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New
Zealand Image Gallery 4
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Electric
Ray   
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The
stingrays and eagle rays that New Zealand divers often encounter normally
swim away when approached but this electric ray (Torpedo fairchildi)
swam around us for some time and allowed me to take lots of photos
of it whilst carefully keeping myself out of zapping range.
Nikon F3, Aquatica 3 housing, 60mm micro Nikkor lens, Ikelite Ai/n
strobe, 1/60s, Fuji Velvia film.
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Blue-eyed
Triplefin
You
really need to plant yourself on the bottom and focus on teeny stuff
if you're going to to make friends with one of these blue-eyed triplefin
(Notoclinops segmentatus). Cute or what?
Nikon F3, Aquatica 3 housing, 60mm micro Nikkor lens, Ikelite Ai/n
strobe, 1/60s, Fuji Velvia film.
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Zoanthids
These
Zoanthids are normally found growing in clusters on vertical walls.
Here however I think they have colonised a dead gorgonian skeleton
branching out from deeper wall at the Poor Knights Islands.
Nikon F3, Aquatica 3 housing, 60mm micro Nikkor lens, Ikelite Ai/n
strobe, 1/80s, Fuji Velvia film.
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Mosaic
Moray
With
those big sharp teeth he does look kind of mean doesn't he? Truth
is, these Mosaic Morays (Enchelycore
ramosa) are no more likely to viciously
bite you than my cat is.
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Nikon
F3, Aquatica 3 housing, 60mm
micro Nikkor lens, Ikelite Ai/n strobe, 1/80s, Fuji Velvia film.
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John
21°C
blue water makes diving at the Poor
Knights in March an absolute pleasure. The thing in the foreground
is NOT a whale, it's John.
Nikon
F3, Aquatica 3 housing, 16mm
fisheye Nikkor lens, Ikelite Ai/n and Sea&Sea YS50 strobes,
1/60s, Fuji Provia film.
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Crinoid
Crinoid
or feather star snapped at the Poor
Knights Islands.
Nikon F3, Aquatica 3 housing, 60mm micro Nikkor lens, Ikelite Ai/n
and Sea&Sea YS50 strobes, 1/60s, Fuji Velvia film.
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John Dory
John
Dory snapped at the Poor Knights
Islands.
Nikon F3, Aquatica 3 housing, 60mm micro Nikkor lens, Ikelite Ai/n
strobe, 1/80s, Fuji Velvia film.
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Heliocidaris
tuberculatus
One
of several urchin species which occur at the Poor
Knights Islands.
Nikon F3, Aquatica 3 housing, 60mm micro Nikkor lens, Ikelite Ai/n
and Sea&Sea YS50 strobes, 1/60s, Fuji Sensia 100 film.
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Bronze
whaler shark
Poor
Knights Islands bronzie snapped at the Cream Gardens.
Nikon F3, Aquatica 3 housing, 60mm micro Nikkor lens, Ikelite Ai/n
and Sea&Sea YS50 strobes, 1/60s, Fuji Velvia 50 film.
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