Reef Destruction. A Fishing Net, also known as Ghost Net, caught up on a tropical coral reef. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Reef Destruction. A boats anchor caught up on a tropical coral reef. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Underwater tropical seascape showing a large mooring chain that has carved a trench into a coral reef at Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, Australia. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Close detail of an underwater mooring chain used at Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, Australia. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Reef Destruction. A Fishing Net caught up on a tropical coral reef, situated off Anilao, Philippines. © Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Scuba Diver viewing endangered and diseased Staghorn Coral (Acropora cervicornis) photographed offshore Palm Beach, Florida, USA. This is the northernmost colony of this species found to date in the east coast of the U.S. Protected species. © Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com
Brain Coral (Diploria strigosa) suffering from White Plague, a disease that has ravaged coral reefs in the Western Atlantic. Photo taken in Juno Beach, Florida, USA © Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com
Corals and other marine life slowly recycle and transform man-made garbage and debris into small artificial reefs on the sandy underwater slopes of Lembeh Strait, Indonesia. © Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com
Corals and other marine life slowly recycle and transform man-made garbage and debris into small artificial reefs on the sandy underwater slopes of Lembeh Strait, Indonesia. © Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com
A bottle of bleach used by unscrupulous lobster fishermen to force lobsters out of their holes for capture. The bleach contaminates the crustaceans and underwater environment. © Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com
Corals and other marine life slowly recycle and transform man-made garbage and debris into small artificial reefs on the sandy underwater slopes of Lembeh Strait, Indonesia. © Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com
Coral reef in Komodo National Park destroyed by blast or dynamite fishing, a destructive and unsustainable method of fishing prevalent in select areas of the South Pacific. © Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com
Discarded anchor line damaging delicate sponges and corals on the Breakers Reef in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. © Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com
Reef destruction. A Fishing net, also known as ghost net, caught up on a tropical coral reef. Photo taken in the Philippines. Within the Coral Triangle. © David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com
Reef Manta Ray (Manta alfredi), hovering over a man-made reef of car tires . Also known as Devilfish and Devilray. Found throughout the Indo-Pacific in tropical and subtropical waters, but also recorded in the tropical east Atlantic. Photo Maui, Hawaii © David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com
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