The coral crisis is upon us! The backbone of life, the ocean, is crumbling around our ears and the essential components for sustaining life in our great seas are dying. Quite frankly, the compla

Artificial reefs are being created all over. This is good news for the ocean and its inhabitants. Environmentally cleaned artificial reefs are sunk to provide hard skeletons for marine life to grow an

  We know they are in trouble as they are being destroyed but how are they built in the first place? Coral Reefs are mainly built up by reef-building stony corals (Scleractinia), some of which

I’m currently reading a very interesting report about the status of coral reefs of the world, and I’ll write something about the status of coral reefs in Sout-East Asia, because I think

It was quite a challenge becoming a National Geographic Diver. I had to learn extreme bouyancy control, underwater navigation and most of all hands on conservation of the marine environmen

Over 70% of Indonesian territory is water. It has been called the centre of biodiversity and one of the most magically places on earth. I have been doing some research on Indonesia and this is some

  ARE REEF HOOKS DAMAGING OUR REEFS? There is a debate between divers concerning the use of reef hooks. Are they damaging to the coral reefs, how do they work and what are their advantages? Div