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Images in this Gallery
A - B
A coral reef with transect lines laid outA diver and Pacific white-sided dolphin caught in a driftnet
A diver and Pacific white-sided dolphin drowned in a driftnet
A diver on the Rainbow Warrior wreck
A diver with a sea bird caught in a driftnet
A Pacific white-sided dolphin caught in a Japanese driftnet
A Pacific white-sided dolphin caught in Japanese driftnet
A Pacific white-sided dolphin in a driftnet and a Greenpeace inflatable
A Polychaete worm in the sea
A school of Snapper on a coral reef
A sleeping spotty fish on the Rainbow Warrior wreck
A Sooty shearwater caught in a driftnet
A Squid caught in a driftnet
A Sunfish caught in a Japanese driftnet
A Tuna crowd caught in a driftnet
Albacore tuna caught in Japanese driftnet
An Oceanic white-tipped shark caught in a Japanese driftnet
Angas's egg shell
Angel wing
Angled wedge shell
Apple Sea Cucumber
Apricot nudibranch
Arabic volute
Ark shell
Ascidians (pink) and calcereous sponges (white)
Ascidians and anemones
Ascidians and bryozoans
Asian mussel
Auger shell
Australian trumpet
Banded ear shell
Banded Kokopu
Banded nudibranch
Banded periwinkle
Banded Wrasse
Barracuda schooling
Beaded top shell
Bean cowrie
Bearded Scorpionfish
Bigeye
Bigeye Snapper
Biscuit sea star
Biscuit Star
Black Angelfish
Black Coral
Black nerita
Black Ribbon Moray Eel
Black sponge
Black-edged limpet
Blenny
Blood and codium weed
Blood weed
Blue cod
Blue Cod with diver
Blue Cushion Star
Blue Discus fish
Blue eyed triplefin in red weed
Blue half crab
Blue Moki
Blue mussel
Blue red weed
Blue Shark
Blue shark caught in a driftnet
Blue shark caught in a Japanese driftnet
Blue shark caught in driftnet
Blue-eyed triplefin
Blue-spotted Spinefoot
Blue-spotted Stingray
Bluestreak Cleaner wrasse
B - C
Bluff oysterBluish top shell
Bottlenose dolphins with cloud and boat reflections
Bottlenosed dolphin
Bottlenosed dolphin jumping
Bottlenosed dolphin tail
Bottlenosed dolphins
Brain coral
Brittle Star
Broad squid
Brown bubble shell
Brown leather seaweed
Brown olive shell
Brown periwinkle
Bubble coral
Bubble coral and Frogspawn coral
Bull kelp
Butterfly chiton
Butterfly chiton internal valves
Butterfly Perch
Button polyps
Cake Urchin
Calcereous of flask sponge
Calcereous or Flask sponge
Calcereous or Flask sponges
Calcereous sponge
Calcereous sponges
Cally sponge
Carpet shark
Carrier shell
Cask shell
Cat's eye shell
Cave limpet
Cheeseman's trophon
Chiton
Circular saw shell
Circular slipper shell
Close up of Albacore tuna eye caught in driftnet
Close up of Pacific white-sided dolphin caught in driftnet
Close-up of a squid mouth
Clown nudibranch
Clown nudibranch laying eggs
Clownfish
Clownfish in a Sun Anemone
Clownfish in an Anemone
Clownfish in anemone
Coarse Dosina
Codium weed on stone
Comb Sand Star
Comb Sand Star upside down
Comet Goldfish
Common jellyfish or Moon Jelly
Common octopus
Common sea anemones
Common sea anemones and red algae
Common triplefin
Cook's turban
Copperband Butterflyfish
Coral reef tank
Coral scene
Coralline algae
Corals anemones and polyps
Corrosion of aluminium on the Rainbow Warrior wreck
Crayfish in a pipe on the Rainbow Warrior wreck
Crested Blenny
Crinoids and Featherstars
Crown of Thorns Starfish
Cushion seastar
Cushion Star
C - F
Cushion star upside down with stomach extendedCusp shell
Cuttlefish
Dahlia sea anemone
Dark rock shell
Date mussel
Dawn murex
Deep water Venus
Dentate limpet
Devil's Hand Leather coral, Mushroom anemones, Button polyps
Diadema urchin
Diver above sponges giving the 'OK' signal
Diver and a male Sandager Wrasse
Diver and an old anchor
Diver by underwater wall
Diver in light rays
Diver looking at gauges in green water
Diver looking through hole in wreck of Rainbow Warrior
Diver next to gorgonian covered wall
