For lack of a better discription, the deeper dives are completely different from the shallow dives. Each dive is a separate seamount which rises up steeply from about 120 feet to 40 to 60 feet at the top. They are all very prolific with huge trees of Gorgonia andf Whips , etc growing like forests on the top. Then the soft corals thin out as you descend the steep sides where it transitions to hard corals. The sides are where you will also find the most interesting fauna as well. Yes, you’ll find the usual snappers and turtles and groupers, but the main attraction is the profundity of wildly colored sponges and tunicates.
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