Image description: Divers inspect a large purple soft coral protruding from the surrounding rock wall.
Image from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Ocean Explorer Pacific Deep Reefs Exploration 2011
Posts tagged "ocean"
Image description: This young green sea turtle swims under the Midway Island Pier in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, Hawaii.
Photo by Greg McFall, NOAA’s National Ocean Service
Image description: This picture of a juvenile boxfish was captured by a bluewater diver exploring the Celebes Sea water column.
Photo by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Image description: Nudibranch species Janolus barbarensis, as seen under the North T-Pier, Morro Bay, California.
Nudibranchs, pronounced new-duh-branks and commonly known as sea slugs, are gastropod mollusks like whelks and many other shells you find along the beach. But, nudibranchs have no shells. There are over 3,000 species of these beautiful creatures, found on seafloors all over the world.
Photo by the National Science Foundation.
