connected. coral bleaching is a stress response when zooxanthellae are expelled from their coral hosts due largely to increasing ocean temps. with an increase of just a few degrees, global bleaching events have been noted throughout the world. it’s estimated that without climate action, 90% of the world’s reefs will be gone by 2050…the reefs and their inhabitants.
In an area where bottom trawling has decimated the reef system, these nudibranchs stood out against the backdrop giving hope of life renewed to divers passing by.
nighttime fluorescence
