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How the site 'Sleeping Barracuda' got its name. There were about 100 or so, just napping on the sand. Raja Ampat.
Argh! Snake! Run away! That's what the dive guide called it, so it must be right... Kri Island, Raja Ampat
Juvenile lionfish on a night dive off Kri Island
Tuna hoping to get a part in 'Hellraiser'; it certainly had me worried! Kri Island, Raja Ampat
Beautifully coloured feather star in Raja Ampat
Damn, he found me! Rob on the other side of a swim through in Raja Ampat

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Central subject that works because of the 'frame within a frame' approach
Pretty fanworm Raja Ampat
Trevally swimming through bait fish, Raja Ampat
Slipper lobster on night dive in Raja Ampat
Cave divers in Raja Ampat
The Hand Of God, or Rob Gets Squished. Rob chasing a shoal around in Raja Ampat.
Squat lobster on the Weybourne chalk gullies off the Norfolk coast, just to prove you can sometimes see things!
Burrowing anemone in the silt at the bottom of Loch Hyne
Spanish dancer from a night dive on Kapalai.
Tiny weeny baby flounder off the coast of Dorset (less than an inch long)
Jewel anemone off the Southern coast of the UK, I think it was Dorset.
Purple dragon nudibranch grazing on mixed encrusting life.
Commensal shrimp on anemone, Myanmar
Mine, all mine! Tiny spider crab standing guard over his collection of lightbulb tunicates on the Rosalie, Norfolk.
Scribbled filefish, rabbit fish and an odd bannerfish consume a helpless jellyfish alive. Isn't nature beautiful?
Fanworm feeding on Popeye's barge off Malta, not much of a wreck but a good selection of life. Taken with a Canon S70
Nice fanworm on a wreck, Gozo, Malta
So cute! Tiny little blenny snapped whilst sheltering from strong currents somewhere near Manado
Big angry crayfish, or spiny lobster
Nicely coloured nudibranch off Bunaken, Manado
Smug blenny in a hole, Bunaken, Manado.
Jellyfish seen on the safety stop after diving Barracuda point in Gozo
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