(PhysOrg.com) -- In recent years, tropical coral reefs have become drastically altered by disease epidemics. In a new study published by PLoS ONE, lead author Steven V. Vollmer, assistant professor of biology at the Marine Science Center at ...
21 Nov 2008
Since late October, Van Blakeman had heard his dive guides complain of damage to The Breakers reef, but he assumed another misplaced anchor was the culprit. Then the captain of the dive boat Narcosis saw the pictures: nearly two football fields worth ...
18 Nov 2008
Palm Beach, FL (AHN) - Sometime between Oct. 26 and Nov. 4 a tugboat dragging a cable tore through sponges and coral on The Breakers Reef off Palm Beach, Florida causing terrible damage. "This is the worst I've ever seen from a single event," Steve ...
18 Nov 2008
A huge swath of stunning corals on one of the most popular and profitable reefs in Palm Beach County has been shaved from the ocean floor - a crime almost impossible to solve and repair. Capt. Van Blakeman of the Riviera Beach dive boat Narcosis ...
17 Nov 2008
PALM BEACH, FL -- It's one of the shiniest gems in Palm Beach County but lately divers are in for a surprise encounter on the Breakers reef. "Sponges, hard corals, soft coral,s everything is just ripped out like somebody took a razor blade and ...
17 Nov 2008
Scientists are in an unprecedented project to restore Japan's largest coral reef by planting thousands of baby corals growing on tiny ceramic beds. Corals in Sekisei Lagoon stretching between the Okinawan islands of Ishigaki and Iriomote have plunged ...
17 Nov 2008
The final day of the Reef Hawaiian Pro men's surfing contest is postponed today due to a lack of quality waves at Hale'iwa Ali'i Beach.
21 Nov 2008
Second set of cars becomes reef off of Ocean City.
21 Nov 2008
N. TOPSAIL BEACH – Firefighters from several towns responded to a fire at the Topsail Reef condominium complex Sunday, Nov. 9.
21 Nov 2008
Four sailors stranded on a reef 500 nautical miles off the Queensland coast have been rescued. The men were picked up by the P&O ocean liner the Pacific Sun about 2.30pm (AEST) on Friday, a spokesman for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said.
20 Nov 2008
Four sailors stranded on a reef 500 nautical miles off the Queensland coast are safe and are due to be rescue by a diverted cruise ship, officials say.
20 Nov 2008
The four person crew of the New Zealand yacht Sambaluka waited all day to be rescued by P&O cruise ship Pacific Sun from a reef off the coast of Australia.
20 Nov 2008
The final day of the Reef Hawaiian Pro men's surfing contest is postponed today due to a lack of quality waves at Hale‘iwa Ali‘i Beach.
21 Nov 2008
History was made on the North Shore of Oahu yesterday as 16 year old Carissa Moore won the first leg ...
21 Nov 2008
Second set of cars becomes reef off of Ocean City.
21 Nov 2008
Four sailors stranded on a reef 926km off the Queensland coast after their yacht ran aground have been rescued by a cruise ship.
20 Nov 2008
With cleaned up small but rippable conditions Thursday morning and swell expected to build throughout the day, the decision was made early this morning to.
20 Nov 2008
20 November, 2008 : - - Haleiwa -- The 2008 Reef Hawaiian Pro was always going to be about the new guard of women's surfing from the opening heat of competition. Today, Haleiwa crowned it's youngest ever Vans Triple Crown of Surfing ...
20 Nov 2008