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Our team continued reef assessments along middle shelf locations to better characterize the spatial extent of the disturbance. We first examined two locations along the unnamed submerged reef platform described yesterday, first at the northwestern tip, about 6.4 km west …
For our third dive of the day we surveyed a submerged mid shelf reef, adjacent and west of a deep water channel that bisects the Farasan Banks. As I descended to the bottom, something seemed amiss. Unlike the crystal clear, …
Saturday, April 4. Our research team boarded the Golden Shadow on Saturday morning, departing from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia around mid day for a 7 hour (120 mile) journey to the northern end of the Farasan Banks. We reached our first …
Focus for today: Symbiosis on the reef. Target key stage: Key Stage 4: National Science Curriculum, Dual Award, Sc2, 5a: the distribution and relative abundance of organisms in habitats can be explained using ideas of interdependence, adaptation, competition and predation. …
This underwater video of Symbiosis on a Coral Reef was taken during Living Oceans Foundation Farasan Islands Expedition filming of coral ecology videos. About Symbiosis The word symbiosis comes from the Greeks, meaning ‘together’ and ‘life’, so literally it means: …
Focus for today: Farasan Earthquakes (Earthquakes in the Farasan region.) Target key stage: Key Stage 4: National Science Curriculum, Dual Award, Sc2, 4a: variation arises from genetic causes, environmental causes and a combination of both. Key information: The Farasan Islands …
This Ghost Fishing Underwater Video was taken during the Scuba Transect Survey of the Farasan Islands Expedition to the Red Sea. About Ghost Fishing As we completed our first Scuba transect survey of the day we noticed a fish trap …
The Reef Habitat Underwater Video was taken during the Farasan Islands Expedition to the Red Sea. About The Reef It is common for human visitors to a coral reef to assume that the beautiful live coral to be the only …
Focus for today: Red Sea coral disease. Target key stage: Key Stage 4: National Science Curriculum, Double Award, Sc2, 4a – Variation arises from genetic causes, environmental causes, and a combination of both. Key information: Over the past 20 years …