1. The ship ran aground on a submerged reef.

2. Waves mountain - high broke over the reef.

3. Lagoon Reef is one of the best resort hotels.

4. An unspoilt coral reef encloses the bay.

5. Our boat foundered on a reef.

6. We went snorkelling along the Great Barrier Reef.

7. We went diving on the coral reef.

8. Big waves hammered at the coral reef.

9. The ship was wrecked on a coral reef.

10. Our ship was thrown on a reef.

11. The island is encircled by a coral reef.

12. The incoming tides were bathing the coral reef.

13. A ship got piled up on a reef.

14. A coral reef is built by the accretion of tiny, identical organisms.

15. As the island subsided the reef grew upwards and outwards.

16. lots of individual reefs, around about 2,900 separate reef systems which make up the Great Barrier Reef.

17. The first time you dive on a coral reef is an experience you will never forget.

18. The abundant reef growth on Gotland was shown to be coeval with that in Estonia.

19. It's a small reef with a lighthouse on it.

20. Ultimately this reef runs on electricity.

21. Queensland set stringent rules concerning diving on the reef.

22. Except sunlight, which pours on the artificial reef in a steady burst of halide energy.

23. Marine scientists were pretty sure a coral reef, like any complex ecosystem, must be assembled in the correct order.

24. These are part of the fascination of the reef; the sunlit upper portions are rich in life.

25. While we're in Australia, we're hoping to squeeze in a trip to the Barrier Reef.

26. Seeing over a thousand species of fish is part of the fascination of the reef.

27. With great difficulty, the fisherman manoeuvred his small craft close to the reef.

28. Over 1,500 different species of fish inhabit the waters around the reef.

29. It's only been latterly that we've discovered that it's lots of individual reefs, around about 2,900 separate reef systems which make up the Great Barrier Reef.

30. Soon they were outward bound for the Great Barrier Reef.

1. The ship ran aground on a submerged reef.

2. Waves mountain - high broke over the reef.

3. Lagoon Reef is one of the best resort hotels.

4. An unspoilt coral reef encloses the bay.

5. While we're in Australia, we're hoping to squeeze in a trip to the Barrier Reef.

6. Seeing over a thousand species of fish is part of the fascination of the reef.

7. With great difficulty, the fisherman manoeuvred his small craft close to the reef.

8. Big waves hammered at the coral reef.

9. The ship was wrecked on a coral reef.

10. lots of individual reefs, around about 2,900 separate reef systems which make up the Great Barrier Reef.

31. With a little care in their placement in the tank, the mushroom polyps can be thoroughly recommended for the reef aquarium.

32. For their sins, they were both nailed and all but crucified on the reef.

33. The reef fishes display an almost endless variety of colors and patterns.

34. Five years after Gomez launched the coral reef, it is only now configuring itself into self-sustenance.

35. It is a long and seemingly insurmountable list of challenges to the health and survival of the reef.

36. The reef consists of 130 species of coral and supports over 300 species of fish as well as other assorted marine creatures.

37. Large shoals may be found on quite shallow reefs or close to the walls of steep drop-offs beyond the protecting reef.

38. The undertaking will enable scientists to test theories about how marine life moves about the reef.

39. Rather than be blown up, Muller grounded his ship on a coral reef and surrendered.

40. After a day on the Great Barrier Reef enjoying the white water rafting, the serious rugby commenced.

41. My few days were intermediate - cloudy, rough, with the reef and turbid water yet to fully recover.

42. The fish live in a shallow tropical lagoon, which is enclosed by a coral reef.

43. Here, on a nine-mile reef just off the coast, boyfriend Cuan had taught Elizabeth to scuba-dive.

44. Inside the reef, on calmer waters, the boy gratefully nodded off to sleep, exhausted by his ordeal.

45. Above: Drifting slowly up the reef wall, curious fish surround a diver.

46. He'd sailed these waters for six months and knew every reef and coral head shallow enough to be a threat.

47. Have you ever seen an ocean wave pass over a submerged reef?

48. Such feather stars are very numerous in some reef habitats today.

49. The sea was such a mess that it took him a few moments to be sure of the reef.

50. Despite the protection of the reef, there was sufficient sea running to make the patrol boat roll through sixty degrees.

