Sentences with phrase «over the reefs for»

Ensure to experience snorkelling and scuba diving the Great Barrier Reef, or indulge in a Scenic Helicopter Flight over the reef for a birds eye view!

The reef at Encuentro is pretty mellow but you might get some scratches if you walk over the reef for a while.

You'll also make two stops over the reefs for some great snorkeling.

The beach is perfect for your first surf lessons, the reef is a boat ride away and perfect for intermediates to experience surfging over reef for the first time.

There was still plenty of water over the reef for Middle's, and Airport Left was breaking in the waist to head high class.

Primarily a feeding area, some mantas do hover over the reef for a clean within a few feet of divers.

Not exact matches

Other reefs have suffered even more severely from the recent bleaching; Some Pacific islands, for example, have reported over 80 percent coral death rates, Eakin said.

Make a single mistake over the reef off Flash Beach, for instance, and «you're hamburger over razor blades,» he says.

Strong swimmers can make their way out to the reef for some more serious snorkeling, or sign out a paddle boat to head over with the family.

WCS has been working in the northwest of Madagascar for over 10 years to create marine protected areas to protect marine turtles and other important marine ecosystems and species including coral reefs, seagrasses, dugongs and sharks and rays.

By comparing the contemporary global distribution of tropical marine fish1 with that of the paleo - reefs, the researchers were for the first time able to test the key role of habitats that persisted over many glacial periods and thus served as biodiversity refugia.

For those who view reefs as merely beautiful scenery, this may not sound like much to fuss over.

For more than three billion years the mats captured and precipitated sediments, building reefs over a hundred metres high and hundreds of kilometres long, and changing in composition and complexity as new forms of life appeared.

Our studies showed that these reefs are not only hotspots for biodiversity, but they also turn over a considerable amount of carbon, rivaling shallower coastal environments.

As waves break and reduce in height over reefs, this drives currents that are very important for the transport of nutrients and larvae.

When carbon dioxide, CO2, from the atmosphere is absorbed by the ocean, it forms carbonic acid (the same thing that makes soda fizz), making the ocean more acidic and decreasing the ocean's pH. This increase in acidity makes it more difficult for many marine organisms to grow their shells and skeletons, and threatens coral reefs the world over.

Over recent decades, a strong community of researchers and concerned citizens alike has dedicated themselves to investigating the dangers facing reefs and to developing solutions for their ongoing survival.

Biologists had already observed this interaction in living systems — a coral reef whose millions of tightly networked members could communicate data about weather over hundreds of miles and a slime mold whose millions of member cells, spread out over acres, could coalesce and take organized action for survival at a moment's notice.

«Because these may be our best hope for coral reef persistence over the next 100 years.»

As greenhouse gas pollution reshapes the invisible mosaic of seawater chemicals washing over Australia's Great Barrier Reef, corals there are being locked in escalating conflicts with each other for survival.

For example, on Heron Island Reef in the GBR, variations in pH and aragonite saturation state over one day were greater than the predicted changes in ocean chemistry globally by 2050.

They evaluated the amount of plastic waste on the reefs, and visually examined over 124,000 corals for signs of disease.

For each reef, the researchers recorded «severe bleaching» events — where more than 30 % of corals were bleached at the scale of tens to hundreds of kilometres — and «moderate bleaching» episodes — where less than 30 % of corals were affected over the same scale.

«These temperatures are particularly extreme in regions when the tidal range is large when compared to the water depth over a reef, which can cause shallow water to «pond» within reefs for extended periods of time each day,» Lowe said in a statement.

«For some surviving corals in the northern Great Barrier Reef, over 50 % of the coral cells are dead.

Over a million species, most not yet described [119], are estimated to populate coral reef ecosystems generating crucial ecosystem services for at least 500 million people in tropical coastal areas.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

For two hundred years, fleets of treasure galleons stuffed with silver and gold and emeralds had plied the Caribbean Sea, crisscrossed it every which way, from Key West down to Cartagena, from the Yucatán over to the Windward Islands, and every so often, one of those unpredictable West Indian cyclones would come spinning across the Caribbean and slam half the fleet onto shallow reefs, which ripped open the hulls and spewed that treasure all over the ocean floor.

