Reef monitoring
Standardised transect surveys feeding an open regional reef-health dataset.
Research, education, action
We dive so the reef has a record.
An independent research station where everyday dives become open reef-health data. Survey dives, reef ID courses, and volunteer seasons, running since 2012.
Reef vitals, this season
- 1,240 ha
- Reef surveyed
- 38,000
- Coral fragments out-planted
- 6,100
- Survey dives logged
- 540
- Volunteer scientists
What we run
Coral restoration
Nursery-to-reef out-planting with survival tracked tag-by-tag, season on season.
Citizen science
Certified divers trained to collect research-grade data on a normal dive.
Independent, evidence-led, in the water
We're not a resort with a coral table. Our surveys follow published protocols, our data is open to the regional reef authority, and every fee funds boat time and lab supplies, itemised annually, in public.
Reef Check partner · open data · registered non-profit
Volunteer or partner with the station
Tell us your certification level and when you're around. Survey intakes run monthly, and we brief before every one.
Station
- Lab open 08:00-17:00, Tue-Sat
- Survey intakes first Monday, monthly
- AOW + 30 logged dives to join surveys
- Marine Station, East Cape Field Base