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Congratulations Ethan Daniels on being named Photographer of the Week
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Ethan Daniels
from Koror, Palau
Occupation: Biologist, photographer
Years diving: 12
Certification: PADI OWSI |
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Dive Site: Wreck of the Iro
Location: Palau Lagoon
Film: Fuji Provia
Camera: Nikonos V
Settings: 1/60th at f-11, natural light
Description: The Iro is a Japanese oil tanker sunk during operation Desecrate I, March 31, 1944. This is the forward kingpost on this 475-foot tanker. |
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Dive Site: Lighthouse Channel
Location: Malakal Harbor, Palau
Marine Life ID: Oxycirrhites typus, the longnose hawkfish
Film: Fuji Velvia
Camera: Nikon N90 in an Aquatica 90 housing with two Sea & Sea Sub 30 strobes
Settings: 1/60th at f-22, full power with strobes
Description: Longnose hawkfish are not easily found compared with the rest of their family. They are a major predator of tiny invertebrates amongst the gorgonians andsoft corals in which they live. |
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Dive Site: German Channel
Location: Palau, barrier reef
Marine Life ID: Stegastoma varium, leopard or zebra shark
Film: Fuji Velvia
Camera: Nikonos V, 20 mm Nikonos lens, one Sea & Sea 120 strobe
Settings: 1/60th at f-8, full power
Description: These two leopard sharks were exhausted from their premating ritual. The female is in the foreground and the male is still hanging on to her pectoral finin the background. An amazing sight. |
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Dive Site: Blue Corner
Location: Palau, barrier reef
Marine Life ID: Aetobatis narinari, the spotted eagle ray
Film: Fuji Velvia
Camera: Nikonos V, 15 mm Nikonos lens
Settings: 1/60th at f-22, natural light
Description: Eagle rays are not uncommon throughout the Indo-Pacific region, but getting close to them takes a calm, relaxed diver. |
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Dive Site: Fern's Wall
Location: Palau, barrier reef
Marine Life ID: Diploastrea heliopora coral head
Film: Fuji Velvia
Camera: Nikonos V, 15 mm Nikonos lens
Settings: 1/60th at f-11, one Sea & Sea 120 strobe on full power.
Description: Scleractinian corals are beginning to rebound in Palau from the devestating coral bleaching event that occured during the '97/'98 El Nino. |
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Dive Site: Harbor Reef
Location: Malakal Harbor, Palau
Marine Life ID: Hoplophrys oatesii, the soft coral spider crab, on Dendronephtya soft coral.
Film: Fuji Velvia
Camera: Nikon N90 in an Aquatica 90 Housing
Settings: 1/60th at f-22, two Sea & Sea Sub 30 strobes on full power
Description: These tiny spider crabs are some of the most intricately evolved crustaceans. They actually mimic their host, Dendronepthya corals. |
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Dive Site: German Channel
Location: Palau, barrier reef
Marine Life ID: Manta birostris
Film: Fuji Velvia
Camera: Nikonos V with 20mm Nikonos lens, one Sea & Sea 120 strobe
Settings: 1/60th at f-11, strobe on full power
Description: Mantas tend to feed at this particular dive site late in the day on an incoming tide, especially the first quarter of the year around the full and newmoons. |
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Dive Site: Malakal Harbor
Location: Palau
Marine Life ID: Hypselodoris bullocki, a relatively rare nudibranch
Film: Fuji Velvia
Camera: Nikon N90 in an Aquatica 90 Housing, two sub 30 Sea & Sea strobes
Settings: 1/60th at f-22, strobes on full
Description: The mucky, dingy places within the lagoon harbor many of the more cryptic and beautiful smaller organisms that live in Palau, such as this nudibranch. |
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Dive Site: Turtle Cove
Location: Palau barrier reef
Marine Life ID: Laticauda colubrina, banded sea snake
Film: Fuji Velvia
Camera: Nikonos V, 15mm lens, one Sea & Sea 120 strobe
Settings: 1/60th at f-16, strobe on full
Description: Occasionally a sea snake is spotted hunting or resting along one of the barrier reef walls. Usually, they are found commonly within the lagoon andharbor, hunting on shallow reef flats or sleeping along the sides of the islands. |
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