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When you are on beach underwater diving or snorkeling could be quench your thirst for adventure, but make sure you are a good swimmer. Beautiful coral reef, fishes in different size, shapes and color and many water animals could be seen during an underwater visit.
Corals are marine organism and coral reefs under water structure made from calcium carbonate secreted by corals. The most corals reefs are built from stony coral and form by polypus that live together in groups. The polypus secretes a hard exoskeleton which provides support and protection for the body of each polyp. Reefs grow best in warm, shallow, clear, sunny and agitated water.
Coral reefs are often called rain forest of the sea. They occupy less than one tenth of one percent of the world ocean surface. They provide home for many marine species including fish, mollusks, echinoderms and sponges.
Local economies near major coral reefs benefit from abundance of fish and other marine creatures as a food source. Reefs also provide recreational scuba diving and snorkeling tourism. Unfortunately these activities can have deleterious effect, such as accidental destruction of coral. Coral reefs are used in medicines, jewelry, and construction as well as in climate research.
Most countries are now slowly killing their reefs in order to gain short term financial profit from them in the form of tourism revenues, fish, sand, and jobs, but are doing so at the long term cost of slowly wiping out the free services and converting reefs from financial resources into economic losses.
There are three basic types of coral reefs. Fringing reefs are directly attached to the shoreline of a landmass. Fringing reefs are the most common type of reef found, because they are considered relatively young. Barrier reefs are separated from land by a deep lagoon, and grow parallel to the shoreline. Atoll reefs form around an island that is completely submerged under sea-level. Atoll coral reefs continue to grow upward from the submerged island. According to the experts, depending on their size, barrier reefs and atolls can take from 100,000 to 30 million years to fully form.
While coral reefs are sensitive to environmental changes, they appear to be able to recover effectively from physical disturbance or temporary pollution events provided that water quality is generally high.
There are many places located around beautiful beaches for beatific pleasure, Fort Myers is the county and the commercial center of lee county, Florida, United States is home to beautiful landscapes and beaches. Discover new world of corals in Fort Myers's marine.