51. Corals also grow on the lagoon slope and in patches, known as reef knolls, on the lagoon floor.

52. Some degraded sections of higher level limestone on present reef flats may represent interglacial or Post-glacial higher sea levels.

53. There is strong evidence to suggest that the Great Barrier Reef will have disappeared in 20 years time.

54. We rolled heavily as I clung to the shrouds scanning the reef as best I could.

55. I stepped on to the reef, reached for my duffel bag, and lofted it to my shoulder.

56. They sailed on over the friendly shallows toward the sun, levitating behind the waves on the reef.

57. Adey had grown an artificial self-regenerating coral reef once before as a museum exhibit at the Smithsonian.

58. Then they spotted a fishing boat, near the northernmost reef.

59. During the same time, certain species dominating the initial reef disappeared.

60. We can find some living clues back on the reef.

61. Cruise ships, already sailing the seas of the Mesoamerican Reef more than ever before, are gaining in size and frequency.

62. The other is a piece of reef shaped like a fungal bracket of concentric rings, or perhaps like a footprint cast.

63. Like most of the true crabs they can be very destructive in the reef tank.

64. Then the breakers were all astern and Terrie was coming round to starboard to motor up the back of the reef.

65. It was even proposed at one point that the reef itself should simply be drenched in copper.

66. Ahead of them, Trent could hear the surf smashing on the reef, heavy now and threatening.

67. Where does the synthetic coral reef end and the chanting wave machine begin?

68. With the reef below, and a boat nearby to give them assistance they decided to try and land.

69. But the young fish still suffer and stocks are dwindling, so that fish-eating birds such as the reef egret are decreasing in numbers.

70. Another time, a photographer had ventured on to the reef that rose up from the sea at the far corner.

71. Two passages through the reef, both navigable for vessels up to 5,000 tons.

72. The reef is indeed a way of life, not a particular kind of creature.

73. Now they were steep walls of water dropping like guillotines on to the reef.

74. The remarkable natural richness of the coral reef has been squeezed further into the hyper-natural richness of a synthetic reef.

75. We were centred up on the gap in the reef: this must be it!

76. They look as although they belong in a warm and sunny tropical coral reef rather than the dark and cold abyss.

77. This is only well developed on the seaward side of the windward reef of atolls.

78. And yet the reef has managed to grow, and has achieved enormous diversity.

79. If the system started to drift away from the requirements of a coral reef, Gomez would flush the trays.

80. It was near the ocean and Heather could hear the waves crashing on the reef from where she lay in the bed.

81. This is true whether you are in a desert or a forest or swimming on a coral reef.http://

82. The coral reefs of Walindi bay are probably the most diverse reef systems on our planet.

83. I hunt black-and-white fish as they dart through red coral reef, when suddenly I am wrenched from be-hind.

84. The algae consumed waste products from the reef and under the intense artificial sunlight they proliferated in stringy green mats.

85. It's only thirty miles away, but there's no direct method of getting there because of the reef.

86. It does help our chances of success however, if we can better understand why reef fish are aggressive towards each other.

87. Until recently Gomez had to feed the fish and invertebrates dwelling on the synthetic reef with supplemental food.

88. Usually there is a narrow reef flat separated from the lagoon floor by a steeper slope.

89. For a moment Trent thought of letting the whole damn lot of them go up on the reef.

90. Perhaps, after all, this is indeed some exotic coastline-maybe some coral reef, teeming with life of all kinds.

91. Fish tucked into crevices peer out, while crabs scavenge over the reef and probe soft corals for food.

92. Thus, the fringing reef would be changed into a barrier reef and finally into an atoll if the island subsided completely.

93. Most of that time he dived for red snapper along the edge of a break in the reef.

94. The shales are folded in an anticline and cleaved with development of cross cutting and saddle reef quartz veins.

95. Cyaniding a reef, on the other hand, kills the reef, by allowing bacteria and algae to set in.

96. It is less developed, or even absent, within the lagoon and on the seaward side of the leeward reef.

97. The seaweed in reconnaissance photos turned out to be coral reef that interfered with the landings.

98. the multifarious life forms in the coral reef.

