Ey, great but sad images. Thank you for sharing it. You haven't posted the link to this video in X. Will you do it? I want to share it, but I also do not want to overcast your potential sharing and outreach. Thanks
that was from 2017 i saw no updated dives from that area. has the reefs recovered after 7 years? i live in Florida and they are reseeding the Florida keys with some amazing results. the corals seem to develop a tolerance to higher temps after successful generations are bred. of course that is the US and not the middle east. Tourism is their life blood there. they better hope they come back.
Thanks for the comments - there is no commercial diving on the Saudi side; we were there with special research permission, and I expect things have not gotten better as seawater temperatures have only increased. As for the Florida Keys, this past summer has devastated all the restoration efforts of the past decade - very few corals have survived.
Hi @scubaguy5389 - much of this video compares 2017 (vibrant reefs) with 2023 (degraded). Also, this might be of interest - "After mass coral die-off, Florida scientists rethink plan to save ailing reefs" - Four years ago, NOAA unveiled a $100 million coral rescue moonshot. "Mission: Iconic Reefs" would re-plant half a million hand-reared coral colonies over 2 decades. But in 2023, a record-breaking underwater heat wave swept the Caribbean and southern Florida, and killed most of the transplanted colonies.
Florida’s reef faced many damaging events before because of the climate change, but due to the scientific research that used to be occurred frequently in US, they could know the reasons, but eventually no one can control the global warming
By the way, I did a survey in the northern and the southern parts of the Egyptian Red Sea in November 2023 and I found many coral colonies have been recovered in the north more than the south, I did the survey before bleaching, through, and after. I think this happened as the reef experiences high temperatures
Ey, great but sad images. Thank you for sharing it. You haven't posted the link to this video in X. Will you do it? I want to share it, but I also do not want to overcast your potential sharing and outreach. Thanks
Thanks for asking -- I'm not on X, so please feel free to post the link anywhere you like!!
I noticed that in November last year as I visited Shams Alam Beach Resort. It's so sad.
Super👍Amazing place👍
It is unfortunate and depressing to see, the same is happening in the Southern Red Sea too. I just hoped the north would be better protected.
that was from 2017 i saw no updated dives from that area. has the reefs recovered after 7 years? i live in Florida and they are reseeding the Florida keys with some amazing results. the corals seem to develop a tolerance to higher temps after successful generations are bred. of course that is the US and not the middle east. Tourism is their life blood there. they better hope they come back.
Thanks for the comments - there is no commercial diving on the Saudi side; we were there with special research permission, and I expect things have not gotten better as seawater temperatures have only increased. As for the Florida Keys, this past summer has devastated all the restoration efforts of the past decade - very few corals have survived.
Hi @scubaguy5389 - much of this video compares 2017 (vibrant reefs) with 2023 (degraded).
Also, this might be of interest -
"After mass coral die-off, Florida scientists rethink plan to save ailing reefs" - Four years ago, NOAA unveiled a $100 million coral rescue moonshot. "Mission: Iconic Reefs" would re-plant half a million hand-reared coral colonies over 2 decades. But in 2023, a record-breaking underwater heat wave swept the Caribbean and southern Florida, and killed most of the transplanted colonies.
Florida’s reef faced many damaging events before because of the climate change, but due to the scientific research that used to be occurred frequently in US, they could know the reasons, but eventually no one can control the global warming
By the way, I did a survey in the northern and the southern parts of the Egyptian Red Sea in November 2023 and I found many coral colonies have been recovered in the north more than the south, I did the survey before bleaching, through, and after. I think this happened as the reef experiences high temperatures