In Cuban walls
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Coelenterates (corals, jellyfish, anemones, hydroids)
Jellyfish
Box Jellyfish at night (Caribbean)
Moon jelly (Caribbean)
Anemones
Sand anemone Feeding at night (Sea of Cortez)
Anemone with one clownfish and many young damsels at night (Red Sea)
Corals
Hard Coral
Spawning in the Caribbean
Coral Reefs in:
Cuba
Kiribati (Christmas Island)
Red Sea
Sea of Cortez
Destroyed section of a reef due to a boat collision (Sea of Cortez)
Black coral
Yellow polyp black coral (Sea of Cortez)
Angelfish eats black coral (Sea of Cortez)
Broken coral reefs
Soft Coral
Red Sea
Cuba
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Arthropods
Arrow crab:
Arrow crab foreplay (Sea of Cortez)
Arrow crab protecting itself by staying in a Staghorn coral crab hydroid (Sea of Cortez)
Arrow crab feeding
Blue crab (Jaiba) feeding
Staghorn coral crab
Courtship (Sea of Cortez)
Pelagic Red Crabs (Pleuroncodes planipes)
Feed (Baja California)
Periclimenes shrimps
Living symbiotically on different species of starfishes (Sea of Cortez)
Porcelaine crabs
Feeding
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Echinoderms
Flower urchin
Spawn (Sea of Cortez)
Sea cucumbers
Synapted sea cucumber Spawning at night (sea of Cortez)
Synapted sea cucumber feeding (sea of Cortez)
Sea-cucumber spawn (Christmas Island)
Starfishes
Different Species in the Sea of Cortez.
Different species of starfish with Periclimenes shrimps living on them (Sea of Cortez)
Sealion playing with starfish (Sea of Cortez)
Crown of thorns Spawning (Kiribati, Christmas Island)
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Annelids
Christmas tree worms (Sea of Cortez)
Polichaete worms rising to the surface to spawn (Sea of Cortez)
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Mollusks
Sea slugs a “stampede” of a huge mass of sea slugs feeding in a sand plane (Caribbean)
Pen shell spawning
Humboldt Squids (Dosidicus gigas) (Sea of Cortez)
Tube worm feeding (cast filament of sticky mucous to feed) (Sea of Cortez)
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Plankton
Tunicates (Sea of Cortez)
Ctenophores (Sea of Cortez)
Heteropod molluscs (Sea of Cortez)
Pelagic Red Crabs (Pleuroncodes planipes) (Baja California)
Fish feed on plankton
Vertebrates
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Fishes
Fish schools
Different species (jacks, barracudas, grunts, sharks, sardines, creolfishes, barberfishes…)
More than 30 species of fish from the Sea of Cortez.
king angels Clean hammerhead (Cocos)
Cortez angel eats black coral (Sea of Cortez)
Barracuda
Mexican barracuda schools (Sea of Cortez)
Blind fish (Lucifuga sp. )
In a Cuban cave
Barberfish
Eat plankton (Sea of Cortez)
Clean hammerhead (Cocos)
Damselfishes
Blue damsel nibbles algae from a Seahorse (Sea of Cortez)
Giant Damsel defending territory against intruders (starfish, surgeonfish schools) (Sea of Cortez)
Chubs
With hook being cleaned by barberfish (Sea of Cortez)
Creolefish
Spawning (Sea of Cortez)
Frogfishes
Shaking lure to attract prey (Sea of Cortez)
Garden eels (Sea of Cortez)
Gobies
Blue banded gobies (California USA)
Crevalle jacks (Sea of Cortez)
Spawning
Hunting
Horse eye jacks Courtship (Sea of Cortez, Cocos Is.)
