Tim Cahill

I have no problem with the adventure travel movement. It makes better, more sensitive people. If you get people diving on a coral reef, they're going to become more respectful of the outdoors and more concerned with the threats that places like that face and they're going to care more about protecting them than they would have before.

American Writer

Brian Skerry

Sharks don't particularly have a great interest in divers. It seemed that in a normal dive, I would jump in the water, and one or two gray reef sharks would swim in and kind of check me out - and then they would keep their distance. So they weren't particularly threatening or anything to be afraid of.

American Photographer

Honeysuckle Weeks

The coral that grows at the edge of the reef is always the strongest and most colourful because it faces the greatest battering. It's the same if you're called Honeysuckle. I'd have had a totally different life if I'd been called Mary.

British Actress

Jeff Goodell

What is likely to vanish - or be transformed beyond recognition - are many of the things we think of when we think of Australia: the barrier reef, the koalas, the sense of the country as a land of almost limitless natural resources.

American Author

Alexander Gould

Practically the whole world depends on coral reefs, so if the coral reefs get all killed, then the ocean will start going out of whack, and if the ocean goes out of whack, something might happen on land.

American Actor

Sheherazade Goldsmith

Coral reefs represent some of the world's most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the sea's most exquisite species will not survive.

English Environmentalist

Johan Rockstrom

Managing forests, rivers, grasslands, and coral reefs in sustainable ways makes them more resilient and increases their ability to absorb greenhouse gases, which is good for business.

Environmentalist

Albert II, Prince of Monaco

I am delighted to see that the issue of coral reefs is receiving the attention it deserves.

Monacan Royalty

Sylvia Earle

Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.

American Scientist

Navjot Singh Sidhu

A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

Indian Entertainer

Reefs are vital ecosystems; mentioning reefs often brings up environmental topics or concerns.

Environmental Significance

Reefs are popular for recreational activities like diving and snorkeling, which might be implied in context.

Recreation Areas

Reefs can be hazards for boats; mentioning them may invoke caution or danger in nautical contexts.

Navigation Hazard

Reefs are home to diverse marine life; references might be related to discussions on marine species.

Marine Biodiversity

Sailors reef sails in strong winds; the context could imply an adjustment or response to changing conditions.

Weather Response

Reefing is specific to sailing; using it outside this context might confuse listeners not familiar with nautical terms.

Sailing Jargon

Reefing sails is a safety measure in sailing; it can hint at prudent, cautious actions in larger life contexts.

Safety Maneuver

Properly reefing requires skill; references could imply expertise or the need for experience.

Skilled Technique

 And the second thing I learned was that I knew, with profound certainty, that this is exactly what I was going to do for the rest of my life. I had to focus all my energies towards going to find new species of things down on deep coral reefs. When you think of a coral reef, this is what most people think these big, hard, elaborate corals,

Richard Pyle: Exploring...

 It is a way of preserving the reef and dedicating ourselves to something else, They began to prefer transporting tourists because they knew they got paid well and they consumed less fuel. Besides, they were home early and that's what encouraged them to give up the fishing.

How One Community Saved...

 Small agile fish use the jellies as moving reefs for protection, darting between tentacles without ever touching them. Nudibranchs, which are sea slugs covered in protective slime, can actually steal the jelly's defenses by eating the cnidocytes

How does a jellyfish...

 if I could bring the world everybody in this country to this particular reef and show them these volcanic vents I could change minds about climate change when people experience something directly they see it in a different light this

Can VR help create...

 such as biodegradable caskets, urns that sprout trees, and burial suits that grow mushrooms. Eternal reefs take that concept to the depths of the ocean using a mixture of ashes and cement to create marine habitats for sea life.

What happens to our...

 The forest can stay resilient and recover from change. But that's not true in every case. In some environments, taking away just one important component can undermine the entire system. Take coral reefs, for instance.

Why is biodiversity so...

 the amount of marine life to be found in the hundred meters of the wreck of the yongala is truly staggering arguably it's a greater concentration of life than on any spot on the barrier reef itself

ONE HOUR Of Amazing...

 this sort of parental care may be surprising but it's vitally important they protect the next generation of reef helpers all the creatures here play their part

Titan Triggerfish...

 They must still visit the surface to breathe. But they are beautifully adapted to life at sea hunting for fish around the island reefs.

Old Woman Is Master Sea...

 triangle the custard of the richest coral reefs in the world