Around 120 South Pacific islands of French Polynesia offer stunning beaches, clear water, coral reefs, marine life, and marvelous opportunities to explore whether by diving, snorkeling ...

French Polynesia encompasses many islands within the greater region of Polynesia ... where soft sand cedes to warm, clear seas, with coral reefs just offshore. Among the best are Matareva Beach and ...

Researchers working at reefs in Moorea, French Polynesia found that the network of dead coral skeletons left in place by bleaching events caused critical processes to break down, ultimately ...

Rurutu's fringing reef acts as a natural sanctuary for humpback mothers and calves. While French Polynesia is perhaps ... guests can take to the beach to search for native fauna along Rurutu ...

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Angus Kockott, 20, was enjoying a snorkelling session in the shallow waters off Mangareva, French Polynesia, when he was ambushed by what is believed to be a 2.5m grey reef shark. In a moment of ...

Bora, Ra’iatea and Papeete, the region retains a mystique that stems from the 18th-century British sailors who discovered a ...

The Olympic surfing competition will take place in Teahupo’o on the island of Tahiti in French Polynesia. The village annually hosts the Billabong Pro Tahiti ... which have a unique form due to a ...

"They recently sank 27 interlocking concrete structures that will form two hybrid reef units 1,000 feet offshore of North Beach Oceanside Park, Miami Beach. These structures have holes and a ...

Coral reefs are made up of colonies of hundreds to thousands of tiny individual corals, called polyps. These marine invertebrate animals have hard exoskeletons made of calcium carbonate, and are ...

Oysters filter out nutrients and pollutants, build habitats for other aquatic species and, in large enough reefs, can act as natural breakwaters.