Coral Bleaching Thailand

[katdiver]

I'm out diving most days around Shark Point and Phi Phi, I can't tell you just how happy I am to see large areas of coral and anemones that are recovering! Yes, table corals and staghorns are gone, but they are the fastest to grow back. It was eery to see all those white anemones on Anemone Reef, but now most of them have their colour back!

 

[Molecule]

That's a good news. Thanks Katdiver for the updates. Cheers!

 

[lord khram]

Just a pity the coral cant recover from the effects of boat anchors and sea walkers etc as readilly as it seems to do from the bleaching.
Did my first dive in Pattaya yesterday for some months and some of the things I saw were nothing short of disgracefull.

 

[JTinSD]

Just a pity the coral cant recover from the effects of boat anchors and sea walkers etc as readilly as it seems to do from the bleaching.
Did my first dive in Pattaya yesterday for some months and some of the things I saw were nothing short of disgracefull.

What are "sea walkers?"

 

[Phuket diver]

Hi,

Corals are already growing again, lot's of juveniles fish around, the water temperature dropped to 28/29 degrees. We are all happy in Phuket

 

[limbo]

To get this thread back on track again, coral bleaching on Chaweng Beach has greatly improved and I would say that maybe only 10% is now affected in contrast to 40% a few months ago!

 

[limbo]

That would indeed be the right thing to do Bowmouth.

This thread was started to discuss, report and possibly analyze coral bleaching around Thailand, not about coral threading.

 

[Arizona]

Thanks Limbo. Excellent to hear things are getting back to 'normal' on Samui.

 

[ZenDiver.3D]

So, do the bleached corals return to color?
I read that is is actually a state of dormancy they gointo because the heat causes the algae that live in it to produce toxins. But if it stays too hot, the corals starve to death and die.
We have it pretty bad here in the Persian Gulf.

 

[limbo]

The corals here went back to their original color but there may be some permanent damage although this seems to be rather small right now.