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Coral Reef - field photograph

Ocean desk · Issue 02

A Red Sea reef is holding on where its neighbours collapsed

The shallows at Ras Muhammad have survived bleaching events that flattened reefs a hundred kilometres away, and the reason may be in the water itself.

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Issue 02
Sea Turtle - field photograph

Species

A stretch of Moorea shoreline abandoned by turtles for a generation has produced nests for three seasons running.

Yara Mansour6 min read

Hammerhead Shark - field photograph

Species

Hundreds of scalloped hammerheads gather over the same seamount each morning, then scatter before noon.

Diego Marchetti8 min read

Jellyfish - field photograph

Ocean

Photographers keep returning to the same species because its bell moves in a way cameras handle badly and eyes do not.

Hana Okafor5 min read

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Yara Mansour5 min read

Ocean Wave - field photograph

Photo essay

The reef as a working site

Every image in this issue comes from a dive or a shoreline survey. Depth and location are recorded with the photographs rather than added afterwards, because a reef picture without a place is just a colour.

Breaking waves on the Mediterranean coast at Sète, France.

Editor's note

“The ocean is not a backdrop for human stories. It has its own weather, its own calendar, and a shoreline that will outlast the argument about it.”

Yara Mansour · Editor, Tide

The Tide dispatch

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