By Yvette Cardozo with photography courtesy of Sam’s Tours, Gunther Deichmann, Kevin Davidson, Wayne Hasson, Palau Visitor’s Authority
Vol. 12. No. 7
At a depth of 80 feet, as we stopped to admire three feet stalks of neon pink soft coral, the ocean suddenly became dark. It was not a cloud, but rather a huge school of snapper, easily over 1,000 of them, swimming in perfect formation above us. Dipping towards me in a silver wall, in an instant, they turned in unison and were gone.