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STEVENSKELLEY

@stevenskelley.bsky.social

Snorkeling off a catamaran day in Barbados. I saw two shipwrecks, hundreds of colorful fish, three tarpon and several sea turtles. It was a very enjoyable day.

October 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM Everybody can reply

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Missy Hubbard

@missy-ubermom.bsky.social

Fuck if I’m going out on a scuba diving or snorkeling jaunt in the Caribbean ever again!!!

October 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM Everybody can reply

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Spook-Electra 👻 (2/3 c0mm slots)

@electrafirefly.bsky.social

OC-tober Day 22: Beach Day 🏖️

The Splat Café crew spends some time out of the kitchen for a little fun in the sun ☀️

[ #ElectraArts #OC-tober #Splatoon #SplatCafe #SplatoonOC #art ]

The Splat Cafe staff shown at the beach. Barry and Piper are playing volleyball with Benedict and Pops, while Granny Ginger and Leif are snorkeling for seashells in the ocean

October 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM Everybody can reply

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falalala50.bsky.social

@falalala50.bsky.social

Primarily the butt-snorkeling Republicans who will never stand up to him…EVER! They are apparently devoid of any type of moral compass, of loyalty to the Country and to the Constitution that they all swore an oath preserve, protect and defend and the most definitely have NO SPINES!!

October 24, 2025 at 2:45 AM Everybody can reply

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Playa Sonrisa Clothing Optional Resort

@playasonrisa.bsky.social

Use of Kayaks and Stand Up paddleboards is complimentary for our guests! And we can even show you where some great snorkeling is right from the beach!

#clothingoptional #playasonrisamexico #naturist

October 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM Everybody can reply

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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️

@coastalpaleo.bsky.social

Some more sea lions! 🤿🐬🦑 #snorkeling

Two sea lion pups playing underneath a breaking wave; the seafloor is covered in green seagrass

A more mature sea lion swimming by me, blowing a few bubbles out; the seafloor is sandy with some rocks

The same subadult sea lion, sticking its nose near the sandy bottom

A juvenile, lighter in color, swims over some rocks and blows some bubbles out

October 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM Everybody can reply

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Barbarella The Mad 😻 Lady

@themadcatlady.com

Just under the surface...
🌊🧜‍♀️🤿🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🇮🇨
#lanzarote #puertodelcarmen #skindiving #snorkeling #schnorcheln #underwatercam #snorkelinglanzarote #ocean #fish #fishes #seabream #salema #ornatewrasse #canarydamsel #clearwater #atlanticocean #diving #underwater #islandlife #canarias #canaryislands

October 21, 2025 at 7:38 AM Everybody can reply

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Wordman

@iamwordman.bsky.social

The coral reef is Belize’s top tourist destination, popular for scuba diving and snorkeling and attracting almost half of its 260,000 visitors. It is also vital to the country’s fishing industry. #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

1984 Marine Life from the Belize Coral Reef - Dick’s Stamps Online

The coral reef is Belize's top tourist destination, popular for scuba diving and snorkeling and attracting almost half of its visitors.

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October 20, 2025 at 12:10 AM Everybody can reply

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Velvet Escape

@velvetescape.com

Really good visibility when I was there. There’s a protected snorkeling area just off the beach.

October 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM Everybody can reply

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Butter Emails

@butteremails2.bsky.social

So let's ask the Caribbean nations if they're feeling good about their upcoming tourism season since trump has taken to blowing up boats in their waters, & deploying ships in the region. Who wants to go snorkeling?

Uh. Maybe we'll just stay in our own countries.

#trumpfail again and always.

October 20, 2025 at 12:49 AM Everybody can reply

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jai 🖤

@gimmethatagustd.bsky.social

a screenshot of jimin swimming in the ocean, with only part of his face and his arm sticking out above water. his scared buff reads: "no more water (from fear of swimming) - jimin may not know many chemicals, but he does know the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide".

meanwhile, jungkook, taehyung, and yoongi decided to go snorkeling with dolphins!

October 19, 2025 at 12:52 AM Everybody can reply

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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️

@coastalpaleo.bsky.social

And finally, my favorite sightings: I got to snorkel with a bunch of sea lion pups in their nursery at La Jolla Cove! I didn't approach them: I basically just floated there and they would do 'flybys' every couple of minutes. This one was playing with a piece of kelp! 🤿🐬🦑 #snorkeling

A sea lion pup swimming by, belly facing me, foreflippers outstretched, and letting out a ton of bubbles from its mouth; the water is a bluish turquoise and the seafloor is covered in bright green seagrass

A pair of sea lion pups swimming by me, the one in front has a long piece of kelp that it is biting and pulling along; the water is a bluish turquoise and the seafloor is covered in bright green seagrass

