Diver observing a Sandbar Shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) in a lava cavern. Maui, Hawaii, USA. This is a composite image, comprising of 2 or more images digitally merged together.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Sandbar Shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus). Also known as Thickskin Shark. Found in Tropical and Warm Temperate Seas of the world. Photo taken Hawaii, USA.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Stripey (Microcanthus strigatus). Also known as Footballer. Found in Australia, from Exmouth to Cape Leeuwin (WA) & Merimbula (NSW) to Capricorn Group (Qld). Also northern New Zealand, Japan, China & Hawaii. Solitary Islands, Coffs Harbour, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Stripey (Microcanthus strigatus). Also known as Footballer. Found in Australia, from Exmouth to Cape Leeuwin (WA) & Merimbula (NSW) to Capricorn Group (Qld). Also northern New Zealand, Japan, China & Hawaii. Solitary Islands, Coffs Harbour, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Schooling Blue-striped Snapper (Lutjanus kasmira). Found throughout the Indo-West Pacific. Introduced to Hawaii as a possible food source.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Schooling Blue-striped Snapper (Lutjanus kasmira). Found throughout the Indo-West Pacific. Introduced to Hawaii as a possible food source.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Schooling Blue-striped Snapper (Lutjanus kasmira). Found throughout the Indo-West Pacific. Introduced to Hawaii as a possible food source.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Schooling Blue-striped Snapper (Lutjanus kasmira). Found throughout the Indo-West Pacific. Introduced to Hawaii as a possible food source.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Hawaiian Flagtails (Kuhlia xenura), schooling in surge close to shore. This fish is Endemic to Hawaii waters. Phot taken off Lanai, Hawaii, Pacific Ocean.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Blue Goatfish (Parupeneus cyclostomus), Trumpetfish (Aulostomus chinensis) and Whitemouth Moray eel (Gymnothorax meleagris), all working together to flush out small fish to prey on. Hawaii, Pacific Ocean, USA.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Schooling Yellow-striped Goatfish (Mulloidichthys vanicolensis). Found throughout the Indo-Pacific, from Red Sea to Hawaii and the Tuamotus, north to Japan and Lord Howe Island. Photo taken in Papua New Guinea.
© Hayley Versace / OceanwideImages.com |
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Crown-of-thorns Starfish (Acanthaster planci), showing detail of venomous spines and tube feet. Wounds from the spines can be very painful. Found throughout the Indo Pacific. Photo taken off Hawaii, Pacific Ocean.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Close detail of the extended tube feet of a Fisher's Sea Star (Mithrodia fisheri). Photo taken in Hawaii, Pacific Ocean, USA.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Close detail of the extended tube feet of a Fisher's Sea Star (Mithrodia fisheri). Photo taken in Hawaii, Pacific Ocean, USA.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Close detail of a Slate Pencil Sea Urchin (Heterocentrotus mammillatus). Photo taken off Hawaii, Pacific Ocean
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Close detail of a Slate Pencil Sea Urchin (Heterocentrotus mammillatus). Photo taken off Hawaii, Pacific Ocean
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Slate Pencil Sea Urchin (Heterocentrotus mammillatus). Photo taken off Hawaii, Pacific Ocean
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Fire Urchin (Astropyga radiata). Also known as Red Urchin and False Fire Urchin. Found throughout the Indo Pacific. Photo taken off Hawaii, Pacific Ocean.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Fire Urchin (Astropyga radiata). Also known as Red Urchin and False Fire Urchin. Found throughout the Indo Pacific. Photo taken off Hawaii, Pacific Ocean.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Fire Urchin (Astropyga radiata), expelling waste from the central sac. Also known as Red Urchin and False Fire Urchin. Found throughout the Indo Pacific. Photo taken off Hawaii, Pacific Ocean.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Reef scene with Slate Pencil Sea Urchin (Heterocentrotus mammillatus), corals and schooling Black Triggerfish (Melichthys niger). Photo taken off Hawaii, Pacific Ocean.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Diver observing a Banded Sea Urchin (Echinothrix calamaris). Hawaii, USA. Pacific Ocean.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whitemouth Moray Eel (Gymnothorax meleagris), and Slate Pencil Sea Urchin (Heterocentrotus mammillatus). Hawaii, USA. Pacific Ocean.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Diver observing a Slate Pencil Sea Urchin (Heterocentrotus mammillatus). Photo taken off Hawaii, Pacific Ocean, USA.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Slate Pencil Sea Urchins (Heterocentrotus mammillatus) and Ornate Butterflyfish (Chaetodon ornatissimus). Hawaii, USA
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Fire Urchin (Astropyga radiata). Also known as Red Urchin and False Fire Urchin. Found throughout the Indo Pacific. Photo taken off Hawaii, Pacific Ocean.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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