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Northern Arch
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Northern Arch is a renowned site that often has large pelagic species and current. The Arch is deep and bottoms out at over 36m, there is interesting structure on either side of the Arch and the Northern side of the Arch keeps sloping away down to 50m+.
Very Large Kingfish and snapper cruise the archway around the stingrays during the summer. Large schools of Blue Mao mao reside here. Sponges cover the floor.
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Alamy-WaterFrame
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Wrasse
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Eagle Ray
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Giant Oceanic Manta Ray
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Tobias Friedrich
Bottlenose Dolphin
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Snapper
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Stingrays
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Scorpionfish
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SSI-Peter-Schinck
Nudibranch
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Shutterstock-Rich Carey
Angelfish
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