99. Skeletal debris swept landward from a reef.

100. The finished Reef Knot with two very short ends.

101. The ship was wrecked on the hidden reef.

102. They spotted a fishing boat, near the northernmost reef.

103. A minke whale swims near Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

104. An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef.

105. The ship was bilged by a submerged reef.

106. They were wrecked on the reef.

107. The ship struck on a reef.

108. The captain ordered to reef the sails for docking.

109. More than 10,000 species live on the Barrier Reef.

110. A dwarf minke whale swims near Australia's Great Barrier Reef .

111. So hopefully, this article has belayed some of the fears and corrected some of the myths of keeping lionfish in reef aquaria.

112. Inspired by the diverse marine life of the Red Sea, the exquisite Butterflyfish has been captured in exclusive Swarovski crystal. This beautiful species can be found in a reef environment.

113. The Great Barrier Reef has long been known to and utilised by the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and is an important part of local groups' cultures and spirituality.

114. Schools of silversides swim with a diver off western Grand Cayman . Proliferating in summer, silversides nourish larger reef species such as jacks, whose numbers have fallen due to overfishing.

115. Flat knot , also named reef knot, is old, common but quite applied knot.

116. Hillary and Robert are snorkeling near the Great Barrier Reef.

117. Resumes are being accepted to work as an island caretaker in Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

118. Spanish hogfish are found in shallow coral reef areas and have two upper teeth.

119. So stressed middle-sized fish make for both happy coral and happy predators—in short, a healthy and highly productive reef.

120. The iconic reef is being damaged by pesticides and sediment from farms that seep into waterways.

121. A low offshore island or reef, especially in the Gulf of Mexico; a cay.

122. And Hainan's mangrove, rich coral reef are also well - known attractions.

123. The Reef extends 1,200 miles along Australia's northeast coast through the Coral Sea.

124. The new project will involve a species of staghorn coral from the Great Barrier Reef, Acropora millepora.

125. Bleaching occurs when the tiny plant-like coral organisms die, often because of higher temperatures, and leave behind only a white limestone reef skeleton.

126. But call these projects "stimulus," and suddenly a ship headed for the reef of economic disaster might sail through Congress flying the flag of economic recovery.

127. Stonefish mostly live above the tropic of Capricorn, often found in the shallow tropical marine waters of the Pacific and Indian oceans, ranging from the Red Sea to the Queensland Great Barrier Reef.

128. Belize is home to the world's second biggest coral reef, and visitors should take a boat trip out to see it.

129. Won Ton, Angel and Moby will find us and help lift us off this reef.

130. The incomplete beach and reef flat is situated on the active zone of coastal process.

131. The mountains to the Atoll Reef, Ocean Theater, Museum Haitao, mainly mobile games.

132. Other famous Natural Heritage Sites are the Great Barrier Reef and the Grand Canyon.

133. But this reef fish could be in danger of losing its smarts as levels of CO2 in the ocean continue to rise due to human activity, according to a new study.

134. Besides, it that comes to berg in management or submerged reef conceals all problems in management.

135. In addition to the fishermen catch lobster gill net, net enclosures , there are also put on oxygen into the underwater reef Zhuobu the hole.

136. Whatever skerry or reef you land on, Alas, my love, that I cannot be by you.

137. Identify white margate fish with tips from a scuba instructor in this free video about coral reef animals.

138. I hurriedly with body of the hanging drawbar, quickly hook lives a coral reef, mega honked not to put, otherwise, I would like a leaf samples may transpire coiled where.

139. A shockingly colored sea star clings to a reef off Bunaken Island in Sulawesi, Indonesia.

140. An international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of sponges taken from the Barrier Reef.

141. The Great Barrier Reef is disappearing at an increased rate because of climate damage.

142. A point on a sandy reef off eastern North Carolina southwest of Cape Hatteras. A lighthouse was built here in 1859.

143. Snorkeling was amazing, daily seeing reef sharks, parrot fish and sting rays.

144. And I really love to see the Great Barrier Reef.

145. A giant green turtle rests on a coral reef at a diving site near the Malaysian island of Sipadan in Celebes Sea east of Borneo November 7, 2005.

146. A large rust - colored gorgonian sea fan perches against a reef in Micronesia.

147. Pudong and Atoll Reef aquarium which is worth more to ah?

148. Queensland Premier Anna Bligh says that man-made threats present serious challenges to the reef, which is a world heritage site.

149. A fringing reef forms around an island in the tropics.

150. A dizzying array of dots and squiggles decorates a striped boxfish (Ostracion solorensis) gliding by a coral reef near Indonesia's Tukangbesi Islands.

