Dr Thomas J. Goreau, a pioneer in marine science, is sounding a clarion call for greater transparency regarding the alarming extent of coral reef damage across the Caribbean amid the extinction threat it faces. Goreau, a veteran of 70 years.
Today, ravaged by climate change, pollution and overfishing, they are ghosts of what they once were
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Slides from Tom Goreau s family s science photo archive (Tom Goreau) comments
While making the documentary
Ground War, I met marine biologist Tom Goreau. We dove the reefs of Great Guana Cay in The Bahamas to study the impact of a newly built golf course on the coral ecosystem. At the time, Goreau told me about his family s unique photo archive, stored in the attic of his century-old house, between MIT and Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.
His grandfather, Fritz Goro, was a Life magazine photojournalist who travelled to Bikini atoll during the atomic bomb tests in the 1940s and 1950s, taking photos of the effects of nuclear radiation on marine life. It was there he discovered the beauty of coral reefs and built an underwater camera to document the incredible ecosystem, taking some of the world s first pictures of them.