Truemors
Lion fish are the beautiful but deadly predators of the Great Barrier Reef. Their spines are tipped with poison which they use to kill they prey. These same spines are a very useful defense for the fish, and divers do well to not get too close to the little beasties!
This was filmed in September 2006 using a Nikon Coolpix 7900 with an Ikelite housing.
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at 18:13 on January 15th, 2009
I've dived all over the world and yet the Great Barrier Reef still remains in my humble opinion, the foremost place to dive. The further you can get from the cities along the coast, the better the diving gets. If you've got the time, go out on a live-aboard dive boat to see the best.
We need to preserve the reef. Run-off and damage from fishing and poorly supervised snorkelers and divers damage the reef and are things we can remedy relatively easily. Global warming - that's a bigger problem!