🐬 Two wild bottlenose dolphins peeled off the blue and cruised straight up to my lens.
No rush, no fear — Red Sea, off Tobia Kebir.
#dolphins #scuba #redsea #bottlenose #ocean
Corneelvm
corneelvm@nostrplebs.com
npub1kdts...s440
Exploring Earth's Wonders, Above & Below 🌍
🪸 Lilac, cream and white soft corals cover the Panorama South wall from the crest down into the blue, thick enough that you struggle to see rock.
Soft corals like these carry little or no algae inside them, so instead of using sunlight they filter plankton straight out of the current.
#softcoral #redsea #safaga #underwater #scubadiving
🐠 Hundreds of orange sea goldies pour off one coral head until the reef edge glows like it's plugged in.
Scalefin anthias over the reef at Gamul Kebir, Red Sea 🌊
#anthias #redsea #scubadiving #coralreef #ocean
🐠 The exquisite butterflyfish is one of the pickiest eaters on the reef — it lives almost entirely on live coral polyps. 🪸
Filmed at Panorama South, off Safaga in the Egyptian Red Sea.
#RedSea #butterflyfish #coralreef #scuba #Egypt
👀 A whole crab is hiding in this patch of weed — bet you find it late.
Decorator spider crab, dressed in red algae, on a temperate weedy reef.
#spotthecrab #decoratorcrab #scuba #marinelife
🪸 This moray parks itself at a cleaning station like a car rolling into a wash.
Cleaner wrasse pick parasites off its skin and teeth — full reef valet service. Gamul Soraya, Red Sea.
#moray #cleanerwrasse #redsea #reef #marinelife
🐠 Look past the orange and a second school appears — silvery glassfish packed tight in the reef's shade.
These little sweepers bunch up by day for safety and drift out to feed after dark. Gamul Soraya, Red Sea.
#redsea #glassfish #scubadiving #coralreef #underwater
🔦 These golden sweepers don't build their own glow — they lift the light-making enzyme straight out of the tiny prey they swallow.
Golden sweepers (Parapriacanthus ransonneti), schooling by day 🐠
#bioluminescence #goldensweeper #redsea #marinebiology #diving
🪨 They look like two algae-crusted stones, but these are reef stonefish — the most venomous fish in the ocean.
Hiding in plain sight on the sand at Ras Abu Soma, Egypt.
#stonefish #redsea #venomous #diving #oceanlife
🐬 Bottlenose dolphins invent their own signature whistle as calves and use it like a name, even calling each other by it.
Two of them cruised past at Tobia Kebir, Red Sea 🌊
#dolphins #redsea #oceanlife #scuba #bottlenose
💙 The electric blue on this ribbontail ray isn't pigment — tiny structures in its skin bend light to make that colour glow.
Bluespotted ribbontail ray on the reef at Gamul Soraya, Red Sea.
#scubadiving #redsea #stingray #marinelife #bluespottedray
🤿 A moray eel undulated over the top of a resting octopus, body draping across those sucker rows, close enough to touch.
Neither animal broke off. Red Sea reef, Shaab Sheer.
#morayeel #octopus #redseadiving #reef #scuba
🐠 Cleaner wrasses run fixed stations on the reef, and reef fish queue up and hold still to be serviced — this porcupinefish pulled in for its turn.
Ras Abu Soma, Red Sea.
#porcupinefish #redsea #scubadiving #reef #underwatervideo
🐠 Nine seconds of fusiliers pouring over a coral wall and the school never once ran out — there was always more of it behind.
Filmed over the Acropora garden at Panorama North in the Egyptian Red Sea. 🌊
#fusilier #reddiving #redsea #reeflife #scuba
I think this is worth protecting
A single table coral, grown flat and wide enough that a whole shaded neighbourhood of fish lives in the gap beneath it 🐠 One animal, one roof.
Filmed at Panorama North in the Red Sea.
#coralreef #RedSea #scuba #tablecoral #ocean
🐠 Blue-spotted groupers all mature as females first. Some later become male. Nothing about this one tells you which stage it's at 🤿
Filmed at Ras Abu Soma, Red Sea — Cephalopholis argus, hovering over open sand.
#RedSea #Grouper #MarineBiology #ScubaDiving #Egypt
🐠 Light plays at the reef. 🌊
Filmed threading a reef crevice at Panorama Reef, Egyptian Red Sea
#wrasse #redsea #scuba #reeflife #underwater
🌡️ "Cold-blooded fish" is wrong for tuna — they hold their swimming muscle above water temperature using a heat exchanger in the blood, which is why they cruise like that.
A dogtooth tuna at Panorama South, Red Sea.
#tuna #marinebiology #redsea #scubadiving #oceanlife
😳 A fish that hides its own eyes? The crocodilefish grows fringed flaps over each pupil.
Those iris lappets shatter the eye's outline so prey never sees it coming.
#crocodilefish #redsea #marinebiology #scuba #ocean
👀 Kelp is not a plant. It is a brown alga, and its closest relatives are diatoms — single cells you need a microscope to see. It got big and complicated entirely on its own, nothing to do with anything green growing on land.
One blade, one swell, one cool-water reef.
#kelp #seaweed #marinebiology #oceanlife #scubadiving