Significant harvests have been produced from seamounts, often leaving coral beds depleted.

It is a popular tourist destination, attracting visitors for its beaches, coral beds, and sea life.

It was black or some dark color, moored in the middle of a coral bed, no lights.

Of course she'd checked the seating of the motor on its coral bed.

We descend to the end of the rope, 40 feet, and swim together, skimming silently above the coral beds.

The destruction of large coral beds due to heat is also a growing concern.

Minutes later, it lost all forward momentum, and an anchor rattled down on to the collapsed coral bed, clearly visible under the water.

It is extremely detrimental to coral beds since they take centuries to rebuild themselves.

My guess is that the coral bed has been hollowed out and covered.

They found that coral beds mined intensely two decades earlier had not started to regrow.