Category: Hawaii

Koloa Dive 1-27-2014

Koloa Dive 1-27-2014 3 days ago I dove at Koloa Landing with Claire, Ben and several additional divers, we were teaching to recognize coral diseases. We did not find much disease which is good but we did find a new type of algae killing a lot of the giant old growth mound corals, which is Read More …

Ahukini Dive 1-27-2014

Ahukini Dive 1-27-2014 This dive site had some of the most beautiful giant mound corals growing on the jetty and in the the mouth of the bay a few years ago. I found the first outbreak of cyanobacterial disease on the rice corals about three years ago and since then hundreds of large rice corals Read More …

Tunnels Beach… Going, Going, Gone!

Tunnels Beach… Going, Going, Gone! Chip Fletcher at UH is one of the most well known experts studying sea level rise in Hawaii along with NOAA. He told me five years ago that the beach at Tunnels will be gone within ten years! He was right but it is happening now five years early.

Reef Fish DVD Proceeds Donated

Reef Fish DVD Proceeds Donated I have put together an extremely comprehensive video cataloging over 350 species of Hawaiian reef fish. Along with this DVD, I have been monitoring a bacterial infection of the rice coral in Kauai for the past 2 years and suddenly just this summer, the infection rate became alarmingly high, with Read More …