151. The Coral Sea covers 780,000 square kilometers and borders the? for Reef off Australia coast.

152. The attractive effect of 3 fish reef models of different diameter on black porgy with behavioral analysis method is studied.

153. Earlier in the day, a 31-year-old man was attacked by a bronze whaler shark while spearfishing near Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

154. What does Independence Hall, an 18th-century building site in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, share with the teeming sea life of Australia's Great Barrier Reef?

155. The Main Chromitite Seam and the Merensky Reef do not outcrop well.

156. The nationwide biggest shark museum at present, where there are thousands of fierce lemon shark, nurse shark, as well as Whitetip Reef Shark, Blacktip Reef Shark, Suction Shark, etc.

157. The Coral Sea covers 780,000 square kilometers and borders Reef off Australia's coast.

158. A school of fish clusters near a reef in French Polynesia's Tuamotu Archipelago.

159. Sleek, gray reef sharks cruise past a remote - control camera in the waters the Bikini Atoll.

160. This photo was taken at Shark Reef Aquarium at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada.

161. Our ship was able to haul up just before it hit the submerged reef.

162. Yongshu Jiao soldiers'last time to hoist the flag on this reef.

163. But China’s relatively avuncular premier Wen Jiabao has snorkelled this reef before.

164. Photo Gallery : Marine Marvels A freckle - face blenny peeks from its reef burrow in the Solomon Islands.

165. The Exxon Valdez had run aground on the Bligh Reef, and was leaking oil.

166. Indo-Pacific: East Africa to Samoa, north to the Ryukyu Islands, south to the Great Barrier Reef and New Caledonia.

167. Trebucket is a low island, perhaps a mile round, covered with coconuts, just raised above the level of the sea and surrounded by a reef so that it can be approached only on one side.

168. The shrimps, which can smash their way through aquarium glass, are being housed in a reinforced tank at the Blue Reef aquarium in Hastings, East Sussex.

169. Patterns in Nature: Coral A palette of soft corals grows along a reef near Fiji.

170. Tomtate grunts and yellowtail snapper swim through Neptune Memorial Reef, an underwater cemetery with decorative arches and columns installed on the ocean floor off Miami Beach.

171. The Scarborough Reef team has expressed appreciation to ARRL, the Chinese Sport Radio Association, the Philippine Amateur Radio Association, NCDXF and INDEXA for their support.

171. try its best to collect and make good sentences.

172. Beyond the coral reef the open sea was dark blue.

173. Octopus, Clown trigger fish, Barracuda, Batfish, stunning healthy colourful coral reef, both hard and soft corals.

174. A "Reef Knot" is basically a Standard Shoelace Knot minus the loops.

175. Environmental groups welcome the Queensland plan to protect the Great Barrier Reef.

176. They are found in seagrass, rubble - strewn sand bottom , and coral reef.

177. Because the Reef Knot has neither loops nor draw strings , many people picking it apart.

178. Identify surgeonfish with tips from a scuba instructor in this free video about coral reef animals.

179. Lacy breakers lap the coral reef that rings Bora-Bora, an ancient sunken volcano 165 miles (266 kilometers) northwest of Tahiti in French Polynesia's Society Islands.

180. The formation, development, and distribution of reef facies carbonate rocks were controlled in extensity by the South China Sea evolution tectonic setting and great deltas coming from continents.

181. A single lionfish can reduce recruitment of other fish on a reef by a staggering 85 percent, and these apex predators are threatening both commercial fishing and tourism.

182. Here, a gray reef shark swims amid a school of black triggerfish in the waters off Starbuck Island.

183. 'It's in such a delicate part of the reef and the ship is in such a badly damaged state, that managing this process will require all the specialist expertize that we can bring to bear.'

184. Sandstone monoliths , dubbed the Temple of the Sun and the Temple of the Moon, tower over the desert flats of Utah's Capitol Reef National Park.

185. Shipping should be prohibited from going through the reef - the additional costs of transportation are trivial.

186. Circumvent the non - systematic risk, stock selection to avoid dangerous reef mines.

187. The Great Barrier Reef stretches for more than 2,000 kilometers along Australia's northeast coast.

188. We know that there are many contributing factice factors to the world coral reefs, we water quality of the reef.

189. As being made from iron-wood or ferroconcrete , the most fishing vessels are suitable used for artificial reef material.

