Go whale watching, swim through coral gardens, and snorkel in turquoise waters among reef sharks in a South Pacific escape ...

Every reef has its own personality, but a few stand out with good reason. While the Great Barrier Reef is undeniably a world-class dive experience, other coral reefs do a spectacular job illustrating ...

Divers are essentially tourists who love coral reefs and invest a lot of time and effort in watching them. Unfortunately, divers also cause damage to corals, often unintentionally, by disturbing and ...

A deadly and fast-moving disease affecting sea urchins poses an urgent threat to the coral reefs that attract divers from all over the world to the Red Sea. According to a new study from Tel Aviv ...

Research at the University of Sydney has found that scuba-diving tourism—widely promoted as a sustainable way to experience coral reefs—is causing frequent and often hidden damage to fragile marine ...

Over the past decades, recreational diving has emerged as a powerful driver of both economic opportunity and ecological disturbance in coral reef regions worldwide. Divers’ fin kicks, buoyancy errors ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Miriam Porter is based in Toronto and covers vegan and kind travel. Coral reefs are huge underwater structures and some of the ...

DIVEVOLK, headquartered in Zhuhai, China, is a global technology company specializing in underwater smartphone housings and ...

Scuba diving is often presented as a success story for marine ecotourism. But that success also brings a conservation challenge. It brings tourists into direct contact with sensitive coral ecosystems, ...

Mauritius, a subtropical island country in the Indian Ocean, is just over 500 miles east of Madagascar, off the south-eastern coast of Africa. The closest neighbor is Reunion Island. Often referred to ...