Women’s Dive Day Helping to Create Balance Between Humanity and the Ocean “The water doesn’t care who you are where you come from or what do you do. We are all equal underwater and we all speak one language when we dive.” – Nouf Alosaimi, Saudi Arabia PADI® Women’s Dive Day has grown into the most […]
Coral Spawning One of the most spectacular events to occur on a reef is the annual spawning of corals. This phenomenon only happens once a year in many species and its timing is tied to the lunar cycle, the tidal cycle, the photoperiod and seawater temperature. Spawning of the massive star corals (Orbicella spp.) on Roatan,
Sargassum An unusual amount of brown algae called Sargassum has been observed floating in the waters around Roatan during the last months of 2014 and beginning of 2015. In the open water, small but prominent berry-like air bladders called pneumatocysts, keep the Sargassum free floating near the surface so that it can photosynthesize. The thick
