1.   Against a background of living coral, sea anemones and sponges, hundreds of local fish drift by in a nonstop kaleidoscopic display of fantastic form and vivid color.

2.   Four years ago, he began transplanting fragments of living coral from dying beds in the bay.

3.   This living coral forms a thin veneer on the surface of pock-marked skeletal limestone laid down over the ages.

4.   If their numbers grow too large, the starfish devastate large areas of living coral.

5.   Sedimentation also smothers living coral, and silt hinders the settling of coral larvae.