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Longsnout Boarfish (Pentaceropsis recurvirostris), on temperate deep water reef comprising of Sea Sponges and Zoanthids. Photo taken at Governor Island Marine Sanctuary, Bicheno, Tasmania, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Longsnout Boarfish and male Blue-throated Wrasse, on temperate deep water reef comprising of Sea Sponges, Sea Whips and Crinoids. Photo taken at Governor Island Marine Sanctuary, Bicheno, Tasmania, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Longsnout Boarfish (Pentaceropsis recurvirostris), on temperate deep water reef comprising of Sea Sponges and Sea Whips. Photo taken at Governor Island Marine Sanctuary, Bicheno, Tasmania, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Longsnout Boarfish (Pentaceropsis recurvirostris), on temperate deep water reef comprising of Sea Sponges and Sea Whips. Photo taken at Governor Island Marine Sanctuary, Bicheno, Tasmania, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Longsnout Boarfish (Pentaceropsis recurvirostris), on temperate deep water reef comprising of Sea Sponges and Sea Whips. Photo taken at Governor Island Marine Sanctuary, Bicheno, Tasmania, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Blue-throated Wrasse (Notolabrus tetricus), male, on temperate deep water reef comprising of Sea Sponges, Sea Whips and Crinoids. Photo taken at Governor Island Marine Sanctuary, Bicheno, Tasmania, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Longsnout Boarfish (Pentaceropsis recurvirostris), on temperate deep water reef comprising of Sea Sponges and Sea Whips. Photo taken at Governor Island Marine Sanctuary, Bicheno, Tasmania, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Longsnout Boarfish (Pentaceropsis recurvirostris), on temperate deep water reef comprising of Sea Sponges and Sea Whips. Photo taken at Governor Island Marine Sanctuary, Bicheno, Tasmania, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Exquisitely coloured sponges, tunicates and algas attached to a timber pylon beneath Flinders Pier, Western Port Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Exquisitely coloured sponges, tunicates and algas attached to a timber pylon beneath Flinders Pier, Western Port Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Temperate reef scene consisting of Sea Star, Sponges and Sea Urchin, photographed under Sorrento Pier, Port Phillip Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Exquisitely coloured sponges, tunicates and algas attached to a timber pylon beneath Flinders Pier, Western Port Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Temperate reef scene consisting of Sea Star, Sponges, Sea Urchin and Alga, photographed under Sorrento Pier, Port Phillip Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Globefish (Diodon nichthemerus), amongst sea sponge and alga. Photo taken in Port Phillip Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Six-spine Leatherjacket (Meuschenia freycineti), amongst strap kelp. Photo taken at Pope's Eye, Port Phillip Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Sea Sponge and Strap Kelp on cross timbers beneath Blairgowrie Pier, Port Phillip Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Underwater photographer exploring underneath Port Hughes Jetty or Pier, with pilings covered and encrusted with temperate sponges and corals. South Australia.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Underwater photographer exploring underneath Port Hughes Jetty or Pier, with pilings covered and encrusted with temperate sponges and corals. South Australia.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Yellowtail Scad (Trachurus novaezelandiae), schooling underneath Port Hughes Jetty or Pier, with pylons covered and encrusted with temperate sponges and corals. Port Hughes, South Australia.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Jetty or Pier Pylons covered and encrusted with a wide variety of temperate and cold-water sponges and corals. Port Hughes, South Australia.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Underwater habitat beneath the Edithburgh Jetty or Pier in Edithburgh, South Australia, showing a variety of invertebrates, including Sea Star (Petricia vernicina), colonizing old pylons that have fallen onto the ocean bottom.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Scuba diver exploring the shipwreck HMS Saskatchewan encrusted in inverebrate marine life. Situated near Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Scuba diver exploring the shipwreck HMS Saskatchewan encrusted in inverebrate marine life. Situated near Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Scuba diver exploring the shipwreck HMS Saskatchewan encrusted in inverebrate marine life. Situated near Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Scuba diver exploring the shipwreck HMS Saskatchewan encrusted in inverebrate marine life. Situated near Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Scuba diver exploring the shipwreck HMS Saskatchewan encrusted in inverebrate marine life. Situated near Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Colorful reef scene comprising of marine invertebrates and fishes on the Browning Wall. Situated offshore northern Vancouver Island, British Colombia, Canada.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Colorful reef scene comprising of marine invertebrates and fishes on the Browning Wall. Situated offshore northern Vancouver Island, British Colombia, Canada.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Temperate reef scene, Sea Sponges and Gorgonian Corals. Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve, situated off the east coast of North Island, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean.
© Justin Gilligan / OceanwideImages.com |
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Diver photographing colourful sea sponges and seaweeds decorating the pylons under Blairgowrie Jetty. Port Phillip Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Diver observing a discarded push bike resting on the sea floor. Rye, Port Phillip bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Scuba Diver exploring Giant Kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) forest. Also known as Strap Kelp. Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Scuba diver swims along the invertebrate encrusted walls of Browning Passage in Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
© MIchael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Scuba diver exploring the wreck of the HMCS Saskatchewan. Situated off Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
© MIchael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Scuba diver exploring the wreck of the HMCS Saskatchewan. Situated off Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
© MIchael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Scuba diver exploring the wreck of the Cape Breton. Situated off Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
© MIchael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Scuba diver exploring the wreck of the Cape Breton. Situated off Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
© MIchael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Scuba diver exploring the wreck of the Cape Breton. Situated off Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
© MIchael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Diver exploring a sea cave. Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve, situated off the east coast of North Island, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean.
© Justin Gilligan / OceanwideImages.com |
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Short-head Seahorse (Hippocampus breviceps) on sea algae. Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Short-head Seahorse (Hippocampus breviceps) on sea algae. Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Short-head Seahorse (Hippocampus breviceps) on sea algae. Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Southern Pot-belly Seahorse (Hippocampus bleekeri). Also known as Big-belly Seahorse. Found on a variety of soft-bottom habitats in southern Australia from Lakes Entrance to Great Australian Bight and around Tasmania.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Short-head Seahorse (Hippocampus breviceps) on sea algae. Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Southern Pot-belly Seahorse (Hippocampus bleekeri). Also known as Big-belly Seahorse. Found on a variety of soft-bottom habitats in southern Australia from Lakes Entrance to Great Australian Bight and around Tasmania.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Short-head Seahorse (Hippocampus breviceps) on sea algae. Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Southern Pot-belly Seahorse (Hippocampus bleekeri). Also known as Big-belly Seahorse. Found on a variety of soft-bottom habitats in southern Australia from Lakes Entrance to Great Australian Bight and around Tasmania.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Short-head Seahorse (Hippocampus breviceps) on sea algae. Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia
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