VERRILL'S CUP CORAL, Rhizopsammia verrilli - Puako Night |
Yellow Margin Moray |
Gold Lace Nudibranch - Puako |
White Tip Reef Shark - Pentagon |
Crown Jellyfish |
Puako |
Puako |
Puako |
Puako |
Crab in Antler Coral |
Titan Scorpionfish - Honokohau Harbor |
Caves Puako |
Manta Rays at OTEC |
Surprise, Where did he come from ? |
Manta Rays at OTEC |
Manta Rays at OTEC - Lead Manta is at least 8' across |
Flameback Shrimp...aka Ghost Shrimp |
Menpachi O'oma |
Banded Shrimp - Suckem Up |
Spotted Eagle Ray - Suckem Up |
Spotted Eagle Ray - Suckem Up |
Commerson's Frogfish |
Commerson's Frogfish |
Commerson's Frogfish |
Surge |
Sky |
The Yacht Octopus: Two Helicopters, Two Submarines, 416 feet long, $200 million |
Hawaiian Red Swimming Crab |
Seven Eleven Crab - Hawaiian tradition says he is stained with the blood of a god who tried to grab him. |
Day Octopus |
Seconds Later - Incredible Camoflauge |
You Can't See Me ! |
Garden Eels at 120 feet |
Anthias, Excellent visibility, Eel Cove |
Me Shooting - Photo Andrew Cooper |
Eggs of the Spanish Dancer Nudibranch |
Day Octopus - Squinting from the TovaTec LED Flood Light |
Blending In - Photo Andrew Cooper |
Sun Coral, Puako |
White Tip Reef Shark Posing for a Hawaiian Cleaning Wrasse, Suckem Up |
White Tip Reef Shark Posing for a Hawaiian Cleaning Wrasse, Suckem Up |
Prince Valium, a "Sleepy Sponge Crab". |
Siphonophore - Blackwater Diving - Pelagic Magic |
Venus Girdle - Blackwater Diving - Pelagic Magic |
Blackwater Diving - Pelagic Magic |
Blackwater Diving - Pelagic Magic |
Salp - Blackwater Diving - Pelagic Magic |
Blackwater Diving - Pelagic Magic |
Lobster Larvae - Blackwater Diving - Pelagic Magic |
Not Diving Otec Today |
Oval Mushroom Coral |
Slipper Lobster |
Hawks Bill Sea Turtle - Old Airport |
Hawks Bill Sea Turtle - Old Airport |
Yellow Tailed FileFish |
Red Swimming Crab with Cowrie |
Memorial for the Founder of the Kona Underwater Photographic Society |
Long Finned Anthias |
Racoon Butterfly Egg Eating Madness - Eel Cove |
Spot Fin Squirrel Fish - Eel Cove |
Devil Scorpion Fish - Eel Cove |
Devil Scorpion Fish - Eel Cove |
White Mouth Moray - Eel Cove |
OTEC SILHOUETTE |
Can't figure out how to shoot my favorite butterfly, the Pyramid. OTEC. |
Hydroid... Pennaria disicha |
Don't hate me because I'm invasive...Peacock Grouper. Roi. |
False Killer Whale |
False Killer Whale -Wake Surfing |
False Killer Whale -Wake Surfing |
False Killer Whale -Wake Surfing |
Some sort of Jelly....dunno. |
Venus Girdle |
Venus Girdle |
Splendid Pebble Crab |
Flock of Eagle Rays @ 160 feet. Canon housing still functioning at 150' ! |
Fishy ! |
Hairy Yellow Hermit Crab (Aniculus maximus) - Puako @ 25 ft |
Puako |
GoldLace NudiBranch - Pentagon |
Puako Sunset |
Lined Fireworms eating fish eggs- Pherecardia striata - Puako |
Snow-goddess Nudibranch, Glossodoris poliahu - Pentagon |
The "Hump" in HumpBack |
Puako - NudiBranch dislodged by bubbles and Turtle |
Get out of my cave....NOW....camera boy.... |
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Orange Gumdrop Sea Slug - Puako Night Diving |
Sun Coral - Puako Night Diving |
ParrotFish Sleeping - Puako Night Diving |
Hawaiian Red LionFish - Puako Night Dive |
Tiger Cowrie Mantle-Puako Night Dive |
RidgeBack Slipper Lobster-Puako Night Dive |
Sky with Lobster |
Niihau/Lehua |
Niihau/Lehua |
Giant Trevally-Niihau/Lehua |
Niihau/Lehua |
Niihau/Lehua |
Niihau/Lehua |
Niihau/Lehua |
Niihau/Lehua |
Roll Out - Niihau/Lehua |
Niihau/Lehua |
2-step |
Dolphin wounded by a Cookie Cutter Shark |
Titan ScorpionFish - Kona Paradise |
Titan ScorpionFish - Kona Paradise |
Titan ScorpionFish - Kona Paradise |
Opelu Bait Ball - 2 Step |
HammerHead - Milolii |
Big Shark ! |
Commerson's FrogFish - Eel Cove |
Commerson's FrogFish - Eel Cove |
Commerson's FrogFish - Eel Cove |
Flowery Flounder - One eye tracking another diver |
Camera shy octopus |
Endemic RedStripe PipeFish with unique but unknown sponge. |
