One week live-aboard in the north Red Sea with friends from Dykterminalen. We went from Hurghada with Shark Point (in Ras Mohammed NP) and the famous war wreck Thistlegorm as highlights.
November 2009.
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Abudjubbe's splendour wrasse (
Cheilinus abudju...
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Christmas tree worm (
Spirobranchus giganteus)
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Sailfin tang (
Zebrasoma desjardinii)
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seasquirt
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Rock-boring urchine (
Echinometra mathaei)
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A big slipper lobster! Probably a Clam digger
...
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A big slipper lobster! Probably a Clam digger
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a lizardfish (
Synodus sp)
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goatfish (
Parupeneus sp)
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Parrotfish fin
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Arabian boxfish (
Ostracion cyanurus)
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Red Sea fire urchin (
Asthenosoma marisrubri)
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Christmastree tubeworm (
Spirobranchus giganteu...
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Divers at the wreck of Ghiannis D
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Ghiannis D
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Yellowsaddle goatfish (
Parupeneus cyklostomus)
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Overgrowth
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jellyfish
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Arabian angelfish (
Pomacanthus maculosus)
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Dunraven wreck with Giant squirrelfish (
Sargoc...
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Stonefish (
Synanceia verrucosa)
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Slingjaw wrasse (
Epibulus insidiator)
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Yellowtail barracuda (
Sphyraena flavicauda)
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Giant moray (
Gymnothorax javanicus)
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Greasy grouper (
Epinephelus tauvina)
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Striped bristletooth (
Ctenochaetus striatus)
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Rusty parrotfish, female (
Scarus ferrugineus)
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Common bigeye (
Priacanthus hamrur)
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Redbreasted splendour wrasse (
Cheilinus fascia...
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cup coral (
Tubastraea sp)
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Basket star (
Astroboa nuda)
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Piet with Potato grouper (
Epinephelus tukula) ...
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soft corals with Jewel fairy basslet (
Pseudant...
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Fan corals with Jewel fairy basslet (
Pseudanth...
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Slingjaw wrasse (
Epibulus insidiator)
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Noded horny coral (
Melithaea splendens)
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One of the famous motorbikes on Thistlegorm
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Inside one of the cargo holds
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view through a porthole
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An imploded gas tank
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Sailfin tang (
Zebrasoma desjardinii)
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anemone
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encusting sponge on ship plate
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juvenile grouper resting in a sponge
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Ringed chromodorid (
Goniobranchus annulata)
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Indian lionfish (
Pterois miles)
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manufactured 1929, sunk 1941
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Red sea bannerfish (
Heniochus intermedius)
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one of the guns of Thistlegorm and yours truly
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Napoleonfish (
Cheilinus undulatus)
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underwater gangway
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Royal angelfish (
Pygoplites diacanthus)
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Bird wrasse (
Gomphosus caeruleus)
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Longnose parrotfish (
Hipposcarus harid)
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Lunar fusilier (
Caesio lunaris)
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Indian lionfish (
Pterois miles)
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coral guard crab (
Trapetzia sp)
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Coral scorpionfish (
Sebastapistes cyanostigma)
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Honeycomb coral (
Favia sp) with polyps out
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Orangehead butterflyfish (
Chaetodon larvatus)
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Yellowmouth moray (
Gymnothorax nudivomer)
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Red Sea anemonefish (
Amphiprion bicinctus)
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Honeycomb coral (
Favia sp) with polyps withdra...
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Red Sea anemonefish (
Amphiprion bicinctus)
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flowerpot coral (
Goniopora sp)
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Jewel fairy basslet (
Pseudanthias squamipinnis)
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Arabian Picasso triggerfish (
Rhinecanthus assa...
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Two large Giant morays (
Gymnothorax javanicus)
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Blacktip grouper (
Epinephelus asciatus)
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Dotted parrotfish (
Calotomus viridecens)
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Jewel fairy basslet (female) (
Pseudanthias squ...
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plankton feeding, Jewel fairy basslet (
Pseudan...
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Jewel fairy basslet (male) (
Pseudanthias squam...
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Indo-Pacific sergeant (
Abudefduf vaigiensis)
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coral polyps
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Longnose hawkfish (
Oxycirrhites typus)
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Longnose hawkfish (
Oxycirrhites typus)
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Clown sand wrasse (
Coris aygula), juvenil
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Redback butterflyfish (
Chaetodon paucifasciatu...
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Long-arm cleaner shrimp (
Ancylomenes longicarp...
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Speckeled sandperch (
Parapercis hexophtalma)
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classic view of a pair of Masked butterflyfish
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Bluethroat triggerfish (
Sufflamen albicaudatus)
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Lemon goby (
Gobidon citrinus)
