After waiting through a few weeks of exceptionally rough wave action, our team finally had a clear window to conduct a maintenance dive at the Swahili Nurseries and inspect our outplanted reef structures. However, as soon as our Divemaster Omar, and our project leader arrived on location, it was immediately clear that the ocean’s force had taken its toll. Four of our six surface marker buoys were missing, signaling that the turbulent swells at the very end of the low season h

Today we headed down for a monitoring and maintenance dive, checking on our coral nurseries and the outplanted coral colonies on the metal cages. This year the structures weathered the intense conditions of the rough season surprisingly well. The main task for the day involved to unentangle all coral fragments that had become twisted around the nursery branches due to heavy surges. We were relieved to find that only about a dozen coral fragments were missing across the entir

After months of preparation and care, we have finally begun outplanting full-grown coral colonies from our coral nurseries onto the 75 coated metal cages that were deployed at the end of 2025. This marks an important step in our reef restoration work. The several species of Pocillopora we are currently outplanting have been grown and monitored in our nurseries. Now, strong enough, they are moved to the artificial reef structures, where they can establish themselves as perm

One of the biggest hurdles for coral larvae worldwide is the lack of natural substrate to settle on. On degraded coral reefs, most of the...