A rare moment during the process of coral bleaching
Tag: reef
i’m so in love with this. i can’t even. ah. my favourite feeling in the world is putting your head beneath the water and entering an entirely different place, so peaceful, so quiet. what i miss more than anything when i’m living away from the ocean is being able to duck under and leave all my worries on the surface.
This is extraordinary
not only that, but they say only about 5% of ocean depths have been observed. And around 70% of Earth is covered by water. I just think that’s mind-blowing.
Stormy Waters
“It was great fun swimming amongst the breaking waves, where the turtles fed. They’d get smashed in to the rocks as they ate but they didn’t seem to care. Lacking the shell, I had to be more careful” – by
Green sea turtles (or Honu, as they are known in Hawai’ian) are often seen swimming and relaxing around the shallows in Oahu, Hawai’i
The Whitetip Reef shark is a fairly small shark, not usually getting bigger than five feet long. These little guys are one of the most common sharks found on Indo-Pacific coral reefs. Its scientific name “Triaenodon obesus” means “Fat Trident-toothed” shark. During the day, the Whitetip Reef shark often rests on the seafloor and continuously gulps water to breathe, meaning it does not have to swim to breathe! This shark is more active at night, and on an island called “Cocos” in the Pacific, the Whitetip Reef sharks have learned to hunt by following divers lights.
More whitetips! Yay!
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