190. Next they sailed up the east coast between the mainland and the Great Barrier Reef.

191. Overlooking the Great Barrier Reef, like the surging sea of green blooming gem general.

192. Mark Geddes is a divemaster for a popular Great Barrier Reef water adventure group.

193. You have to visit the Great Barrier Reef? it's just amazing!

194. It was a stiff pull and even within the reef the sea was choppy.

195. Part of the Great Barrier Reef islands, is submerged in the sea of mountain peak.

196. Seemingly fearless, butterfly fish in the Tuamotu archipelago in French Polynesia swim around a coral reef.

197. Oil is gushing from the tanker which ran aground on the reef.

198. The Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia, for instance—the largest biological structure in the world—is simply the accumulation of generation after generation of coral and coralline algae.

199. The wave flapped the reef and stirred layers of spoondrift.

200. "The way our state is dealing with class size is nearly criminal," said Chris Kirchner, an English teacher at Coral Reef Senior High School in Miami.

201. A sloop that had run foul of the submerged reef.

202. On a coral reef in the Bonin Islands, an abandoned wormhole is home to a hermit crab.

203. Out on the water flickering lights and soft - voiced choruses marked the fishers returning from the reef.

204. Alas, my love, that I cannot be by you, Whatever skerry or reef you land on.

205. Each plebe candidate is given a copy of the Reef Points, a small blue book with the rules, regulations, and mores of the Navy and the Naval Academy.

206. That ship and all hands on board were lost on the reef.

207. Kawashima in the sand fly on a reef site and found that "Zeus" has been broken into two parts round and capsized .

208. Hawksbills are endangered because their beachfront nesting grounds and coral reef feeding grounds are shrinking. Humans also target the turtles for food and shell products.

209. For instance, when hurricane Bebe hit Tuvalu in 1972 it deposited 140 hectares of sedimentary debris onto the eastern reef, increasing the area of the main island by 10 per cent.

210. There is also the Dead Sea, and Aqaba , where we have an incredible Coral Reef!

211. Mizen Top-Mast Shroud Shows the reef band, cringles, and points on the sails.

212. Voyages, an Australian tour operator, is advertising for a general manager for its Lizard Island resort, a post that comes with a two-bedroom house overlooking the Great Barrier Reef.

213. Scorpions, spiders, and other creatures also fluoresce when exposed to UV light, Reef and colleagues note, suggesting that the sunscreen effect has evolved more than once.

214. In this study, the reef area in the embayment was divided into two different zones, zone A dominated by branching corals and zone B, by sea-anemone.

215. Proliferating in summer, silversides nourish larger reef species such as jacks, whose numbers have fallen due to overfishing.

216. A green turtle floats past a reef toward open waters near Palau in the Pacific Ocean.

217. The monster again became an islet, rock, or reef , but a runaway reef , unfixed and elusive.

218. MV Rena is grounded 13.5 nautical miles off Tauranga. The reef can be seen to the right of the vessel.

219. Walter Adey had about 1 percent attrition rate in his previous partially closed coral reef.

220. The large number of barrier reef cluster New Caledonia like the peals in the hands.

221. In the northwest of China, auriferous altered cataclasite, adular- sericite quartz vein and quartz reef types are present, and metallogenetic epoch is mainly Hercynian period.

222. Industrial plumbing fixtures are the surrogate Pacific for the reef.

223. Environmental groups welcome Queensland plan to protect The the Great Barrier Reef.

224. Sitting on the reef and listening to the spoondrift , I suddenly felt my rod shaking. I raised the rod and a fish was caught.

225. One wrong move and the reef could unravel in a day.

226. That's how a group of students and staff end up cleaning Barracuda Reef off John U. Lloyd State Park, Florida.

227. Photo Gallery: Jurassic Period Sandstone monoliths, dubbed the Temple of the Sun and the Temple of the Moon, tower over the desert flats of Utah's Capitol Reef National Park.

228. Coral reef white margate fish are 10 to 20 inches long and swim along the ocean bottom.

229. Great Barrier Reef was formed in the Miocene period, 2500 years have elapsed since the historical.

230. Organic reefs in the study region form a patch reef group on the carbonate platform margin ramp and they are interruptedly distributed along the platform margin.

