Animals

The gray reef shark patrols in groups at the edge of the plateaus, facing the current, and approaches divers who stay still.

Glassfish are the small copper and gold fish that fill the holds and corridors of Red Sea wrecks in clouds, from the Thistlegorm to the Giannis D.

The giant trevally, or GT, is a large Indo-Pacific reef predator with a steep forehead that reaches 1.70 meters and 80 kilos.

The giant moray is the biggest of all morays, reaching 3 meters and 30 kilos.

The giant grouper is the largest bony fish on coral reefs: up to 2.70 meters and 400 kilos.

The spotted garden eel is a small white conger with black spots that stands upright in the sand, in colonies of several hundred, mouth into the current to snap up plankton.

The Galapagos shark, three meters long, gray-brown and streamlined, patrols the current-swept reefs of oceanic islands.

Fusiliers are spindle-shaped fish, often blue and yellow, that swirl by the thousands along walls to feed on plankton.

The frogfish is an angler: sitting on a sponge it mimics perfectly, it waves a lure at the tip of a spine and sucks in its prey in six milliseconds.

The dusky grouper is the big fish of Mediterranean rocky reefs: it can reach 1.50 meters and 100 kilos, lives about fifty years and is born female before becoming male.