Great Barrier Reef

Snorkeling St. John St John is a top Caribbean snorkeling location offering an abundance of live corals and rich pelagic life. Picturesque sandy and pebble beaches beckon visitors by the breathtaking scenery of green hills and turquoise waters. Waterlemon Cay, Leinster Bay Waterlemon Cay is adored by snorkelers from all over the world and very often rated as site #1 for St John snorkeling. Leinster Bay excites visitors with its stunning landscape – mix of azure waters and green hills around.…

years. Because of tourism playing a huge role in the Florida keys, our beaches and oceans are left polluted and leaving our reefs to extinction. Not only in the Keys, but throughout Florida our waters are heavily polluted by the great amount of tourism in our state. In the Florida Keys and the Caribbean, there has been a vast decline in staghorn and elkhorn corals leaving the reefs scattered since the 70’s. As I continued to observe and research this topic, I noticed that humans overlook the…

sharks lose their main food source and simply die off. The organisms that were once eaten by the primary consumer fish, such as algae, are now also able to grow and flourish unchallenged. With today’s disappearance of these mid-level fish, coral reefs are being taken over by algae, lethal jellyfish are crowding oceans and lakes, sharks and penguins are dying of starvation (Montaigne,…

habitation the kelp forests supply; they produce a habitat in the whole water column from the top to the bottom where the kelp is rooted. There is a good and bad side to this depending on what you are looking into. In that it indirectly affects the reef fish Stripped surfperch and Black surfperch; overgrazing it allow the foliose algae which allow the stripped surfperch to forage, but decreases the turf for the black surfperch to use. Inversely, if the overgrazing is stopped by the introduction…

Jamaica is a Caribbean island nation, full of mountains, rainforests and reef lined beaches. Many of its resorts are clustered in vibrant Montego Bay, with its British colonial architecture, and Negril, renowned for diving and snorkeling. Jamaica is famed as the birthplace of reggae and its capital Kingston is home to the Bob Marley Museum, dedicated to the city’s most famous son. Jamaica is the third largest island in the Caribbean. Approximately 4,213 square miles. 146 miles from east to west…

“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite. ” as Jules Verne wrote in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Jules Verne was born on February 8, 1828 in Nantes, France. His first writings were first seen in…

Scales are the exoskeleton covering of the fishes found in most of the cartilaginous and bony fishes which provide protection to the body. Scales are small, thin, cornified, calcareous or bony plates which fit closely together or overlap. Scales are complex derivatives of the integument and are derived from the mesenchymal cells of the dermis. They vary greatly in size, shape, structure, and extent, ranging from rigid armour plates in fishes such as shrimp fishes and box fishes, to microscopic…

The Saldanha Bay Oyster Company has two different buildings where they get the oysters market ready. The first is situated by the ocean, where they deliver the oysters. The oysters are also being cleaned and assessed in this building, they are checked to see if they are fully grown and/or if they have diseases. After this process, they are taken to the second facility which is a few meters away from the first one, and in this facility the oysters are further cared for and developed, getting…

peoples blame the government and the local government blaming the national government does not sound like the best solution towed this common problem. In conclusion, as we have seen above in the story of Mombasa environment can lead to a collapse of a great nation such like the Kenyan Mombasa it is up to everybody to ensure that they play their part toward making a clean environment. For every citizen who loves their country, they should show the love for their nation through conserving the…

Coelenterata - Characteristics of coelenterata are as follows: Coelenterata are creatures that live in the sea although there are some who live in fresh water.Coelenterata included in the class of diploblastik. Exterior body composition has epidermal cells and in the inner layer of gastrodermis. Coelenterata have a difference compared to the porifera where although equally hollow but coelenterata has only one hole for all activities such as eating and as a disposal. Another feature is on the…