Diver next to Taioma shipwreck covered in anemones
Diver on Rainbow Warrior wreck
Diver on Taioma, tug boat looking at crayfish
Diver on Waikato wreck
Diver photographing Leatherjackets
Diver silhouette
Diver swimming over yellow sponges
Diver watching Red Moki
Diver with a large jellyfish
Diver with a Snapper and an Eagle ray
Diver with a Wandering anemone
Diver with an Eagle ray
Diver with kelp and sponges
Diver with Macrocystis kelp
Diver with Red Moki
Diver with Sandager's wrasse
Diver with Sandagers Wrasse
Diver with sea urchins and orange ascidians
Diver with seven-armed sea star
Diver with Snapper
Diver with snapper doing the 'OK' signal
Diver with squid
Diving looking at Gorgonian fans
Dog's foot cockle
Dwarf Hawkfish
Dwarf Scorpionfish
Eagle Ray
Ecklonia holdfasts with orange bryozoans
Electric Yellow Cichlid
Elegant Venus
Encrusted limpet
Fan shell
Feathery sea hare
Felaniella
Female Giant Boarfish
Female leatherjacket
Female Red pigfish
Female Sandager's wrasse
File shell
Fine Dosinia
Fine wentletrap
Finger sponge
Fire brick sea star
Firebrick Seastar
Fish skeleton
Flame angel
Flapjack seaweed
Forster Hawkfish
Freshwater Angelfish
Freshwater crayfish
F - L
Frilled VenusFront of boat
Gari lineolata
Gem nudibranch
Gem nudibranch and orange ascidians
Geoduck
Giraffe Cichlid
Goatfish
Goatfish at night
Goatfish barbels out feeding
Golden Limpet
Golden oyster
Golden Snapper
Golden volute
Golfball sponge
Gorgonian fans
Granose turban
Green chiton
Green sea anemone
Green seaweed
Green Star Polyps
Green top shell
Green-lipped mussel
Grey Moray eel
Grey Moray eels
Grey side-gilled slug
Grey sponge
Grooved limpet
Hairy mussel
Hairy sea hare
Hairy trumpet
Half-banded perch
Hammer coral
Hat urchin
Hawksbill turtle
Hawksbill turtles mating
Hectors dolphin
Helmet shell
Hermit crab
Holdfasts
Horn shell
Horny sponge
Horse Eye Jack
Horse mussel
Hydroid spawning
Jason nudibranch
Jason's nudibranch
Jellyfish
Jewel anemones on the Rainbow Warrior wreck
Jewel Fairy Basslet
John Dory
Juvenile Broad squid
Kelp
Kelp with bryozoan
Kelpfish
Kingfish
Knobbed top shell
Knobbed whelk
Knobbly sea hare
Koi carp
Lace cockle
Lance mactra
Large coastal octopus
Large dog cockle
Large myadora
Large rockpool sea anemone
Large scorpion fish on the Rainbow Worrior wreck
Large siphon limpet
Large trophon
L - O
Large trough shellLarge wedge shell
Lavender Lizardfish
Leather coral
Leather coral and Vlamingi Tang
Leatherjacket
Leathery slug
Legs of seven-armed sea star
Lemon berthellina
Lemon nudibranch
Lessonia kelp
Lined whelk
Lionfish
Lionfish in a shipwreck
Little black mussel
Little sea hare
Little sea hares mating
Lobster
Long Jawed Squirrelfish
Long trough shell
Long-tailed Stingray
Lord Howe Island Coralfish
Malawi Blue Cichlid
Male and female Goatfish
Male Banded Wrasse
Male Goatfish
Male Red pigfish
Male Sandager's wrasse
Male Yellow-black Triplefin spawning
Manta Ray and diver
Manta ray and snorkeller
Manta Ray silhouette
Marblefish
Micromolluscs
Mix of red, green and brown seaweeds
Morning star shell
Morose nudibranch on bryozoans
Mosaic Moray eel
Mottled brittle star
Mottled Brittlestar
Mottled triplefin
Mud snail
Mudflat top shell
Mushroom leather coral
Mushroom leather coral 0
Muted tritonia nudibranch
Napoleon Wrasse
Naso Blonde Tang
Naso Blonde Tang & Longnose Unicorn Tang
Necklace shell
Neptunes necklace
Nesting mussel
Noble Chiton
Northern Scorpionfish
Nudibranch
Nudibranch on a Red Sponge
Nudibranch on Red sponge
Nudibranch spawn coil
Nut shell
Oblique-swimming Blenny
Oblong Venus
Octagonal murex
Olive shell
Opal top shell
Orange and yellow sponges
Orange cup sponge
Orange Cushion Star
Orange encrusting sponge
Orange flatworm
O - S
Orange Sea StarOrange Seastar
Orange sponge
Orange urchin
Ornate Ghost Pipefish
Ornate limpet
Ostrich foot
Oval trough shell
