"I've seen pictures of coral mid-bleaching before, but it's not the same thing as seeing it up close like that. You're swimming, swimming, swimming and it's the same thing reef after reef." ...

For nearby accommodations, check out The Reefs Resort & Club. (Getty Images)| The Bahamas' 3-mile-long Pink Sand Beach gets its color from crushed pink and red shells of microscopic coral insects.

Dr. Tom Goreau has come from a long line of scientific photographers and marine life specialists, his grandfather taking the first-ever underwater photos ... world’s coral reefs at a time ...

He captured the Great Barrier Reef during its latest—and most devastating—mass die-off, and documented how coral off the coast ... ve never seen something so beautiful, but it’s dying.” ...

Australian Marine Conservation Society WA Director Paul Gamblin described the images as "heartbreaking ... world-renowned Ningaloo Reef ecosystem. "To see beautiful coral reefs bleaching white ...