bleaching

This looks like a star coral, but the color is weird. There were many of these "blue corals", especially to the south of St George.

This "Glowing Challenge" may be of interest to some UW photographers / biologists / "coral reef system likers"...: Glowing Glowing Gone Disclaimer: No affiliation and no full understanding of what they are up to exactly either... but it "sounds non-harmful", but I do not know that either...

I am still undecided on my 2017 diving trip, my travel dates shifted to May. I looked up multiple destinations, here is my shortlist. Investing a lot of time (flying from Europe) and a fair amount of money, I want to avoid dead reefs (Only 7% of the Great Barrier Reef has avoided coral bleaching...

My family and I were planning a luxury diving vacation in Maldives for March 2017, combining Four Seasons Landaa and Anantara Khivah. Now that the coral bleaching has ocurred I am having second thoughts. Has anyone been to Maldives recently and let us know how bad things are? And can anyone...

Hi all, I'll be in Queensland in August and was planning to do a 3D/2N trip to the outer reef near Cairns, but after some more reading I'm considering some of the (much more expensive!) trips further north, specifically to the Ribbon Reefs. Are they "that much" better than anything further...

Water got really HOT here tjis year and there has bern extensive coral bleaching on Kona and Kohala coasts. Had not seen much talk about this. Yesterday went on a trip to Puako, looked ok there. But it has never bern spectacular. But near Mauna Lani, Makaiwa Bay had been gorgeous with lots of...