Indo Pacific Giant Sponges

Camera pushes up and over a coral head with healthy Acropora sp., table corals and branching corals and a variety of tropical fish, backlit by the sun, Komodo National Park, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean

Colourful soft corals on a coral head, camera pans up to reveal a canyon in the background, Komodo National Park, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean

Healthy soft corals and sponges with tropical fish swarming around them with a white sandy bottom, Komodo National Park, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean

Forward push toward two different species of giant sponge, the orange Clathria flabellifera in the foreground and the barrel sponge, Xestospongia testudinaria, in the background, Komodo National Park, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean

A school of yellow stripe scad parts around the camera, Selaroides leptolepis, Cenderawasih Bay, Central Papua, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean

A school of yellowstripe scad swims past the camera, Selaroides leptolepis, Cenderawasih Bay, Central Papua, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean