Carl Roessler
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A great white shark homes in on its prey.
Scientific name: Carcharodon Carcharias
Location: The Neptune Islands, South Australia
Copyright: © Carl Roessler
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Photo Alignment: 35mm (horizontal)
Comments: There are as many as 20,000 sea lions and fur seals in the vicinity of the Neptune Islands. That makes it an excellent zone for photographing their principal predator, the great white shark. I've seen up to seven of these colossal sharks simultaneously in these waters.
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Jessica Roessler in a crevice lined with colorful soft coral colonies.
Scientific name: Dendronephthya sp.
Location: The Red Sea
Copyright: © Carl Roessler
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Comments: Currents flowing along the coast funnel through this crevice, providing a concentrated supply of the plankton upon which these corals feed.
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Colorful tropical reef fish accentuate the water clarity on a healthy coral reef.
Scientific name: Anthias squammipinnus and others
Location: The Red Sea
Copyright: © Carl Roessler
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Photo Alignment: 35mm (horizontal)
Comments: Reefs of the Red Sea are particularly crowded and colorful in areas where they have not been overfished or overdived.
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Jessica Roessler with a deck gun on a shallow shipwreck.
Location: Truk Lagoon, Micronesia (Central Pacific)
Copyright: © Carl Roessler
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Comments: The Dai Nhi Nho Maru is a shallow gunboat just off a shoreline in Truk Lagoon, where dozens of Japanese merchant ships and their defenders were destroyed in an American air raid known as Operation Hailstone.
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An aggressive skunk clownfish displays to bluff an intruder.
Scientific name: Amphiprion Sandricinos
Location: Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
Copyright: © Carl Roessler
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Photo Alignment: 35mm (horizontal)
Comments: The eastern province of New Guinea is particularly rich in coral reef species, including several species of symbiotic clownfish and anemones.
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Goatfish and snappers school by a shallow coral reef.
Scientific name: Parupeneus sp., Lutjanus sp. and others.
Location: Marion Reef, Australia's Coral Sea
Copyright: © Carl Roessler
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Photo Alignment: 35mm (horizontal)
Comments: In the absence of roving predators, reef fish will often gather in areas where modest currents flow and align as if socially.
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The leafy sea dragon is one of the sea's most flamboyant living designs.
Scientific name: Phycodurus Equus
Location: Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Copyright: © Carl Roessler
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Photo Alignment: 35mm (horizontal)
Comments: The extravagant body appendages and coloration of this relative of the seahorse enable it to quickly blend into a background of kelp.
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Facial portrait of a three-inch-long Royal purple gramma.
Scientific name: Gramma loreto
Location: Curacao, Neth. Antilles
Copyright: © Carl Roessler
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Photo Alignment: 35mm (horizontal)
Comments: The Royal purple gramma is a common small reef fish of the Caribbean.
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A diver rides a huge manta ray
Scientific name: Manta sp.
Location: San Benedicto Island, Revillagigados Islands
Copyright: © Carl Roessler
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Comments: The large manta rays found at San Benedicto Island are so unafraid of divers that they will approach and unmistakably signal you to hop on for a ride.