PAPUA NEW GUINEA 2005: SCUBA DIVING KAVIENG, UNDERWATER
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Kavieng aboard the Febrina, Underwater

Over the past few years, I have heard a lot about the great diving in Papua New Guinea. Unfortunately, the potential this area certainly has to offer was greatly unrealized on this particular dive trip. But as my friend Steve Drogin likes to say whenever I complain about diving: the worst day diving is better than the best day in an office cubicle. :)

There were some great dives, however. In particular, I enjoyed the San-Ko Maru, which we dove many times. I took all of my gear off at 20 meters, held my breath, and convinced Dave to photograph me in the hatch of the little submarine next to the wreck.

Dives aboard the M/V Febrina
 
Date Dive Site          Date Dive Site

07-Aug-05

01 Muckalicious   10-Aug-05 16 San-Ko Maru
  02 Lissenung   11-Aug-05 17 San-Ko Maru
08-Aug-05 03 Danny's Bommie     18 Chapman's Reef
  04 Albatross Channel     19 Taun Reef
  05 Albatross Channel     20 San-Ko Maru
  06 Nusandaula     21 San-Ko Maru
  07 Nusandaula (night)   12-Aug-05 22 Not Silvertip Reef
09-Aug-05 08 Mascotti Reef     23 Chamisso Reef
  09 Mascotti Reef     24 Talia's Reef
  10 Mascotti Channel   13-Aug-05 25 Planet Channel
  11 Ribbon Eel Patch     26 Ral Island
  12 Nusandaula     27 Ral Island
10-Aug-05 13 Nub Island   14-Aug-05 28 Echula Patch
  14 Big Fish Reef     29 Nusa Blowhole
  15 Big Fish Reef     30 Zero

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SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHS
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Pufferfish, close-up

Hermit crab eye detail

Tiny tunicates

Crocodilefish eye

Fish predation -- notice the shrimp claws sticking out of its mouth

Scrawled filefish

Lionfish

A leather coral captures a little worm


The back of a crab

School of jacks, in the current

A worm is wrapped around this poor pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus denise), which appears to be pregnant

Orangutan crab behind anemone tentacles

Juvenile anemonefish in an anemone

Twin-spot or crab-eyed goby

Squid eggs nestled inside a coral patch

Blue ribbon eel

Urchin detail

Urchin detail

A crab peeks out from inside of its sponge

A bizarre shell

A blue spotted ray

Pufferfish resting on a sponge

Mackeral

An old Japanese submarine

An old Japanese submarine

A closed-up anemone with anemonefish

Coral reef scene

Leather coral field

A tiny filefish

A blenny peeks out from a shell

This filefish holds on to a coral at night, with its mouth

A tiny filefish in front of a colorful soft coral

Soft coral, tunicates, and hiding fish

Basketstar detail

Coral polyps

Anemonefish eggs

Anemonefish aerate egs

Anemonefish aerate egs

Detail from a sea cucumber

A small damsel hides next to a soft coral

Parrotfish hiding in its mucus membrane, at night

This clam nestled in a gorgonian looks like a nudibranch

Long-nose hawkfish and gorgonian

Lettuce slug

A snake eel

A cigar jelly (Olindias), which was curled up in a little hole.

A cigar jelly (Olindias), which was curled up in a little hole

A tiny little blenny

Platyctene ctenophores, a sort of "deflated" bnethic ctenophore, extend sticky hunting strands from the safety of a host leather coral

Platyctene ctenophores, a sort of "deflated" bnethic ctenophore, extend sticky hunting strands from the safety of a host leather coral

Platyctene ctenophores, a sort of "deflated" bnethic ctenophore, extend sticky hunting strands from the safety of a host leather coral

Platyctene ctenophores, a sort of "deflated" bnethic ctenophore, extend sticky hunting strands from the safety of a host leather coral

Porcelain crab in an anemone

Coral detail

Soft coral crab

Scorpionfish detail

Scorpionfish detail

Scorpionfish detail

Orangutan crab

Orangutan crab

Orangutan crab

Abstract forms underwater

A cigar jelly (Olindias), which was curled up in a little hole.
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