A pair of sea lion pups swimming by me, the one pulling the piece of kelp has just dropped it and is doing a loop-the-loop; the water is a bluish turquoise and the seafloor is covered in bright green seagrass

October 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM Everybody can reply

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In2yourbriefs

@in2yourbriefs.bsky.social

When you go snorkeling and catch the sexy Canadian in his white speedos jumping in the water and a stingray all in 1 , he could stick me with his sting any day #speedos #briefs #underwear #underpants #underwearfetish

October 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM Everybody can reply

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Menestune

@menestune.bsky.social

Honu bursting forth

#diving #snorkeling #underwaterphotography #photography #marinelife #nature #ocean #hawaii #love #turtles #endangeredspecies

Green Sea Turtle swimming through sandy and clear green water. She is emerging from a cloud of sand that has been kicked up from the incoming waves.

October 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM Everybody can reply

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Dr Sally

@drsally.bsky.social

Off for a day snorkeling

Wavelength

Best boat out of Port Douglas

Marine biologists

October 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM Everybody can reply

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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️

@coastalpaleo.bsky.social

Schools of kelp bass (Paralabrax clathratus) swimming behind giant kelp fronds off La Jolla. #snorkeling 🦑🤿

A school of kelp bass swimming underneath a giant kelp strand; the fish are dark with white bellies and rectangular white spots on their back, and quite deep bodied. The water is a deep blue color; the kelp is greenish, and further up, illuminated with golden highlights.

October 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM Everybody can reply

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️

@mags.colvett.online

Finished this last night while working late on an art project and had to stop and be in my feelings for a minute when the scientists played recordings of a healthy coral reef to draw fish back to a bleached, abandoned coral reef and help it recover

Snorkeling through the rubble, Gordon found that the reefs had been not only bleached but also silenced. Snapping shrimps no longer snapped. Parrotfish no longer crunched. Those sounds normally help to
guide baby fish back to the reef after their first vulnerable months out at sea. Soundless reefs were much less attractive. Gordon feared that if fish avoided the degraded reefs, the seaweed they normally eat would run amok, overgrowing the bleached corals and preventing them from rebounding. But in 2017, "we went back and thought: Can we flip that on its head?" he says.

He and his colleagues set up loudspeakers that continuously played recordings of healthy reefs over patches of coral rubble. The team would dive every few days to survey the local animals. "And on day 30," Gordon says, "I remember moseying around with my dive buddies and saying, 'There's a big pattern here, isn't there?'" After 40 days, he ran the numbers and saw that the acoustically enriched reefs had twice as many young fish as silent ones and 50 percent more species. They had not only been attracted by the sounds but stayed and formed a community. "It was a lovely experiment to do," Gordon says. It showed what conservationists can accomplish by "seeing the world through the perceptions of the animals you're trying to protect."

October 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM Everybody can reply

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Gerry

@gerskie.bsky.social

I had a wonderful morning at Paradise Island Beach Resort which was just a 5 minute boat ride from the city 🏖️ Jass was my snorkeling guide and the colourful corals with a variety of marine life didn't disappoint 🤩❤️🪸 🐠🐟

October 16, 2025 at 8:58 AM Everybody can reply

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Chris Burton

@cfburton.bsky.social

Napali Coast Highlights #hawaii #napalicoast #ocean #gopro #nature #naturelovers #seaturtles #snorkeling youtube.com/shorts/U5oUR...

Napali Coast Highlights

YouTube video by CFB

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October 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM Everybody can reply

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Son of Sandor

@sonofsandor.bsky.social

I had an encounter with one snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef off Port Douglas. It came up underneath me like a submarine and slowly departed. This was the location Steve Irwin was killed

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 12d

A curious, colossal, cow-sized sunfish circled an Oregon boat and rose to be touched. Roughly 7 feet, 1,000+ lbs. Watch the video.

Watch one of the weirdest fish on Earth swim circles around Oregon fisherman

A curious, colossal, cow-sized sunfish circled an Oregon boat and rose to be touched. Roughly 7 feet, 1,000+ lbs. Watch the video.

www.oregonlive.com

October 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM Everybody can reply

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Justine Cross Justine Cross 👠 Los Angeles

@justineplays.bsky.social

🛳️ Catalina was a delightful escape yesterday! I’ve wanted to go snorkeling here for years and finally did it! First time wearing a wetsuit and it was like putting on a latex catsuit.

🦞Send for lobster & wine.

October 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM Everybody can reply

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᱙Ŧ 🪥🌻):)✘ cooccielle 🦋🐍

@cooccielle.bsky.social

Les activités commence à être réservée gentiment pour les vacances ☺️

Randonné pour ma mère et ma sœur
Plongée
Snorkeling
Peut être le zoo de tortue à voir 🤔
Le marché de st-pierre (si je ne me trompe pas d’endroit haha)

Olala tellement hâte z d’y être

October 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM Everybody can reply

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