He gave up a six-figure salary as a marketing consultant and dedicated his life to restoring the world's ocean reef ecosystems.

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Shark seems completely unfazed by his success, yawning and looking bored as his father holds a team meeting in a rented bungalow at the tony Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo after a recent regatta.

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Shark seems completely unfazed by his success, yawning and looking bored as his father holds a team meeting in a rented bungalow at the tony Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo, Florida, after a recent regatta.

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Two southern stingrays were born in a tropical ocean display at the Blue Reef Aquarium in Newquay.

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The surf of Western Australia's Margaret River is often described as "epic" while the other 12, 500km of the Indian Ocean coast has surreally un-peopled reef, point and beach breaks giving way to shimmering 10m tides up north.

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The turquoise ocean hides a stunning underwater garden, and snorkelling the fringing reef around the islands is on a par with snorkelling the outer reef.

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Also within the atoll-like reef system are picturesque islands that are mid-ocean pit stops for a variety of migrating seabirds, giving twitchers almost as much reason as divers to be excited about Apo Reef.

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Two severe coral bleaching events in 1998 and 2002 due to ocean warming also had "major detrimental impacts" on the central and northern parts of the reef, the study found, putting the impact at 10%.

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