The largest tank [photo # 1] is a 240 - gallon reef tank that has been set up for over 22 years.

The conditions are excellent for viewing exotic reef wild life year round and people visit from all over the world to see whales migrate through our Hawaiian waters just off Olowalu.

Cairns has the only major international airport in Tropical North Queensland and year on year it is continually servicing more and more foreign airlines from the world over with the growing demand from tourists to experience the reef for themselves.

Ensure to ask us about Optional Day Trips for your first 2 days in Cairns - perhaps Gold Class Kuranda, or Daintree & Mossman Gorge, or maybe even a scenic helicopter flight over the stunning Great Barrier Reef from $ 175 per person.

This week in Lembongan... The common goatfish is often overlooked by experienced divers as they glide their eyes over the reef and through the coral looking for a crazy small creatures or that next colourful nudibranch.

Belize's reef is home to over 1,400 species of plants and animals and is a major source of tourism revenue for the country of Belize.

The waterfall was originally a single stream, but gold hungry Scotsmen, hoping for an easier grasp of the reef over which the river streamed, and therefore an easier grasp of the precious gold the reef contained, dynamited the river in an attempt to divert its flow.

Stay in the most expensive luxury hotels and resorts and holiday homes, enjoy a spa treatment every day, drink fine wines and eat in award winning restaurants, have a private chauffer show you the sites of the region or charter your own private boat for the day to see the Great Barrier Reef or fly a helicopter over the magnificent waterfalls of the surrounding mountains.

Fly back to Cairns over the stunning Great Barrier Reef for fantastic photo opportunities.

Hells Mouth is known as the capital of surf in Wales, it gets busy but with a four mile stretch of beach, you are guaranteed to find a space to catch some waves — watch out for the northern reef either side of the high tide as it can get over crowded.

Holiday homes in Palm Cove are an extremely popular type of accommodation option now so it is advisable to book well ahead in advance for your next Great Barrier Reef vacation especially over the peak season, school holidays and special event periods as these homes are in high demand for wedding groups, girls weekend getaways, boys fishing and golfing weekends and the normal big family or group holiday retreat.

Heron Island is known the world over for its excellent Great Barrier Reef dive sites, coral gardens and pinnacles.

Many visitors to the Great Barrier Reef stop over at Noosa on Queensland's Sunshine Coast for a chance to experience the miles of pristine coastline and lush hinterland.

The uncrowded beach directly out our front door features a hollow, super fast left point breaking over a shallow reef that provides long rides in the tube perfect for experienced surfers.

Take a low level scenic flight over the Reef to Lizard Island for a bird's eye view of some of the reefs you'll be diving.

It is known for its incredible coral reefs, its massive quantity of cruise ship visitors (over 1 million every year), and for being in the backdrop of all of my photos from Playa del Carmen.

While Nusa Penida is most famous for its diving, it isn't too shabby when it comes to snorkelling and it is seeing more visitors coming over on snorkelling trips from Lembongan now that the best reef there has been trashed by idiocy.

You will have ample opportunities for snorkeling over colorful reefs and in Turtle Town with Hawaii's endangered green sea turtles and a variety of colorful marine life.

9.30 am: Board a light aircraft for a low level flight over the reef back to Cairns (flight time approx. 1 hour).

A perfect setting to watch the sunrise over the reef as you enjoy your morning coffee or a place to linger in the evening for stargazing, your verandah allows instant access to the beautiful pool accented with tropical planters.

Named for its characteristic reef development, this dive site features a profile with two distinct reef zones over a distance of about 800 ft.. A shallow reef extends from sea level to 40 ft and a deeper reef begins at 70 ft, extending to more than 100 ft at the wall.

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