Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
Providing science-based solutions to protect and restore ocean health
Over the past few decades there has been a rapid decline in the health of shallow water scleractinian corals (stony or hard corals). Simultaneously, there has been a steady increase in the number of coral diseases being reported. Many of …
The Golden Shadow is back on the western shore of Great Inagua and the day has been packed with activity, as team members leave and arrive, new research projects are launched, and scientific surveys around Great Inagua continue. Early this …
Tavares Thompson (BNT) and Alannah Vellacott (College of the Bahamas) filmed here conducting REEF surveys at Great Inagua Island, Bahamas during the Global Reef Expedition. Video by Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation.
Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation Executive Director CAPT Phil Renaud conducts a photo transect survey at Great Inagua Island, Bahamas during the Global Reef Expedition. Video by Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation.
Executive Director CAPT Phil Renaud and Dive Safety Officer Nick Cautin work together to deploy the Recording Doppler Current Profiler (RDCP) at Great Inagua, Bahamas during the Global Reef Expedition. Video by the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation.
A bluestriped lizardfish eats a live blue chromis during the Global Reef Expedition. Even though we know it must go on all the time, it is rare to see predation among coral reef fish, and rarer still to capture it …
This red-tipped sea goddess nudibranch, foraging the seafloor for food, is amongst the fantastic coral reef creatures filmed during the Global Reef Expedition.
Divers must use extreme caution when approaching the dive boat while diving in rough seas at Great Inagua Island Bahamas under strong ocean currents during the Global Reef Expedition. Video by Amanda Williams, Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
A queen triggerfish on the reef showing rare markings of the intermediate kind, one of the beautiful coral reef creatures filmed underwater during KSLOF Global Reef Expedition at Inagua Island, Bahamas.
In 1997-1998, the marine equivalent of a massive and destructive forest fire overwhelmed numerous coral reefs around the world. Caribbean coral biologists still speak of the coral bleaching event of 1998 in reverential tones. A powerful El Niño season was …
