Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As surfers, we tend to look at the ocean differently than others. Given any random stretch of coastline, we’re quick to analyze, ...

McCulley Marine Services, a key artificial reef deployment company in Florida, closed in 2023 due to rising costs. Florida governments and nonprofits are shifting focus to smaller, nearshore ...

Held at Trevini Ristorante, the fundraiser benefited the Virgil M. Price Memorial Reef and the Underwater Hypoxic Blackout Prevention Foundation. Virgil Price III was a well-known freediver and ...

Martin County sank the former smuggling vessel to become an artificial reef on Nov. 18. Artificial reefs provide 39,000 jobs for Floridians and generates $3.1 billion of economic activity annually.

Pollution and rising sea surface temperatures are decimating the world's coral reef populations. According to a 2020 Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network report, the world's oceans lost roughly 14% of ...

His charges are a type of soft coral called gorgonians. "They're a fundamentally important part of the Caribbean and Floridian coral reef habitat," he says. Foord tends to more than 2,000 tiny soft ...