Articles & Guides
Stories, guides and practical tips for exploring the world's coral reefs. 77 articles and counting.
8 Feb 2021
Coral Reef Cnidarians
Coral Reef Cnidarians are an animal group comprised of a number of familiar marine animals including corals, jellyfish, and anemones.
8 Feb 2021
Coral Reef Algae
Coral reef algae (along other algae) are the most primitive of plants, without the organization or structure of their terrestrial counterparts
8 Feb 2021
Atoll Facts and Information
Atoll Facts and Information. For reef scientists, atolls are broadly defined as large, ring-shaped coral reefs that surround a central lagoon.
8 Feb 2021
Vanuatu Diving
Vanuatu Diving offers a quality and variety of opportunities to explore isolated, reef-fringed islands rivaled by few other dive destinations.
8 Feb 2021
Caribbean Diving
Caribbean Diving. This page of our website presents information on key aspects of scuba diving and snorkeling Caribbean coral reefs...
30 Dec 2020
Blogs
Blogs. Information and pictures. See our extensive information on Coral Reef Animals and ecosystems in these reefs.
30 Dec 2020
Fore Reef Zone
The Fore Reef Zone (also often called the “reef front” or “reef face”) begins at the seaward base of the Reef Crest Zone.
30 Dec 2020
Indo-Pacific Coral Reefs
Indo-Pacific Coral Reefs are distributed over a truly huge oceanic area that covers almost half of the Earth’s entire surface
30 Dec 2020
What Are Coral Reefs?
What Are Coral Reefs? a complex tropical marine ecosystems consisting chiefly of compacted coral together with algal material,
27 Nov 2020
Best Coral Reef Books
Best Coral Reef Books. Information and pictures. See our extensive information on Coral Reef Animals and ecosystems in these reefs.
16 Nov 2020
Coral Reef Formation
Coral Reef Formation involves a variety of processes operating at different spatial scales, and our discussion of how coral reefs are formed
16 Nov 2020
Reef Diving Skills
Reef Diving Skills will go far in helping scuba divers make the most of their visits to coral reefs. Coral reef diving presents challenges
12 Nov 2020
How Are Coral Reefs Formed?
How Are Coral Reefs Formed? Coral reef structure often seem infinitely variable, particularly from the relatively small scale perspective
12 Nov 2020
Coral Reef Zones
Coral reef ecosystems of all Types consist of a mosaic of different Coral Reef Zones, each of which has distinctive physical and ecological..
12 Nov 2020
Reef Friendly Diving
Reef Friendly Diving by learning and observing reef friendly diving practices, the individual diver or snorkeler can minimize the impacts
12 Nov 2020
Coral Reef Plants
Coral Reef Plants has been traditionally used to refer to all photosynthetic life forms commonly found within coral reef ecosystems
12 Nov 2020
Coral Reef Fish
Coral Reef Fish are perhaps the most obvious, colorful, and fascinating to watch of all the myriad creatures that inhabit these ecosystems
12 Nov 2020
Red Sea Coral Reefs
Red Sea Coral Reefs are the northernmost in the Indian Ocean. Most of the Red Sea coast is rimmed by shallow submarine shelves
9 Nov 2020
Caribbean Coral Reefs
Caribbean Coral Reefs occur within a relatively small part of the Earth’s tropical seas. The contiguous biogeographic region containing...
5 Nov 2020
Where Are Coral Reefs Located & Found?
Where Are Coral Reefs Located & Found? in all three of the Earth’s oceans that have portions in the tropics the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian.
5 Nov 2020
Coral Reef Biome
The Coral Reef Biome is one of the most important and distinctive types of biological communities found on Planet Earth...
4 Nov 2020
Dive Coral Reefs
Dive Coral Reefs. If you are already planning a trip to dive coral reefs or thinking of doing so, then this section is for you...
4 Nov 2020
Types of Coral Reefs
Types of Coral Reefs are generally recognize three MAJOR types of coral reefs: Fringing Reefs, Barrier Reefs, and Atolls.
1 Nov 2020
Coral Reef Animals
Coral Reef Animals are the most conspicuous component of coral reef life, occurring in truly astounding numbers and variety...