soc1
1/4 I drifted on shallow water with
my heart filled with grief.

I tried hard to find out a
surviving coral on the reef.

But there was none.

Finally I came upon this dead
coral.

A grave marker.

 

 
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soc2
2/4 Banana Reef is the best
diving point in Noth Male Atoll

The table corals on the reef
top were all dead.

 

 
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The

The change of the reef top of Vadoo Diving Paradise , South Male Atoll

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Mar '99
There is no bleaching coral.
Large school of Green Puller.
It looks just like scattered jewel stones.		 The dead corals lay in heaps.
Small school of Swallow-tail Puller.
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The

The change of The Oblique Coral of Vadoo Diving Paradise , South Male Atoll

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The Oblique Coral is the
highlight of the house reef
of Vadoo.
Various kind of fishes lives
on this beautiful and healthy
coral as a patch reef.		 Fishes were reduced.
But the coral is still healthy.		 The Oblique Coral has dead.
The lower of the body was
covered with sand.

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