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Red Sea, Dahab, Egypt.  Red Sea anemonefish (also known popularly as clownfish) emerge to protect the anemone that is their home on the reef.  © Rick Collier<br />
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Red Sea, Dahab, Egypt. Red Sea anemonefish (also known popularly as clownfish) emerge to protect the anemone that is their home on the reef. © Rick Collier





scuba diver divers Egypt 'Red Sea' 'Ras Mohammed' Dahab Sharm 'Sharm el-Sheikh' 'Sharm al-Shaykh' underwater u/w blue coral reef anemone fish anemonefish clownfish

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  • Red Sea, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.  The Red Sea royal angelfish is spectacular.  © Rick Collier<br />
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scuba diver divers Egypt 'Red Sea' 'Ras Mohammed' Sharm 'Sharm el-Sheikh' 'Sharm al-Shaykh' underwater u/w blue coral reef angel royal angelfish
  • Red Sea, Dahab, Egypt.  A large school of cave sweepers, also known as hatchetfish, hang out near the cave entrance.  Red Sea, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.  A cave sweepers (hatchetfish) school with glassfish (the Red Sea dwarf sweeper) near the entrance of a cave.  © Rick Collier<br />
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scuba diver divers Egypt 'Red Sea' 'Ras Mohammed' Sharm 'Sharm el-Sheikh' 'Sharm al-Shaykh' Dahab underwater u/w blue coral reef cave sweeper hatchetfish glassfish<br />
© Rick Collier
  • Red Sea, Dahab, Egypt.  Red Sea anemonefish (also known popularly as clownfish) emerge to protect the anemone that is their home on the reef.  © Rick Collier<br />
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scuba diver divers Egypt 'Red Sea' 'Ras Mohammed' Dahab Sharm 'Sharm el-Sheikh' 'Sharm al-Shaykh' underwater u/w blue coral reef anemone fish anemonefish clownfish
  • Red Sea, Dahab, Egypt.  Red Sea anemonefish (also known popularly as clownfish) emerge to protect the anemone that is their home on the reef.  © Rick Collier<br />
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scuba diver divers Egypt 'Red Sea' 'Ras Mohammed' Dahab Sharm 'Sharm el-Sheikh' 'Sharm al-Shaykh' underwater u/w coral reef anemone fish anemonefish clownfish
  • Red Sea, Dahab, Egypt.  A colorful lizardfish hides by resting motionless atop a reef outcropping.  © Rick Collier<br />
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scuba diver divers Egypt 'Red Sea' 'Ras Mohammed' Sharm 'Sharm el-Sheikh' 'Sharm al-Shaykh' Dahab underwater u/w coral reef lizardfish
  • Red Sea, Dahab, Egypt.  Red Sea anemonefish (also known popularly as clownfish) and dominos (dominofish) constantly test one another, as they each try to defend 'their' home anemone.  Their bad luck that their two anemones are within inches of one-another.  © Rick Collier<br />
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scuba diver divers Egypt 'Red Sea' 'Ras Mohammed' Dahab Sharm 'Sharm el-Sheikh' 'Sharm al-Shaykh' underwater u/w coral reef anemone fish anemonefish clownfish domino dominofish
  • Red Sea, Dahab, Egypt.  Red Sea anemonefish (also known popularly as clownfish) emerge to protect the anemone that is their home on the reef.  © Rick Collier<br />
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scuba diver divers Egypt 'Red Sea' 'Ras Mohammed' Dahab Sharm 'Sharm el-Sheikh' 'Sharm al-Shaykh' underwater u/w coral reef anemone fish anemonefish clownfish
  • Red Sea, Dahab, Egypt.  A school of small glassfish reflect the sunlight filtering down from above.  © Rick Collier<br />
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scuba diver divers Egypt 'Red Sea' 'Ras Mohammed' Dahab Sharm 'Sharm el-Sheikh' 'Sharm al-Shaykh' underwater u/w glass fish glassfish
  • Red Sea, Dahab, Egypt.  A family of beautifully colored scalefin antheas hide under some coral.  © Rick Collier<br />
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scuba diver divers Egypt 'Red Sea' 'Ras Mohammed' Dahab Sharm 'Sharm el-Sheikh' 'Sharm al-Shaykh' underwater u/w fish scalefin anthea antheas coral reef
  • Red Sea, Dahab, Egypt.  A Red Sea bannerfish.  © Rick Collier<br />
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scuba diver divers Egypt 'Red Sea' 'Ras Mohammed' Dahab Sharm 'Sharm el-Sheikh' 'Sharm al-Shaykh' underwater u/w fish bannerfish
  • Trumpetfish near reef.  St. Eustatius (Statia), Netherlands Antilles.<br />
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"St. Eustatius" "Saint Eustatius" Netherlands Antilles "Lesser Antilles" Statia underwater SCUBA dive reef fish sand bottom trumpetfish
  • A large parrotfish and school of French grunts among soft and hard corals atop a reef.  St. Eustatius (Statia), Netherlands Antilles.<br />
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"St. Eustatius" "Saint Eustatius" Statia Netherlands Antilles "Lesser Antilles" underwater ocean SCUBA dive reef coral soft corals fish parrotfish grunts
  • A school of grunts swims across a reef.  St. Eustatius (Statia), Netherlands Antilles.<br />
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"St. Eustatius" "Saint Eustatius" Statia Netherlands Antilles "Lesser Antilles" underwater ocean SCUBA dive reef coral soft corals fish French grunt grunts
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  • The honeycomb cowfish will turn blue when ready to mate or when alarmed.  St. Eustatius (Statia), Netherlands Antilles.<br />
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"St. Eustatius" "Saint Eustatius" Statia Netherlands Antilles "Lesser Antilles" Caribbean underwater diving ocean SCUBA dive honeycomb cowfish blue
  • A porcupinefish peers curiously out from under a sunken barge.  St. Eustatius (Statia), Netherlands Antilles.<br />
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"St. Eustatius" "Saint Eustatius" Statia Netherlands Antilles "Lesser Antilles" Caribbean underwater diving ocean SCUBA dive porcupinefish "porcupine fish" sunken barge wreck
  • A porcupinefish peers curiously out from under a sunken barge.  St. Eustatius (Statia), Netherlands Antilles.<br />
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"St. Eustatius" "Saint Eustatius" Statia Netherlands Antilles "Lesser Antilles" Caribbean underwater diving ocean SCUBA dive porcupinefish "porcupine fish" sunken barge wreck
  • A nearly translucent pink fish sleeping above a group of tube sponges.  St. Eustatius (Statia), Netherlands Antilles.<br />
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"St. Eustatius" "Saint Eustatius" Statia Netherlands Antilles "Lesser Antilles" Caribbean underwater diving ocean SCUBA dive fish sponge
  • Two fish square off.  St. Eustatius (Statia), Netherlands Antilles.<br />
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"St. Eustatius" "Saint Eustatius" Statia Netherlands Antilles "Lesser Antilles" Caribbean underwater diving ocean SCUBA dive fish fight display
  • Squirrelfish.  St. Eustatius (Statia), Netherlands Antilles.<br />
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"St. Eustatius" "Saint Eustatius" Statia Netherlands Antilles "Lesser Antilles" Caribbean underwater diving ocean SCUBA dive diver wreck squirrel squirrelfish sponge sponges fish
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