While our primary focus of the mission was to audit biodiversity across the marine “Tree of Life” in these rarely surveyed mesophotic ecosystems, we were not expecting to see such extensive coral bleaching due to elevated water temperatures well below 50 metres depth!!! 😟
ALT Photo Credit: Fabian Gosser
ALT Photo Credit: Tane Sinclair-Taylor
ALT Photo Credit: Tane Sinclair-Taylor