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Underwater drones discover coral reefs off Benin, long presumed dead, teeming with life
A coral reef, missing and presumed dead, has been found alive and well off the coast of Benin.
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A coral reef, missing and presumed dead, has been found alive and well off the coast of Benin. Surveys in the 1960s, focused on identifying promising fishing areas, flagged a possible deep-water coral reef but assumed it must be dead. Now, using a modern sonar survey and the Deep Sea Camera System provided by the National Geographic Exploration Technology L…
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