Today we have some underwater photos from reader Peter Klaver. His captions and IDs are indented, and you can enlarge his photos by clicking on them.
My friends and I did 5 days of scuba diving from San Pedro in Belize. The coral reefs there are beautiful and are home to many animals.
The large animals we saw most often were nurse sharks (Ginglymostoma cirratum):
They are quite tame and if we spotted them lying on the sea floor, we could move in quite close to them:
The other type of sharks we saw were reef sharks:
There were lobsters:
And turtles. I’m not 100% sure, but I thin this is a green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas):
There were rays of wildly varying size. This was a larger one:
And there were these almost entirely white fish whose name I don’t know:
Very nice photos. I’ve done a lot of diving on the Caribbean reefs of Panama, not too far away from Belize, so it all looks quite familiar. The white fish at the end is an adult male hogfish (Lachnolaimus maximus), one of the wrasse family.
Such a cool record of a great adventure!
Very interesting! I would be terrified around the sharks and stingrays though.
So would I.
Nice to see the photos though.
Lovely photos. Wow, that reef shark looks so SLEEK. Meanwhile, lobsters always look vaguely Lovecraftian to me, more so than cephalopods.
Great photos!
Wow! Thanks for these photos.
These photos are wonderful!
Yes, that looks like a Green turtle.