Hawkfish typically perch on surfaces (like this green sponge) that give them a good view.
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Hawkfish...unable to decide what to make of me.
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Hawkfish (left) and a young pufferfish.
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A tiny Emperor shrimp (1/2-inch long) living on a whip coral.
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Spanish Dancer (a type of large nudibranch) eggs, which are laid in ribbons. This rose-looking bunch of eggs is roughly the size of a baseball.
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In this closeup, you can see that the ribbon contains thousands of eggs, held together by a translucent gel.
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A football-sized cuttlefish, relative to squid and octopus, with tentacles hanging down in somewhat normal fashion...but she can change the color and texture of these tentacles (and the rest of her body for that matter).
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When I arrived, this cuttlefish was attempting to scare away another diver (above).
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A football-sized cuttlefish (related both to squid and octopus) contorts her tentacles to look as menacing as possible because she has eggs nearby.
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I only used my Canon 8-15mm circular fisheye lens on one dive - with the school of millions of sardines. Here, David hovers beneath the sardines, as well as a boat on the surface above.
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David and Lindsey on the last dive of the trip, watching tiny blue fish that live in a hard coral.
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Thousands of small fish (in particular gold and orange anthias) flourish in the hard corals near a wall dropoff
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Gold anthias living at the edge of a wall
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This thin sponge looked like it was made from paper
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School of saltwater catfish in foreground
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