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Avid outdoorsman and underwater photographer, Barry Brown has spent the last seven years documenting life above and below water in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. Focusing on the island's coral reefs, he has worked hand-in-hand with several businesses and environmental groups, including SECORE, a marine conservation organization based in the Netherlands. His image of a research submersible was recently featured on the cover of DIVER magazine.

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Mar 8, 10     Comments Off
Rope Sponge

Rope Sponge

Hi folks, here’s another fun shot from the dive site called Red Beryl in Bonaire.  This is an incredible display of what is probably a very old and apparently a very healthy outcrop of Row Pore Rope Sponges.  Before I even snapped a photo I just sat back and tried to take it all in, I was really quite shocked at how massive this sponge was.  This rope sponge was also home to hundreds of tiny fish and who knows how many cool creatures must be under that thing as well.  There’s a big parrotfish floating on his side over to the left above the sponge and he was being cleaned by some smaller fish, it was pretty cool.  Again the best thing about diving in Bonaire is the wide variety of treasures to be found and every single dive site I really love that place!
 
Nothing else worth reporting tonight, we both worked and it was scorching hot!  Thanks for keeping in touch, you guys are wonderful, see you tomorrow, Barry
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