| I pick up a piece of coral with delicate branches, the Acropora or staghorn coral. |
| Some inquisitive groupers swam out to meet us from among staghorn coral that was over 20 feet tall. |
| Beautiful table and staghorn corals cover the topside structures offering divers spectacular vistas. |
| But remarkably, the new coral takes only a few years to establish itself on the heaps of ruined staghorn coral. |
| In between the two islands, black tip sharks were sighted near a healthy patch of staghorn corals. |
| The average depth here is 16m, where numerous large, scattered boulders are covered with a reasonable presence of elk and staghorn corals. |