Australia's Great Barrier Reef has almost fully recovered from the worst coral bleaching ever known in recent history, authorities said on Monday.
A three-minute video clip recorded on 2 September by Quicksilver Group, a private tour operator specialising in Great Barrier Reef tours in Queensland showed several international and local tourists attesting to that fact. Quicksilver Group's environment and compliance manager and marine biologist Doug Baird said coral on Agincourt Reef number three off Port Douglas at the Great Barrier Reef was "well in the process recovery" from a bleaching event six months ago. "It was a very robust reef going into the bleaching event. It was healthy, the water quality was good out here," Baird said.
And its beautiful too. See for yourself the amazing underwater world of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
