I want to be able to go back to this reef. Thank you.

The Australian Great Barrier Reef is another success story.

A great deal of this has been happening in the Great Barrier Reef, particularly in coral reefs all over the world.

Under the realization from tourist operators, fishermen, the Australian Great Barrier Reef Authority and scientists that the Great Barrier Reef is doomed under the current governance regime.

MEPC adopted a resolution (MEPC.133(53)) designating the Torres Strait as an extension of the Great Barrier Reef Particularly Sensitive Sea Area.

And that is the same reef that's the same reef 15 years ago that's the same reef today.

ReefCity.

Golden Grotto?

IV Coral reefs

Look out, the rocks!

The reef!

This is a tracking experiment, and any of you scuba divers, if you want to get involved in one of the coolest projects ever, this is off the Great Barrier Reef.

Major Scott, there's a reef between us and that island, and these boats will get hung up on it.

Night Rock by Tigert

Kwajalein

327. Only two particularly sensitive sea areas have so far been designated by IMO the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the archipelago of Sabana Camagüey in Cuba.

There is an area that is the oceans, coral reefs.

And on top of the coral reefs are sand banks.

Florida Keys, FL

104. Welcomes the publication of the Status of Coral Reefs in Tsunami Affected Countries 2005 by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network

Shipwreck. Ship on the rocks!

They're The Southern Cross above coral reefs.

Provision of support for the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) and the International Coral Reef Action Network (ICRAN) for promoting effective and sustainable coral reef management practices.

We're crocheting a coral reef.

The hot sand, Green seaweed anchored to a rock...

You won't find it down there. That's the Golden Grotto.

Those reefs at Discovery Bay, Jamaica were the most studied coral reefs in the world for 20 years.

The Panel also considers that it is not reasonable for Kuwait to assume that there will be no further natural recovery between 2002 and the start of remediation measures to be funded by the third and fourth F4 instalment awards.

I can see the rocks are over here.

Coral reef in New Caledonia.

And that's more or less the story of the coral reefs of the Caribbean, and increasingly, tragically, the coral reefs worldwide.

How does the reef work? Well, it's very, very simple.

Blue lagoon, white sand, golden skin.

And the view of scientists about how coral reefs work, how they ought to be, was based on these reefs without any fish.

Blasting of reef beds for boulders, and mining the lagoon for sand, can have a long term impact on the fragile ecology of these islands.

In 1995, when I was serving in the Pentagon, China began building structures on Mischief Reef, which is claimed by the Philippines and lies much closer to its shores than to China s. The US issued a statement that we took no position on the competing claims by five states over the 750 or so rocks, atolls, islets, cays, and reefs that comprise the Spratlys, which cover a vast area 425,000 square kilometers (164,000 square miles) of the South China Sea.

Richard Pyle dives the reef's Twilight Zone

Do we have evidence of this? Yes, coral reef systems.

It's built entirely of coral reefs.

The coral reef is the region's prime attraction.

Just to the South are the world famous Tobago Cays.

I told you there's no passage through that reef.

Take it slow along the reef. Eddie, lower the ramp.

Luxembourg . Luxembourg

In respect of the claimed loss of coral reefs, Iran has provided remote sensing evaluation of changes in the coral reef cover sedimentation rate analysis chemical analysis of heavy metals, TPH and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and a study on coral reef growth bands.