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Yellow Jack

The Yellow Jack is a pale yellow-green-blue dorsally, becoming silver on the underside. Juveniles show around five vertival bands, which fade to blotches and finally disappear altogether as the fish matures. The fins are all hyaline in appearance, often with a golden-brown tinge to them. Older fish tend to be more yellow, with large specimens having bright yellow fins. The yellow jack is distributed throughout the tropical to subtropical western Atlantic Ocean.

Black Grouper - Mycteroperca bonaci

The Black Grouper, Mycteroperca bonaci, belongs to the family of the Serranidae, subfamily Epinephelinae and includes numerous species of saltwater fish; they are large fish, which generally live in depth and are appreciated for their prized meats. It is a protogynous hermaphrodite fish that lives for a long time, some estimate even over 50 years, and that becomes male around the age of 12.

Diving in Santo Domingo’s coral reefs

Despite its small size, the Dominican Republic is home to nine national parks, including an underwater park located east of the capital: Parque Nacional Submarino La Caleta. It is the only entirely underwater reserve in the country. The Parque Nacional Submarino La Caleta (English: La Caleta Underwater National Park) is a national park located approximately 20 kilometres from Santo Domingo.

Oreaster reticulatus

The Red Cushion Sea Star, Oreaster reticulatus, commonly known as the West Indian sea star, is a species of marine invertebrate, a starfish in the family Oreasteridae. It is found in shallow water in the western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. The Red Cushion Star is the largest sea star found within its range, sometimes growing to about 50 centimetres in diameter.

Bothus ocellatus

 Eyed Flounder (Bothus ocellatus) is a species of fish in the family Bothidae. The species is found on or near the sandy seabed in relatively shallow waters in the western Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, its range extending from Canada to southern Brazil ...

Humpback Whales of Samaná

I went to the Samaná Peninsula, in Santo Domingo, to film the Humpback Whales in one of the world's breeding grounds for these whales. During this period, the Humpback Whales stay until the welps acquire, after the nursing period, their autonomy, but above all to protect them from the Orcas, their main predators. The province is on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean in the northeastern part of ...

Schoolmaster Snapper - Lutjanus apodus

The Schoolmaster Snapper (Lutjanus apodus) is a colorful, subtropical fish found over coral reef areas along the coasts of Florida, the Bahamas and the Carribean Sea, though it can range northward along the Atlantic coast of the United States.

The Strombus Gigas shell

Aliger gigas, originally known as Strombus gigas or more recently as Lobatus gigas, commonly known as the Queen Conch, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family of true conches, the Strombidae. This species is one of the largest molluscs native to the Caribbean Sea,

Groupers in the world

We made a collage of short films, shot by the authors present on the site www.intotheblue.link, to present the Groupers of various species. We want to give these beautiful images to all the lovers of the underwater world and to all those who love the sea.

Red Lionfish - Pterois volitans

Red Lionfish (Pterois volitans) is a fish venomous who live coral reef  in the family Scorpaenidae, order Scorpaeniformes. Pterois volitansis natively found in the Indo-Pacific region, but has become an invasive problem in the Carribbean Sea, as well as along the East Coast of the United States.

Nassau Grouper

Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus), is one of the large number of perciformes fishes in the family Serranidae. The Nassau grouper is a medium to large fish, growing to over a meter in length and up to 25 kg in weight. It has a thick body and large mouth, which it uses to "inhale" prey. Its color varies depending on an individual fish's circumstances and environment.

Atlantic Goliath Grouper

Atlantic Goliath Grouper or itajara (Epinephelus itajara),  also known as the jewfish,  is a large saltwater fish of the grouper family which is found primarily in tropical waters among coral and artificial reefs at depths from 5 to 50 m. It can reach 2.5 meters in length and 360 kg in weight.

The Sandbar Shark

The Sandbar Shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) is a species of shark of the genus Carcharhinus and of the Carcharhinidae family. It is present more or less in all tropical seas and in the temperate zones of the earth. The color can vary from bluish to burnished gray up to bronze, with a clear or white belly.

Black Grouper

The Black Grouper, Mycteroperca bonaci is found in the western Atlantic where its range extends from Cape Canaveral in Florida and Bermuda south to the Bahamas, into the Gulf of Mexico as far north as Alabama and from southern Texas along the coast of Mexico and Cuba. It occurs throughout the Caribbean Sea

Cayo Largo

Cayo Largo del Sur, or simply Cayo Largo ("Long Key”), is a small resort island in Cuba, off the south coast of the northwestern part of the main island in the Caribbean Sea. The cay is about 25 kilometers (16 mi) long and 3 kilometers wide and is the second largest island in the Canarreos Archipelago.