Warmer Water, Rita Harm Gulf's Coral Reefs
January 29, 2006 @ 04:31 PM (EST)
Source: Rep-am.com
Hurricane Rita's pounding waves and a hotter-than-usual Gulf of Mexico took a toll on the Gulf of Mexico's only government-protected coral reefs about 100 miles off the Louisiana and Texas coasts.
Besides hardcore divers and offshore oil workers, few people see the multicolored reefs, manta rays, lobsters, sharks and fish of all stripes that dart in and out of Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary...
Comments
Be the first to add a comment to this article.
You must be logged in to comment.
Related Content
April 2, 2011, 11:20AM
Biologists have identified a new species of nudibranch found off Florida in the Gulf of Mexico. more
September 28, 2009, 4:25PM
U.S. scientists in the Gulf of Mexico unexpectedly netted a 19.5-foot (5.9-meter) giant squid off the coast of Louisiana more
June 19, 2009, 6:32PM
A team of NOAA-supported scientists are forecasting that the "dead zone" off the coast of Louisiana and Texas in the Gulf of more
March 3, 2009, 2:00AM
A bright pink Albino dolphin was spotted in Lake Calcasieu, Louisiana more
July 18, 2008, 2:00AM
NOAA-supported scientists from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium and Louisiana State University are forecasting that more
Sponsors
Dive Industry News
What's New