Giant Jawfish With eggs in Mouth (cortez)
Yellow face Jawfish Building home in the sand (Cuba)
Jewfish
With juvenile golden trevally (Sea of Cortez)
In wreck – (Pacific Ocean-in wreck)
With divers
Moray eels
Pike blennies
Signaling to attract females (Sea of Cortez)
Spawning. (Sea of Cortez)
Pilotfish
With Whale shark and with jewfish
Plankton eating fish
Creols, barberfish, damsels, Sargent mayors, (Sea of Cortez)
Rainbow wrass (Sea of Cortez)
Spawn
Eating a discarded sealion placenta
Feeding on a section of sargassum drifting in the current
Sabertooth blennie (Sea of Cortez)
Attacking surgeonfish
Sardines
Schools (Sea of Cortez and South Africa)
Being hunted by Cormorants and or fishes, sharks, sealions, dolphins
Sargent mayors
Feeding on a Sargasso branch (Sea of Cortez)
Feeding on plankton (Sea of Cortez)
Scads:
Schools (Sea of Cortez)
Being hunted by sealions and Jacks (Sea of Cortez)
Seahorse
Blue damsel feeds on algae that grows over the seahorse (Sea of Cortez)
With skin infection (Sea of Cortez)
Sick fish
Seahorse (Sea of Cortez)
Triggerfish (Sea of Cortez)
Signal blennie
Fighting for territory (Sea of Cortez)
Signaling aggression (Sea of Cortez)
Signaling to attract Female (Sea of Cortez)
Surgeonfish
Juvenile surgeonfish
Surgeofish schools invade territory of damsel and graze on it
Tropical fish
Christmas Island
Cuba
Red Sea
Triplefin blennie
Spawning (Sea of Cortez)
Trumpetfish
Hunting (cortez)
Tube blennies
Different species (Sea of Cortez)
Yellowtail surgeons
Feeding, invading territory of Giant Damsels that fight against them (Sea of Cortez
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Sharks and Rays
Bull Sharks
Cuba
Bronze whalers
Along with Common dolphins hunting sardines during South Africa’s Sardine run
Guitar Electric ray (Sea of Cortez)
Gray reef sharks:
In Bahamas
Christmas Island
Great white sharks:
South Africa
Hammerheads:
Schools (Sea of Cortez)
Being cleaned by King angels and Barberfish (Cocos Island)
Mantas
Being cleaned by clarion angels
With Divers
Defecates
With sealions
Silhouettes
Manta followed by mobula
Mobulas: (different species)
Schools (Sea of Cortez)
Small groups and individuals (Cocos)
Ragged tooth sharks (Sand tigers)
South Africa
Stingray
Mating (Sea of Cortez)
Feeding (Sea of Cortez)
Whale shark
Feeding (Sea of Cortez)
With Divers (Sea of Cortez)
With Sealions (Sea of Cortez)
White tip sharks
Rainbow runners scratch themselves against white tip sharks (Cocos)
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Birds
Cormorants
Hunting (Sea of Cortez)
With sealions that try to play with them but that prevent them from hunting (Sea of Cortez)
Magellanic Penguins (all out of water images in South Africa)
Nesting, with Chicks and Chicks
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Reptiles
Alligator (underwater images) (Crystal River, Florida)
Turtles (Baja California)
Turtle, still alive, caught in net.
Dead turtle caught in net
Releasing turtles that were tagged or caught in nets
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Mammals
Bottlenose Dolphins
Pod, underwater, in South Africa. Checking me with echolocation
Topside of dolphins riding bow wave of boats
Common dolphin
Pods with great amount of them in open water (underwater and topside images)
Hunting sardines during South Africa’s Sardine run
Topside of dolphins riding bow wave of boats
Elephant seal (all underwater Images)
Pup
Adult Male Molting
Swimming
Looking for stones to swallow on Bottom.
With divers
Manatees (Crystal River, Florida)
Baby suckle from Mother
Adult feeding on plants in the bottom
Gray whales (Baja California)
Close up of face (underwater images) of Calf and Calf and mother
Whales approach the boat to be caressed
People caressing them from boat
Whale watching in San Ignacio Lagoon
Surface & Underwater
Orcas (Killer Whales)
Underwater images of pods or individuals
Pilot whales (Sea of Cortez)
Underwater images
Pods
Individuals
With snorkelers
Sperm whales (Sea of Cortez)
Seals
Harbor seal in the California Kelp Forest
Sealions (Sea of Cortez)
Eating big snapper
Eating triggerfish
Killing and eating a Chub
Hunting
Patrolling area with females
Dead baby sealions
Divers petting an adult male sealion
Images of sealions and manta. One sealion very curious about a Manta.
With a whale shark
Aggressive display against my camera
Aggressive display between two males for territory
Pup sealions: (Sea of Cortez)
Playing with a starfish
Playing with divers
Playing with turtle
Swallows stones
Follow Cormorants that are hunting because they are curious about the birds
Playing with discarded fishing line
Playing with plastic bottle
Additional Images
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France:
Images from Normandie et Bretagne en France. Images from the cities, countryside, castels, neolitic monuments.
Cuba:
Images from Habana City
Abalone fisherman collecting Abalone in Mexico’s Baja Peninsula
Caves and sinkholes:
Flooded and dry caves in Cuba. Details of Secondary formations.
Blind fish and Shrimps that inhabit the caves
Beautiful images in a Cuban sinkhole where Halocline can be seen and sunlight creates beautiful effects.
Snorkelers with sealions
Tropical Fish Collectors working in Kiribati
Kelp forest
In California
In Mexico’s Baja (Pacific Ocean side)
People whale watching
Landscapes
Baja California (desert, Bojum trees, Seascapes)
South Africa
South Africa Sardine Run.
Images of Dolphins, sharks and sealions hunting sardines during their migration along the wild coast of South Africa
Sunsets and sunrises by the sea
Wrecks in La Paz Sea of Cortez.
Artificial Reefs: Wrecks
Vast images of Baja & the Sea of Cortez & Pacific Shorline
