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Wonders In The Deep
The Underwater Photography
of James W Knox
Fort Jefferson - Dry Tortugas National Park 7/8/15
This set is from a trip around the wall near the fort.
Huge overspreading corals and some big fish.
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incredible markings
on this brittle star

brown porous sea rods

atlantic triggerfish

knobby brain coral
incredible colonies covering underwater foundations of the fort

queen parrotfish

sun anemone

barfin blenny

bahamian sea fan

mature hogfish
this guy was huge 3' long

sheets of symmetrical brain coral

large field of green grape alga

tiny rosy blenny

sun anemones

unidentified segmented worm

huge overspreading brain coral

porkfish

caribbean slender chiton

undersea vineyard

pretty coral with wide valleys
hosting a big anemone

blue tang
intermediate phase

lettuce sea slug

at least nine species of coral

marvelous brittle sponge
and what are those many brilliantly-colored life forms growing on the wall

blue parrotfish initial phase

queen parrotfish

warty sea rod

city of coral encrusting shelf

very small unknown blenny

gray snapper

banded-armed brittle star

giant anemone

brown zoanthid

unknown blenny

young conch

inflated sea biscuit

skeleton of inflated sea biscuit

porous sea rods

corals overspreading corals

atlantic triggerfish

ridged cactus coral
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