A camouflaged baby Octopus hiding in the bottom of a Barrel Sponge.
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Bob Shaffer swims with a pair of Caribbean Squid.
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Here is a rare Blue Trumpetfish.
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John at work.
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A blue-eyed Hermit Crab looking at you.
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A large Loggerhead Turtle diving with Scott Calhoun.
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Glenda Gabriel admiring a Lionfish.
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A Box Crab with all of his camouflage attached to the back of his shell.
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A Blue Scrawled Filefish who loves to accompany all the divers on their adventures.
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A "flight" of Spotted Eagle Rays
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Diane Ens and Kyle Keays swimming with one of our "pet" hawksbill turtles.
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A trio of Caribbean Reef Squid.
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Kyle Keays videos the reef with his mask / camera / movie light set-up.
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Alex Powers photographing the reef.
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Gordy's Angels...Gordy Brenne and his daughters Phebe and Lara.
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Kara and Rick Lackey admiring a Queen Conch.
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John, Rick and Kara Lackey pose for a fun family photo!
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The "Christmas Tree" is always decorated with huge schools of fish.
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Danette and Scott Calhoun swimming with one of our "local" pets.
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A close-up of one of our Caribbean Reef Squids
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Julia White enjoys a little time with a friendly octopus.
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A Whale Shark feeding on microscopic plankton which looks like smoke at the surface. The summer months are when they move into our area.
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The giant mouth of a Whale Shark. For perspective, notice the diver in the upper right corner.
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An example of one of our Scorpionfish and how well he disguises himself.
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Casper our giant Ghost Ray.
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Nick Morrison enjoys a swim with a Hawksbill turtle
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Talon Singletary and Megan Mills found a free-swimming Seahorse and were able to find it a new home.
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David Everett exploring the shallow reef with its thousands of resident reef fish at Calica.
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A Cowfish with her hitch-hiking Remora.
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This is a Blue Scrawled Filefish who loves to tag along with our divers on almost every dive in Paamul.
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David Everett and a friendly Hawksbill turtle enjoying a swim down the reef.
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Cindy Ballard is CAREFULLY getting a close-up photo of one of our resident Green Moray eels.
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Larka Tetens executes a close up study of a Lionfish. The Lionfish is an invasive species in the Caribbean and considered a threat to the reef system.
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Danny Ballard photographs one of our reef residents. A large Green Moray Eel.
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Marcelo Loria instructs students why there is a closed season on lobsters by showing the eggs(orange) on the bottom of this female lobster.
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A beautiful and reclusive Bat-Winged crab.
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Debra Everett watches a Whale Shark feeding while he is migrating through our area.
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A Loggerhead turtle who is in the area in search of the local "girls".
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Cowfish at Night
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On 11/11/11 - 11 divers dive to 11 feet 11 inches for 11 minutes to carry on a tradition. Just wait 'till 12/12/12 !
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White-spotted Filefish
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The "Christmas Tree" with thousands of it's normal residents
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Lester Willis is eye to eye with a Green Moray Eel
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One of our shallow water (30-40 feet) walls
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Colorful Lizardfish at rest
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A baby Queen Angelfish
John Everett hand feeding a Blue Scrawled Filefish
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Lester Willis swimming among the Vase sponges along the reef
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A yellow Seahorse wrapped around a red sponge in front of a blue Velvet Lace sponge
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Glenda Gabriel is eye to eye with a Scorpeonfish
Silke Jehle photographing a yellow "Seahorse"
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An Arrow Crab and an Anemone inside a Velvet Lace sponge
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Alfonso Guzman introduces a group of divers to the thousands of reef fish that cover the shallow wall
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One of our favorite dive couples, Olen and Kelli Deadmond, enjoying their dive on the Pedregal Wall
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Niki Therrien with a treasure from the deep.
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Kathy Kingsley does a close-up study of the Scorpionfish
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A Spotted Eagle Ray surveys the reef and our divers
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Two Resort divers (with their instructors) find out how much they have been missing.
Lindsey Brown attempts to swim home with an antique stone anchor
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One of our instructors, Cindy Albaugh, takes time to feed one of our "pet" Filefish
Marcelo Loria with one of his Octopus dive buddies
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Lonnie Robin visits with a "sleeping" Nurse Shark
An orange Seahorse
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One of our many international divers, Marlene Chamonard, makes friends with a turtle.
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Erin and Barrett Thomas enjoying their dives.
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One of our Instructors, Glenda Gabriel enjoying a relaxing dive.
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Robin Tate visits with one of our friendly octopus.
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John is playing with one of his friends from the Paamul Shallow Wall dive.
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Gary Cohen swims with one of our local "pets".
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Cindy Ballard with a new friend who came out to visit with her.
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Cindy Albaugh and one of our yearly guest Loggerhead turtles who came down here to meet our girl turtles.
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A West Indian Chank Conch lays her eggs and secures them to a coral branch to "incubate".
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Kathy Kingsley photographing an egg case from a West Indian Chank Conch.
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Danette Calhoun displays the gentle Bat-wing crab. Notice the BATMAN design on his shell.
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A giant Anemone inside a colorful red sponge
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A large Parrotfish swims by to keep an eye on us.
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A Seahorse hiding among the coral stems.
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John Everett GENTLY holding a very relaxed Scorpionfish!
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The beautiful Manta Ray
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Diving with the largest fish in the world...The Whale Shark.
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A Caribbean Squid.
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Playing around with a friendly Remora.
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