Oyster borer
Oyster borer egg capsules
Pacific oyster
Paddle crab
Pagoda shell
Pair of cushion sea stars
Pair of fan shells
Pair of Hairy trumpet shells
Palmer's sea urchin
Paper nautilus
Paua
Pennant fish
Pink and cream jewel sea anemones
Pink and yellow sponge
Pink jewel sea anemones
Pink sunset shell
Pink tower shell
Pipi
Porae
Porcupinefish
Pufferfish
Pupa
Purple cockle
Purple rock crab
Purple sponge
Purple sunset shell
Purple-mouthed whelk
Queen scallop
Radiate limpet
Rails on Rainbow Warrior wreck
Ram's horn shell
Razor mussel
Red Coral
Red hermit crab inside hairy trumpet
Red hermit crab inside hairy trumpet shell
Red Lizardfish
Red Moki
Red Pigfish
Red rock crab
Red sea star on coralline algae
Red Seastar
Red seaweed
Red Triangle crab with purple claw
Red-banded Perch
Red-bellied newt movement
Red-lined bubble shell
Reef Octopus
Reef octopus with eggs
Ribbed mussel
Ribbed slipper shell
Ribbed Venus
Ribbon Kelp
Ringed Dosinia
Rock borer
Rock oyster
Salps
Sandstar on orange encrusting sponge
Scallop
Scaly-headed triplefin
Scarlet Wrasse
School of Blue Maomao
S - S
School of Jack mackerelSchool of Kahawai
School of Sweep
School of Trevally feeding
School of Two-spot Demoiselle
Schoolmaster in Soft coral
Scimitar mactra
Scorpionfish
Sea anemones on the Rainbow Warrior wreck
Sea cucumber on coralline algae
Sea hare
Sea Horse
Sea Perch
Sea urchin barren
Sea urchin shell
Sea urchin showing teeth
Seaweed
Seven-armed sea star
Seven-armed star underneath
Shark's teeth
Sharp-nosed pufferfish
Shield shell
Shining sunset shell
Shipworm burrows in wood
Shortfin Scorpionfish
Silver Drummer
Silver paua
Single frond
Siphon limpet
Siphon whelk
Skipjack tuna caught in a Japanese driftnet
Slender Roughy
Slit limpet
Small dog cockle
Small opal top shell
Small ostrich foot
Small tusk shell
Smooth slipper shell
Smooth slipper shells attached to Cat's eye shell
Snake Star
Snakeskin chiton
Snakestar
Snakestars on Black coral
Snapper
Snapper Biscuit
Snapper mouthing sea urchin
Snorkeller
Snorkeller by Mangrove trees
Snorkeller silhouette
Snorkeller swimming over kelp
Soft coral and anemones on the Rainbow Warrior wreck
Southern murex
Spanish Dancer
Speckled Moray eel
Speckled whelk
Spectacled Triplefin
Spengler's trumpet
Spiny murex
Spiny sea star
Spiny sea star on orange sponge
Spiny Seastar eating a sea urchin
Spiny Star
Spiny star eating gastropod
Spiny star eating paddle crab
Spiny star with blue ascidian
Splendid Ascidian
Spotted top shell
Spotty
Strawberry cockle
S - Y
Stripey MadoSun Stars
Sun stars in rock pools
Sunfish
Swollen trumpet
Tarakihi
The fin of a Pacific white-sided dolphin caught in a driftnet
The Rainbow Warrior wreck
The two Shipworm valves
The wheelhouse on the Rainbow Warrior wreck
Theora
Thorny Seahorse
Tiger Sea Cucumber
Tiger shell
Toheroa
Trevally
Trevally showing stripes
Triangle shell
Trumpet shell
Trumpet shell laying eggs
Trumpeter
Tuangi cockle
Tuatua
Tube anemone
Tube anemones
Tube sponge
Turret shell
Tusk shell
Twisted Venus
Two divers on a training course
Two-spot Demoiselle
Two-spot Demoiselle and young Sandager's Wrasse
Two-spot Demoiselle spawning
Two-spot Demoiselle spawning colours
Underwater shipwreck
Upside-down jellyfish
Urchin
Urchin with Neptune's necklace
Urchin with weed on top
Variable chiton
Variable triplefin
Verco's nudibranch
Violet shell
Virgin paua
Vlamingi Tang
Vlamingi Tang
Waratah sea anemone on green lip mussel
Wavy fan shell
Wentletrap
Wheel shell
Whelk laying egg capsules
White and pink urchin
White bubble shell
White rock shell
White sponge
White urchin
White urchin with weed on top
Wreck of tugboat Taioma
Wreck of tugboat Taioma with leatherjackets
Yellow encrusting sponge
Yellow finger sponge
Yellow foot paua
Yellow kelp anemone
Yellow Moray eel
Yellow Seastar
Yellow sponge
Yellow Tang
Young Sandager's Wrasse
