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| Nurse Shark swimming among the reef |
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| Getting close to the guy. He's just swimming around paying no attention to us. |
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| Diver among the reef. |
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| Pretty fish. |
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| Following the leader through the reef |
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| Shark swimming up on some of our divers. |
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| Nurse shark swimming along below us. |
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| Nurse sharks are pack animals? |
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| Such docile creatures. |
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| Ascending for our safety stop. Fish wants to join. |
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| Some beautiful coral. |
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| Here come our friends. |
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| Look sinister coming at you like this but aint no thing. |
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| These sharks have these little companions that swim along with them. |
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| We are going down to group in the sand and this guy was just coming along for the fun. Those are his companions behind him. |
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| The nurse sharks in the sand. They rolled around like a dog and played in the sand. It was pretty cool to see them act like man's best friend. |
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| Shark just chilling in the sand. |
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| Hello eel friend! |
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| School of fish as we swim through. |
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| There were tons of different colored fish all through the dives. |
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| Our leader found a pipe fish |
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| Think he is trying to camouflage himself |
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| Eel scaring some fish while a ray tries to get away. |
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| Fish hiding in the shade of a small plant. |
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| Expansive reef before us. |
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| Our guide in Hol chan petting a shark |
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| FEEDING FRENZY!!!!!! |
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| Now the rays are getting in on the feeding tube (the guides put chum in these perforated tubes to make the animals work to get the food to give the people more time to see them.) |
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| Horseshoe crab. |
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| My bro descending with us. |
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| This nurse shark was swimming with us to the edge of the reef. |
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| Me watching a reef shark coming at us as our guide points to it. |
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| There it is coming over to say hey. |
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| He didnt stay around as long as the nurse sharks usually did, guess he was patrolling for food and I was a little more than he wanted to bite off. |
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| This dude just snuck up on us. |
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| Everyone swims away as we chill with our new turtle friend. |
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| Gorgeous fish among seeming desolation of the ocean floor. |
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| Time to feed some more nurse sharks. I guess they do their part to make sure the sharks dont starve. |
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| Cute fish coming to feed off the small morsels that sharks emit when chewing. |
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| Jeff not losing his hand petting a shark. |
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| Shark skin. Is really beautiful up close. Glistens a little bit (is a little rough to the touch). |
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| Jeff rubbing the sharks and telling him hes a good boy (see what I mean about the dogs of the sea) |
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| This HUGE nurse shark came to eat and our guide tried to pick him up. Dont get between a fatty and their food, cause it wont work out the way you want (he was unable to get the shark away from the food so he refocused his attention on smaller targets). |
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| So he separated the sharks companion and brought him over to us. |
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| They find shelter with bigger hosts. They are weird/cool looking creatures as the top of their head if flat and contoured, I guess to clean shark skin as they swim along their body. |
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| After tubby was done feeding, our guide tried again to rub his belly. This time he succeeded. |
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| Nice snippet of the coral and fish we saw along the diving. |
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| Swimming through some rock tunnels. |
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| Saw another turtle just cruising through the water. |
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| Swimming along the top of the reef and of course a nurse shark comes and joins us. |
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| Found another eel. |
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| Think this was right after our guide fed the eel a lionfish. Our guide earlier in the dive speared a lionfish (trying to eliminate the invasive species from their waters one at a time) and then fed it to this eel who gobbled it right up. |
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| Close up of our shark companions on the shark skin. |
