Mantra ray surrounded by fish.
Teira batfish swim against the current near Lady Elliot Island, Queensland.
Speckled flowery-cod.
Olive sea snake, Ashmore Reef.
School of cardinal fish swirling around a gorgonian coral garden, Ashmore Reef.
Red horned sea star starfish.
Mantra ray beneath dive boat.
Green turtle.
Threadfin butterfly fish.
Diver on an Australian Geographic Society-sponsored expedition aboard the Undersea Explorer, in the northern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland.
Minke Whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata), northern Great Barrier Reef Queensland.
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