231. The Ziyun section, located in the south of Guizhou province, is composed of the carbonate reef depositional system, the carbonate muddy shelf depositional system, and the bathyal depositional system.

232. Watch this video of a wild porcupine fish to help you identify it in the reef.

233. The smooth, sandy shorelines of Australia's Whitsunday Islands and the natural wonder of the surrounding Great Barrier Reef draw tourists from around the world.

234. Here, a crimson - tinted species rests on a reef near the Solomon Islands.

235. On March 24, 1989, 10..8 million gallons of oil was spilled when the ship ' s master, Joseph Hazelwood, left the controls and the ship crashed into a Reef. The cleanup cost Exxon $2..5 billion.

236. It's only been latterly that we've discovered that it's lots of individual reefs, around about 2,900 separate reef systems which make < ...

237. WHEN marine ecologist Enric Sala first set eyes on Kingman Reef, a remote spot in the Pacific, his heart started to beat like a drum.

238. Another tour operator faces penalties for wrecking coral when it illegally anchor on a Maui reef.

239. The back arc basin in the southern slope of East Kunlun was widely scattered by short dimension reef islands or carbonate buildups and relatively deep basins among the reef islands.

240. In other words, much of the Great Barrier Reef is an actual living creature.

241. On the night of March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground on Bligh Reef in the pristine waters of Alaska's Prince William Sound.

242. The KAZ 11 was spotted adrift on the outer Great Barrier Reef on Wednesday.

243. The scuba diver submerged and swarm toward a coral reef.

244. Blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus), although widespread around the Pacific, appear to have small ranges within their home reef system.

245. You can also take a bareboat from Cairns to the outer Greater Barrier Reef.

246. We could visit Ayers Rock and the Great Barrier Reef.

247. Indo-Pacific: Gulf of Aden and East Africa to the Hawaiian and Gambier islands, north to the Ogasawara Islands, south to the Great Barrier Reef.

248. A freckle - face blenny peeks from its reef burrow in the Solomon Islands.

249. LST reef characterized by ag gradational bioherm or patch reef, is generally associated with mixed clastic turbidite, siliceous limestone and mudstone.

250. Parrotfish swim over a reef cluster off Raine Island , Australia.

251. Gill net, cast net, and shrimp pot have been used to survey the catch in the artificial reef area of Zhongshan city in high flow period and in dry season separately.

252. We are the internet's premiere directory and search engine for reef aquarium enthusiasts to buy sell or trade corals, coral frags, invertebrates and new or used hard goods.

253. United Nations report has warned that the Barrier Reef could be functionally early as 2030.

254. The Great Barrier Reef.

255. Huaguang Coral reef is one of the continental slope atolls in the South ChinaSea, which are distinguished from oceanic atolls and shelf atolls .

256. The ship and its crew were lost on the reef.

257. Ningaloo Marine Park, Western Australia - A banded toadfish hides among the coral on 185-mile-long (298 kilometers) Ningaloo Reef.

258. A splIt'shot shows a coral reef beneath a pearl workstation in French Polynesia 's Tuamotu Archipelago.

259. A group of fish swims by a pristine coral reef along East Timor's East coast.

260. Florida marine conservationists have come up with a simple recipe for fighting the invading lionfish that is gobbling up local reef life -- eat them.

261. Australia's Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest living creature.

262. The eastern reef island area, with shallow seawater, is higher parts of Xisha apophysis, where the basement is directly covered with reef facies carbonate rocks.

263. Must have afoul of the reef . - So , what's your plan, then?

264. Photo Gallery: Underwater Landscapes Parrotfish swim over a reef cluster off Raine Island, Australia.

265. Rising ocean temperatures, water pollution, ocean acidification and cyclones continually pummel the reef and have caused mass coral bleaching.

266. Okamoto and his team are involved in an un-precedented project to restore Japan's largest coral reef by planting thousands of baby corals growing on tiny ceramic beds.

267. But once they grow to adulthood,[] these largest of bivalve mollusks permanently affix themselves to surfaces such as sand or coral reef rubble.

268. Professor Marshall said: "Osprey Reef is one of the many reefs in the Coral Sea Conservation Zone, which has been identified as an area of high conservation importance.

269. An atoll is a circular reef surrounding a lagoon .