Coral Garden

A small “coral garden” comprising roughly seven different coral species sits on the ocean floor at Playa Melones, Puerto Rico, assembled by OCEANOS instructor Sammuel Suleiman to protect an endangered species of coral (not pictured). On the far left of the coral garden is a yellow symmetrical brain coral (Pseudodiploria strigosa) with a stark white spot in the center: a clear sign of white plague disease.