Anacapa Island is more protected from storms and thus tends to offer clearer, warmer water than the other islands in the northern Channel Islands, making it an ideal, and reliable, charter destination especially for visitors, less experienced divers and snorkelers.Coral Reef is Anacapa most popular deep dive and is know for the striking colors and beautiful micrography opportunities it provides to advanced scuba divers. Most of the marine life here benefits from strong currents that serve as the lunch truck, delivering nutrients. The anemones, aggregating and orange cup corals, and gorgonians feed this way. Although there are beautiful coral communities where there are no hard corals present. Not only here but in the entire state of california. These corals are called ‘exceptions’ of corals meaning although they are not considered to be hard coral they are most definitely similar to corals, because of their major similarities they can be classified as corals.

This article relates to environmental science because it also mentioned how there are hardly any species like scallop and lobsters that live in this type of ecosystem. When tourists can notice that there are some marine species that are absent in an ecosystem where coral reefs exist I think we can come to the conclusion that it is becoming a huge issue. Although the Anacapa Islands does have a decent amount of coral reefs there are many marine species that are not present due to the fact that the population of coral reefs has decreased significantly in the past years, months, and days. Coral reefs might seem like an insignificant issue to solve but it is a ‘small’ issue that is the cause of many other ‘major’ issues in the islands and around the world. Other organism heavily depends on coral reefs in order to survievand have a stable, balanced life where multiple organisms can coexist and commute to have what once was a healthy ecosystem. I think we need to bring awareness to all parts of the state and world about this coral reef issues even those locations that are not supposed to be heavily populated with coral reefs. By bringing awareness we can come up with multiple solutions, research and programs to help the population of coral reefs increase and marine organisms to remain in their original habitats. https://cadivingnews.com/dive-spot/admiring-anacapa-islands-coral-pinnacle/