[Coral-List] Amazing coral cover!

[Pawlik, Joseph]

Greetings, coral-listers,

I've just posted a video dive survey of Cordelia Banks, just off the south coast of Roatan, Honduras:
https://youtu.be/FHcUmUry8Vk

This site has amazing coral cover for a contemporary Caribbean reef - anyone know of other Caribbean sites that still look like this?
More surprising is that this site is just a few km from Coxen Hole, the largest town on Roatan, just off the coast of the airport, and very close to the transit channel for the harbor and cruise ship port.

For those of you studying coral resiliency, I would think this site would be worth sampling.

Enjoy the video,

Joe

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Joseph R. Pawlik, Professor,
Dept. of Biology and Marine Biology
UNCW Center for Marine Science
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