Kasi Maru shipwreck and fish. Blue-girdled angelfish (Pomacanthus navarchus, centre) and regal angelfish (Pygoplites diacanthus, lower right) swimming

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Kasi Maru shipwreck and fish. Blue-girdled angelfish (Pomacanthus navarchus, centre) and regal angelfish (Pygoplites diacanthus, lower right) swimming over a reef grown up around the Kasi Maru wreck. This is a Japanese merchant ship that was sunk off New Georgia island in Ironbottom Sound, Solomon Islands, during a World War II bombing raid in July 1943. Photographed off Kapalai, Sabah, Malaysia.

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Photo credit: © GEORGETTE DOUWMA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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