 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 |
 dolphinfun-quad.jpg |
 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 |
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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 |
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 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 |