World Oceans Day Our Commitment to the Oceans AKR and RIMS Attend the First National Ocean Fair in Tegucigalpa At Anthony’s Key Resort, World Oceans Day is near our hearts. It is a day that allows us to join others worldwide to recognize the vital role that oceans play in our lives and emphasize the importance of […]
AGRRA Training Empowering Reef Conservation A 5-Day AGRRA Workshop at Anthony’s Key Resort From April 24 to 28, 2023, Anthony’s Key Resort and the Roatan Institute for Marine Sciences provided the facilities and equipment for an intensive reef conservation workshop by Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment (AGRRA) and Healthy Reefs. The five-day workshop trained participants from Honduras, Mexico,
Coral Nursery Program Coral Nursery Outplant Growth Photos of a few of the outplants that Education Coordinator Jennifer Keck and volunteer students groups have done. Their growth in a year is pretty impressive, given that most corals grow only 1 cm a year! You can also see with the Elkhorn how they have grown onto
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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
World Oceans Day World Oceans Day 2021 June 8th, 2021 was World Oceans Day. We couldn’t think of a better place to celebrate than at the Coral Nursery! To mark the event, Jennifer Keck, Education Coordinator at the Roatan Institute for Marine Sciences, led a group of volunteer guests on a Coral Nursery maintenance dive.
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
