coral health

When researching potential dive sites, I'm often frustrated by the lack of detailed overview videos of dive conditions at that site. If videos exist at all, they might be 3 minutes of crappy stick-held GoPro footage or glorious professionally produced "Best-of" clips complete with drone shots...

Within the Dutch Caribbean, Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease has been confirmed now on five of the six islands. ✅ READ MORE: Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease in the Dutch Caribbean Reported sightings started in: St. Maarten in 2018, St. Eustatius in 2019, Saba in 2021 and most recently in...

At this point, most people have heard about how coral reefs worldwide are under threat. With living cover of reef-building corals in the Caribbean decreasing by at least 50% since the late 1970s, it's easy to feel depressed about the future of our oceans. But it doesn't have to be all doom and...

Hi all! I'm a marine scientist based on the Riviera Maya, Mexico. For several years I've been helping collect data and working for non-profit organisations and university researchers globally. Recently I've been assisting and lending my expertise to several groups in Mexico, as Government...

Hi all! I'm a marine scientist from Hampshire UK, now based on the Riviera Maya, Mexico. For several years I've been helping collect data and working for non-profit organisations and university researchers globally. Recently I've been assisting and lending my expertise to several groups in...

If you have always wanted to learn more about coral reefs AND help in saving them, this vacation may be for you! We'll be going to Cozumel with a nice group of divers, snorkelers, and non-divers. You can either spend a half day OR 2 days with the Cozumel Coral Restoration Program. For details...

I reside in Calgary, Alberta Canada. I am looking to cover Raja Ampat and Fiji for a diving/sight-seeing trip in month of March and April 2017. I am interested mainly in colorful and diverse corals (not so much muck/macro-dive/ whale sharks). i) Please suggest liveaboard companies and dive sites...

We're starting a new project and I was just curious if the community here had some feedback and observations to contribute. We're starting a multi-institutional collaboration to try to understand what factors accelerate or place controls on the diversity of fish color over time. There are a lot...