Sint-Maarten
Coralita
Reef

Description
A staff favorite! Enjoy the sand bottom gullies and the corals that pepper them. The Nature Foundation used this site as part of their Coral Restoration project in 2020 where they successfully out planted several Acropora coral fragments, some of which were Hurricane Irma survivors. After Hurricane Irma, especially the coral species ‘Staghorn’ almost totally disappeared from St. Maarten reefs due to the massive storm surge and the indirect impacts of the hurricane. “Only two fragments were left…
Animals
The following animals can be found here:
Angelfish
Baracuda
Boxfish Pufferfish
Butterflyfish
Cowfish
Eagle Ray
Flatfish
Goatfish
Grouper
Mackerel
Moray Eel
Nurse Shark
Parrotfish
Pipefish
Sea Turtle
Sharks
Snaper
Surgeonfish
Tigerfish
Trumpetfish
Trumpetfish Pipefish
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