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A stretch of Moorea shoreline abandoned by turtles for a generation has produced nests for three seasons running.
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
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Hundreds of scalloped hammerheads gather over the same seamount each morning, then scatter before noon.
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Photographers keep returning to the same species because its bell moves in a way cameras handle badly and eyes do not.
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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
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