Disaster Control Research Center, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Aoba 6–6–11–1104, Aramaki, Aoba–Ku, Sendai 980–8579, Japan ...

The pair say they were struck by the degree of bleaching in gigantic boulder-like bommies, or reef outcrops, comprised of a stony coral called porites. "We went inside, swam [through the] nooks ...