Solomon Islands 2014 Corals

This set of 2 souvenir sheets were released 20 December 2014 on the theme of corals. The selvedge of both sheets are decorated with photos with scuba divers in them. The scuba diver in the first sheet is obvious, but the scuba diver in the second sheet is at a distance, seen as a shadow below the gorgonian (sea fan).

Solomon Islands 2013 Corals - Scuba divers

Solomon Islands released 15 March 2013 a set of souvenir sheets featuring indigenous corals, in the second souvenir sheet with a single $24-stamp, silhouettes of at least 3 divers are featured in mid-water of a beautiful coral reef.

Mayotte 2011 Scuba diving

Mayotte, an island in the Comoro archipelago under french administration, issued on 4 July 2011 a single stamp on the theme of scuba diving (La plongée sous-marine). The stamp design features 3 scuba divers hovering over the edge of a coral reef. Hopefully modern day divers do not dive the same way as these ones shown on the stamp, with all the hoses for the octopus and the gauges hanging out freely, ready to snag on to the coral, and probably damaging the coral!

Marshall Islands 2011 Corals of the Sea

The Marshall Islands Postal Service issued on 10 March 2011 a set of 5 stamps featuring corals. The issue comes in a sheet containing 4 sets of the stamps, the sheet margin is decorated with marine underwater reef scenery with the silhouette of a scuba diver on the top margin. The stamps themselves are very beautiful, featuring corals like the chalis coral, the elkhorn coral, the brain coral and the finger corals; the corals on the stamps are envliven by the reef fishes swimming around them.

New Caledonia 2010 X'mas

The New Caledonian Christmas issue, released 4 November 2010, features Santa Claus on his sleigh in an underwater vista. Santa's sleigh is formed from the 2 halves of a giant scallop, pulled by 4 seahorses, instead of reindeer; and he is wearing a diving mask with a snorkel, air bubbles escaping from it. The seabed is decorated with an octopus on a brain coral, and reef fishes, like the clown fish swimming around a sea anemone, the bannerfish and the yellow longnose butterflyfish.

Vanuatu 2010 Aerogramme

Vanuatu Post released 2 new aerogrammes for 2010, the design of one features birds while that of the second one features marine fauna - dolphins, reef fishes and coral reef. The marine fauna aerogramme has a stamp printed on the top right corner featuring a scuba diver looking out from a hatch of the SS President Coolidge wreck.

Indonesia 2009 World Ocean Conference

The Indonesian Post released on 11 May 2009 this block of 4 to commemorate World Ocean Conferece and the Coral Triangle Summit. The lower right stamp of the block features a scuba diver with a camera approaching a coral mount covered with soft corals and staghorn corals. This issue also comes with a souvenir sheet, displaying a hawksbill turtle resting on a coral mount.

PNG 2009 Coral Triangle

Papua New Guinea released a sheetlet containing 4 triangular stamps on 22 May 2009, to commemorate a meeting on the Coral Triangle that includes peninsular nations and other archipelagoes: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Philippines, East Timor, Indonesia and Malaysia. The issue also comprises a souvenir sheet and 4 other triangular stamps. This sheetlet features a variety of pelagic and benthic fauna, and in the left-most stamp just under the dolphin is the scuba diver!