Splendid knotted fan coral (Acabaria splendens), Ras Mohammed National Park, Red Sea, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Silhouette of three scuba divers above giant sea fan (Annella mollis), Ras Mohammed National Park, Red Sea, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Sea fan (Acabaria), Sulawesi, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

A pregnant pygmy seahorse clings to a frond of a gorgonian fan, Anilao, Philippines.

Pink Sea Fan Eunicella verrucosa & Nudibranch Tritonia nilsodhneri

Pink Sea Fan Eunicella verrucosa (white colour form, a soutern variation)

Pink Sea Fan Eunicella verrucosa (southern white version)

Pink Sea Fan Eunicella verrucosa

Pink Sea Fan Eunicella verrucosa

Comanthina Crinoid (Comaster gracilis) dark feather starfish crinoid on pink Sea Fan, Sipidan, Mabul, Malaysia.

Pink Sea Fan Eunicella verrucosa

Pink Sea Fan Eunicella verrucosa & female Cuckoo wrasse Labrus mixtus

Pink Sea Fan Eunicella verrucosa (Southern white version)

Crinoid or Feather Starfish (Comantheria briareus) starfish on yellow sea fan and pink anthias fish, Mabul, Borneo, Malaysia, South China Sea

Pink Sea Fan Eunicella verrucosa

Colour fan

RAL colour fan

Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas), an endangered species, is resting under a fan of gorgonian coral along with two remora, Philippines

China, Jiangsu, Nanjing, Road-side bakery shop baker cutting strips of dough that will be twisted and deep-fried in a wok to ptoduce Yu Tiao a popular breakfast bread usually eaten with warm soyamilk or porridge or Xi Fan Bundles of Yu Tiao in baskets ready for sale.