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| California reef covered with purple hydrocoral (Stylaster californicus, Allopora californica), Farnsworth Banks. Image ID: 37177 Species: Hydrocoral, Allopora californica, Stylaster californicus Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Pacific torpedo ray Tetronarce californica, amidst huge schools of fish and baitfish, Farnsworth Banks, Catalina Island. This electric ray will shock the hell out of you if you are not careful. Image ID: 37231 Species: Pacific torpedo ray, Tetronarce californica, Torpedo californica Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Self portrait in kelp forest, Catalina Island. Image ID: 37274 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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| Giant black sea bass, endangered species, reaching up to 8' in length and 500 lbs, amid giant kelp forest. Image ID: 33354 Species: Giant black sea bass, Stereolepis gigas Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Sunlight streams through giant kelp forest. Giant kelp, the fastest growing plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky reef to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest. Image ID: 33433 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Garibaldi and golden gorgonian, with a underwater forest of giant kelp rising in the background, underwater. Image ID: 23432 Species: California golden gorgonian, Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus, Muricea californica Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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| Aerial photo of the West End of Catalina Island. Image ID: 25978 Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | California reef covered with purple hydrocoral (Stylaster californicus, Allopora californica), Farnsworth Banks. Image ID: 37184 Species: Hydrocoral, Allopora californica, Stylaster californicus Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Submarine Reef with Hydrocoral and Invertebrates, Farnsworth Banks, Catalina Island. Image ID: 34187 Species: Hydrocoral, Strawberry anemone, Allopora californica, Corynactis californica, Stylaster californicus Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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| Garibaldi swims in the kelp forest, sunlight filters through towering giant kelp plants rising from the ocean bottom to the surface, underwater. Image ID: 23419 Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Huge mixed schools of fish on Farnsworth Banks, Catalina Island, California. A veritable fish storm of epic proportions centered on Farnsworth Banks was experienced by divers for a few weeks in 2021. Image ID: 37244 Species: Halfmoon perch, Medialuna californiensis Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Red gorgonian Leptogorgia chilensis, purple hydrocoral Stylaster californicus, and yellow zoanthid anemone Epizoanthus giveni, at Farnsworth Banks, Catalina Island. Image ID: 37251 Species: Red gorgonian, Hydrocoral, Givens Zoanthid, Leptogorgia chilensis, Lophogorgia chilensis, Allopora californica, Stylaster californicus, Epizoanthus giveni Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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| The rare yellow zoanthid anemone Epizoanthus giveni, in large aggregations on the Yellow Wall at Farnsworth Banks, Catalina Island. Image ID: 37270 Species: Givens Zoanthid, Epizoanthus giveni Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Red gorgonian Leptogorgia chilensis, purple hydrocoral Stylaster californicus, and yellow zoanthid anemone Epizoanthus giveni, at Farnsworth Banks, Catalina Island. Image ID: 37271 Species: Red gorgonian, Hydrocoral, Givens Zoanthid, Leptogorgia chilensis, Lophogorgia chilensis, Allopora californica, Stylaster californicus, Epizoanthus giveni Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Giant black sea bass, gathering in a mating - courtship aggregation amid kelp forest, Catalina Island. Image ID: 33355 Species: Giant black sea bass, Stereolepis gigas Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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| Giant black sea bass, endangered species, reaching up to 8' in length and 500 lbs, amid giant kelp forest. Image ID: 33356 Species: Giant black sea bass, Stereolepis gigas Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Sunlight streams through giant kelp forest. Giant kelp, the fastest growing plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky reef to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest. Image ID: 33434 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Sunlight streams through giant kelp forest. Giant kelp, the fastest growing plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky reef to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest. Image ID: 33435 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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| Sunlight streams through giant kelp forest. Giant kelp, the fastest growing plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky reef to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest. Image ID: 33436 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Sunlight streams through giant kelp forest. Giant kelp, the fastest growing plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky reef to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest. Image ID: 33437 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Sunlight streams through giant kelp forest. Giant kelp, the fastest growing plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky reef to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest. Image ID: 33438 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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| Garibaldi and Brown Gorgonian Muricea fruticosa, Catalina Island, with giant kelp stands reaching from the reef to the surface of the ocean in the distance. The clown prince of the kelp forest, the Garibaldi, alternately poses for me and chirps at me to move away from his gorgonian. Image ID: 37157 Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Pyrosome drifting through a kelp forest, Catalina Island. Pyrosomes are free-floating colonial tunicates that usually live in the upper layers of the open ocean in warm seas. Pyrosomes are cylindrical or cone-shaped colonies made up of hundreds to thousands of individuals, known as zooids. Image ID: 37166 Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Gorgonian (yellow) that has been parasitized by zoanthid anemone (Savalia lucifica), and red gorgonian (Lophogorgia chilensis), Farnsworth Banks, Catalina Island. Image ID: 37185 Species: Luminescent parazoanthid, Zoanthid anemone, Red gorgonian, Parazoanthus lucificum, Savalia lucifica, Leptogorgia chilensis, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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| Red gorgonian Leptogorgia chilensis. The lower sea fan has its polyps retracted while the upper sea fan has all of its polyps extended into the current. Farnsworth Banks, Catalina Island, California. Image ID: 37266 Species: Red gorgonian, Leptogorgia chilensis, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Giant Kelp Forest, West End Catalina Island, rendered in the round by a circular fisheye lens. Image ID: 37279 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Parasitic zoanthid anemones cover and encrust and overwhelm a golden gorgonian, Catalina Head. Image ID: 37293 Species: Luminescent parazoanthid, Zoanthid anemone, Parazoanthus lucificum, Savalia lucifica Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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| Salema schooling amid kelp forest. Image ID: 01022 Species: Salema, Macrocystis pyrifera, Xenistius californiensis Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Juvenile garibaldi in motion. Image ID: 02343 Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Kelp fronds and pneumatocysts. Pneumatocysts, gas-filled bladders, float the kelp off the ocean bottom toward the surface and sunlight, where the leaf-like blades and stipes of the kelp plant grow fastest. Catalina Island, California. Image ID: 37282 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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