A bunch of very happy divers returned from Albatross & Kavin II yesterday! With the current still coming in for the first dive, Albatross was the obvious choice. A blue-spotted stingray, several white tip and grey reef sharks, as well as a big school of batfish and some Spanish mackerel kept the divers entertained. Unfortunately, the current changed towards the end of the dive and after an hour surface interval, the second chosen spot Danny's Bommie was so murky that vis had dropped to only 15m. Not good enough, so the divers went over to Kavin II instead. The trusty Pygmy seahorse still sits on his fan in 17m of water, but no photographers in this group, so after a quick look, they went on along the wall. Photographers can't seem to be torn away from the Pygmy, missing everything else around them. They would have missed the turtle and a school of 7 bumphead parrot fish!! That's not a big number for a school of those parrot fish, but apparently what they lacked in numbers, they made up for in size. Sandy reckons they were HUGE!!
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| Bumphead parrot fish at Sipadan. Photo courtesy of our good friends Stella and Yogi Freund, who came across this large school during their WWF Coral Triangle Photo Expedition in 2009/2010. Check out their amazing journey on http://blogs.panda.org/coral_triangle/about/. You can also see more of the brilliant photos that Yogi takes on http://www.jurgenfreund.com/ |
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