Photos taken at Rangiroa, French Polynesia, an atoll roughly 200 miles NE of Tahiti. I stayed at Hotel Kia Ora, and dove with Top Dive. All underwater photos were taken with a Canon 5D Mark II (21 megapixels) inside an Aquatica housing with dual Inon Z-240 strobes. You can also see a few short unedited HD video clips from the trip, including part of a drift dive, shot with this camera at http://vimeo.com/bruceyates/videos .
Hawksbill Turtle
A hawksbill turtle heads for the surface for a breath of air.
Hawksbill turtle heads for the surface for a breath of air.
Turtles are often followed by algae-eaters such as tangs and surgeonfi ...
Stephanie and Sebastian at the end of another great dive!
A silvertip shark (6-7 ft) swims overhead.
A beautiful silvertip shark (7 ft) swims by a group of awestruck diver ...
A silvertip shark (6-8 ft) swims by as Frank and Claudia (from Germany ...
A silvertip shark (6 ft) swims by Marco, our dive guide. Marco has a ...
Cyrille watches calmly as a silvertip shark bites off his left leg. ( ...
A pair of wild Bottlenose dolphins stop to interact with my two dive b ...
The same pair of wild Bottlenose dolphins interacting with my two dive ...
The same pair of wild Bottlenose dolphins.
Here, the two bottlenose dolphins do acrobatics with Stephanie, our di ...
The same pair of wild Bottlenose dolphins - just a few feet from me.
A different pair of wild Bottlenose dolphins swam by us with a baby (a ...
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