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Heller's Barracuda |
Commerson's FrogFish |
Commerson's FrogFish |
Commerson's FrogFish |
Mind the Gaps and Pukas....Viper Moray |
Yellow Margin Moray with Shrimp |
Blue Spotted Cornetfish |
Spotted Puffer |
Spotted Puffer |
Scrawled Filefish |
Scrawled Filefish |
Anemone Hermit Crab - The crab actually places the symbiots on his shell. |
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Spotted BoxFish Courting |
An Undulated Moray....not a friendly eel. |
Dolphins at OTEC |
Curious....Investigating my mouth noises and head bobbing - Dolphins at OTEC |
Dolphins at OTEC |
Dolphins at OTEC |
Dolphins at OTEC |
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Crown Jellyfish |
Crown Jellyfish |
WhiteMargin Unicorn Fish - Rare - At 130 feet South of OTEC |
WhiteMargin Unicorn Fish - Rare - At 130 feet South of OTEC |
Yet another frogfish....Kukio |
Laverne - A large resident Tiger Shark at Honokohau Harbor. Note bent dorsal. |
Friendly Mantas |
Friendly Mantas |
The Elusive Tinker's Butterfly at 156 feet. |
Drunk Octopus wants beef! |
Twin Sister Cave |
Twin Sister Cave |
Spanish Dancer Nudibranch -Twin Sister Cave |
Hairy Hermit Crab -Twin Sister Cave |
Seven Eleven Crab - Twin Sister Cave |
Crown of Thorns - OTEC Pipes |
Purple Velvet Star- Casa Cave - Big Island |
Purple Velvet Star - Casa Cave - Big Island |
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Akule Bait Ball.jpg |
Yellow Margin Moray.jpg |
RACHEL-Giant Stride.jpg |
Rachel-Eye Contact.jpg |
Cooper-Pipe Dreams.jpg |
Sky - Decompression.jpg |
Hand painted sign protesting Mikey McCrum's YouTube shark abuse video at Honokohau Harbor. Repent Mikey !!! |
Large Manta & Dennis - Vid Cap |
Me - Rachel & Sky descending |
Crown of Thorns Fisheye - Two Step Sunset, Deep |
Crown of Thorns, Fisheye Falling |
A Partridge Tuns - A speedy snail, almost as fast as an octopus - Puako Night Diving |
Newlyweds at 2 step |
Modeling at 2 step |
Skull Cave, Mark at Suck'em Up |
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Mark, diving for the mooring after losing rock, paper, scissors. |
Rare Endangered Black Coral.....surprised to find it on the Big Island. Decades ago it was sold on the road side for jewelry. |
Black Coral and Mark. |
Puako Turtle Cleaning Station |
Plenty of White Tip Sharks at Suckem Up |
White Tip Shark Bluff Charging at Puako |
Sectoral/Central Heterochromia......It is mostly a visual sport. |
Moray - Wall of Color |
Bait Ball _ Pyramid Pinnacle |
Bait Ball _ Pyramid Pinnacle |
Tinker's Butterfly - 135' Feet |
ScorpionFish-Puako 1 of 1.jpg |
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Endemic Tinker's ButterFly Fish at 141 Feet .jpg |
Scrambled Egg Nudibranch-Phyllidia varicosa 1 of 1.jpg |
Tom Smith's NudiBranch - Suckem Up |
WhiteTip-SuckemUp-HeadOn 1 of 1.jpg |
WhiteTip-SuckemUp-side 1 of 1.jpg |
WhiteTip-SuckemUp-intruder 1 of 1.jpg |
WhiteTip-SuckemUp-back 1 of 1.jpg |
SnowFlake Moray 1 of 1.jpg |
Flounder 1 of 1.jpg |
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Flounder2-SpaceShip 1 of 1.jpg |
Undulated Moray 1 of 1.jpg |
Verrills cup coral |
Verrills cup coral |
Endemic GoldLace Nudibranch Puako -Halgerda terramtuentis |
Endemic Black Coral - Antipathes griggi |
Psycho Eyes |
Spiral Wire Coral - Cirrhipathes spiralis |
Verrills cup coral |
Verrills cup coral |
Verrills cup coral |
Verrills cup coral |
Verrills cup coral |
The Naked Lady Ship Wreck |
The Naked Lady Ship Wreck |
The Naked Lady Ship Wreck |
The Naked Lady Ship Wreck |
Lantern Toby |
Kahuna NudiBranch |
Endemic Tinkers Butterfly |
Verrills cup coral -orange-corr2 1 of 2.jpg |
Me Shooting- Photo Andrew Cooper |
Crown of Thorns - Final Entry 1 of 1.jpg |
Verril's Cup Coral - Strobes to the side. |
Rachel and Sunset on the Aqua Safari |
Eel Cove Manta Dive Plankton Vortex |
Trippy Mantas |
Manta with Sucker Fish probably also a filter feeder |