Divers touched or hit the reef, on average, about once every four minutes. More than 40% of those contacts caused visible ...

Sharks, turtles, and manta rays increased the odds of both accidental and intentional reef contact.

Research at the University of Sydney has found that scuba-diving tourism—widely promoted as a sustainable way to experience coral reefs—is causing frequent and often hidden damage to fragile marine ...

Over the past decades, recreational diving has emerged as a powerful driver of both economic opportunity and ecological disturbance in coral reef regions worldwide. Divers’ fin kicks, buoyancy errors ...

A new scientific study warns that scuba diving tourism is contributing to coral reef destruction worldwide. Researchers found divers frequently damage fragile ecosystems through physical contact, ...

Scuba divers may be beating up coral reefs more than they think. Video analyses of divers show that more than 80 percent of damaging physical contact with the reef is unintended or simply unnoticed, ...

Scuba-diving tourists are destroying coral reefs they want to conserve, warns a new study. The study reveals how well-intentioned divers are actually contributing to reef damage at tourism hotspots.