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Ethan Daniels

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| | | **Dive Site:** Wreck of the _Iro_ **Location:** Palau Lagoon **Film:** Fuji Provia **Camera:** Nikonos V **Settings:** 1/60th at f-11, natural light **Description:** The _Iro_ is a Japanese oil tanker sunk during operation Desecrate I, March 31, 1944. This is the forward kingpost on this 475-foot tanker.| | | | **Dive Site:** Lighthouse Channel **Location:** Malakal Harbor, Palau **Marine Life ID:** Oxycirrhites typus, the longnose hawkfish **Film:** Fuji Velvia **Camera:** Nikon N90 in an Aquatica 90 housing with two Sea & Sea Sub 30 strobes **Settings:** 1/60th at f-22, full power with strobes **Description:** Longnose hawkfish are not easily found compared with the rest of their family. They are a major predator of tiny invertebrates amongst the gorgonians andsoft corals in which they live.| | | | **Dive Site:** German Channel **Location:** Palau, barrier reef **Marine Life ID:** Stegastoma varium, leopard or zebra shark **Film:** Fuji Velvia **Camera:** Nikonos V, 20 mm Nikonos lens, one Sea & Sea 120 strobe **Settings:** 1/60th at f-8, full power **Description:** These two leopard sharks were exhausted from their premating ritual. The female is in the foreground and the male is still hanging on to her pectoral finin the background. An amazing sight.| | | | **Dive Site:** Blue Corner **Location:** Palau, barrier reef **Marine Life ID:** Aetobatis narinari, the spotted eagle ray **Film:** Fuji Velvia **Camera:** Nikonos V, 15 mm Nikonos lens **Settings:** 1/60th at f-22, natural light **Description:** Eagle rays are not uncommon throughout the Indo-Pacific region, but getting close to them takes a calm, relaxed diver.| | | | **Dive Site:** Fern's Wall **Location:** Palau, barrier reef **Marine Life ID:** Diploastrea heliopora coral head **Film:** Fuji Velvia **Camera:** Nikonos V, 15 mm Nikonos lens **Settings:** 1/60th at f-11, one Sea & Sea 120 strobe on full power. **Description:** Scleractinian corals are beginning to rebound in Palau from the devestating coral bleaching event that occured during the '97/'98 El Nino.| | | | **Dive Site:** Harbor Reef **Location:** Malakal Harbor, Palau **Marine Life ID:** Hoplophrys oatesii, the soft coral spider crab, on Dendronephtya soft coral. **Film:** Fuji Velvia **Camera:** Nikon N90 in an Aquatica 90 Housing **Settings:** 1/60th at f-22, two Sea & Sea Sub 30 strobes on full power **Description:** These tiny spider crabs are some of the most intricately evolved crustaceans. They actually mimic their host, Dendronepthya corals.| | | | **Dive Site:** German Channel **Location:** Palau, barrier reef **Marine Life ID:** Manta birostris **Film:** Fuji Velvia **Camera:** Nikonos V with 20mm Nikonos lens, one Sea & Sea 120 strobe **Settings:** 1/60th at f-11, strobe on full power **Description:** Mantas tend to feed at this particular dive site late in the day on an incoming tide, especially the first quarter of the year around the full and newmoons.| | | | **Dive Site:** Malakal Harbor **Location:** Palau **Marine Life ID:** Hypselodoris bullocki, a relatively rare nudibranch **Film:** Fuji Velvia **Camera:** Nikon N90 in an Aquatica 90 Housing, two sub 30 Sea & Sea strobes **Settings:** 1/60th at f-22, strobes on full **Description:** The mucky, dingy places within the lagoon harbor many of the more cryptic and beautiful smaller organisms that live in Palau, such as this nudibranch.| | | | **Dive Site:** Turtle Cove **Location:** Palau barrier reef **Marine Life ID:** Laticauda colubrina, banded sea snake **Film:** Fuji Velvia **Camera:** Nikonos V, 15mm lens, one Sea & Sea 120 strobe **Settings:** 1/60th at f-16, strobe on full **Description:** Occasionally a sea snake is spotted hunting or resting along one of the barrier reef walls. Usually, they are found commonly within the lagoon andharbor, hunting on shallow reef flats or sleeping along the sides of the islands.|

| Ethan Daniels **from Koror, Palau** **Occupation**: Biologist, photographer **Years diving**: 12 **Certification**: PADI OWSI|