Scuba Diver Ocean Planet Issue 06/2016 | Page 97

corals are the currents – the 41 Healthy and pristine influx of nutrients that feeds soft corals thriving on the life on the reefs, while the reef simultaneously creating fantastic visibility. Currents provide basic needs for flourishing fan corals, which, in turn, are home to many creatures like the exquisite pygmy seahorse, featuring on many a guest’s bucket list. Other usual suspects include dogtooth tuna, bumphead Maori wrasse, octopuses, winged pipefish, scorpion leaffish, nudibranchs, moray eels, banded sea kraits, barracuda – and the list goes on and on. 41