ISHIGAKI, Okinawa Prefecture--When underwater photographer ... but had never seen the coral reef stretching so far. “I could feel the vitality of the coral,” said Horiguchi, 34, who dived ...

Their findings have been published in the journal Coral Reefs. Four monitoring sites in Shigeo Reef near Motobu Peninsula in ...

Waves crash and swirl around the reef, while rip currents pull outward ... It is quite common in Okinawa Prefecture, he said, for the water to be calm on one side of a cape but there to be a ...