Images of the Amazon Reef taken from a submarine launched from the MY Esperanza. In this video the marine biologist and professor at Federal University of Paraíba, Ronaldo Francini Filho, comments over the first 5 minutes of dive.
The Greenpeace ship is currently in the region of the Amazon river mouth, Amapá State, for the “Defend the Amazon Reef” campaign.
A team of experts are onboard, including the scientist from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Fabiano Thompson and Kenneth Jozeph Lowick, from Greenpeace Belgium. Thompson led the group of scientists who discovered the coral reef at the mouth of the Amazon River.