In November 1794, ten vessels, which were part of a convoy escorted by HMS Convert, were wrecked on the reef in Gun Bay, on the East end of Grand Cayman, but with the help of local settlers, there was no loss of life.

Wood from the huts was used for firewood, and fish caught off the fringing reef combined with some potatoes and onions they had saved from their sinking vessel to augment the island's meager ( as it turned out ) supply of coconuts.

The captain was confirmed to be asleep when the ship crashed in Prince William Sound's reef.

It was reported on 2 November 2005 that a territorial dispute was looming between Fiji and Tonga over a reef lying to the south of both countries.

While there, Golden Hind became caught on a reef and was almost lost.

Greenpeace was fined US $ 7, 000 for damaging the reef and agreed to pay the fine saying they felt responsible for the damage, although Greenpeace stated that the Philippines government had given it outdated charts.

Along with six other islands, the reef was administered as part of the Pacific Remote Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex.

It was the easy access to fresh water on the island and the rich food source represented by the ocean life sheltered by the reef that made it feasible for the Amerindians to settle this area around 600 BC.

With the loss of the natural vegetation, the balance in runoff nutrients to the reef was disturbed, eventually causing as much as 80 percent of the large eastern fringing reef to become inactive.

In December 2000, most of Palmyra Atoll was bought by The Nature Conservancy for coral reef conservation and research.

She was lost on 25 June 1851, on a reef off Amber Island ( Mapon ).

Saint Croix was formed by a coral reef and is flatter.

Deriving from a false etymology of Lyonesse, the ' City of Lions ' was said in some later traditions to be the capital of the legendary kingdom, situated on what is today the Seven Stones reef, some eighteen miles west of Land's End and eight miles north-east of the Isles of Scilly.

The remainder built two new ships: the Deliverance, largely from the material stripped from the Sea Venture ( which sat high-and-dry on the reef, and was still being cannibalised in 1612 – its guns were used to arm a fort ) and the Patience.

On 8 March 1853, nearing the Western Australian coast, the Alibi was almost wrecked on a reef.

The shipwreck was later turned into a reef and Marine park.

One case study with coral reef restoration was conducted on the island of Oahu in Hawaii.

Another boat, the Bluejacket, was used in the opening credits shown during the second and third seasons and eventually turned up for sale on Vancouver Island in August 2006, after running aground on a reef in the Hecate Strait on the way south from Alaska.

* River mouth at Fremantle-the harbour was built in the 1890s and the limestone reef blocking the river was removed at the same time, after 70 years of demands.

This formation is an outcropping of Devonian limestone created from a larger reef when most of Oregon was covered by water.

Their income was supplemented by alluvial and reef tin mining to the east of the homestead, the products of which had to be carted by buckboard along a self-made track over the Finiss River.

South-west of the Painted Cliffs and just outside the marine section of the park, a disused coastal trader was sunk in 2007 to form a dive reef.

The group proceeded to Little Andaman Island, where they spent ten days surfing several spots for the first time, including Jarawa Point near Hut Bay and the long right reef point at the southwest tip of the island, named Kumari Point.

* 2004 –, a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.

The lush primeval forest which once covered the eastern coastal plain, where the Amerindians built their first settlements during the Aceramic period, is gone forever, and so is a large portion of the ecosystem surrounding the coral reef just offshore.

Most geologists and paleontologists would probably set the Proterozoic-Phanerozoic boundary either at the classic point where the first trilobites and reef building animals ( archaeocyatha ) such as corals and others appear ; at the first appearance of a complex feeding burrow called Treptichnus pedum ; or at the first appearance of a group of small, generally disarticulated, armored forms termed ' the small shelly fauna '.

An old saying goes, " The first time you think of reducing sail you should ," and correspondingly, " When you think you are ready to take out a reef, have a cup of tea first.

They differ from freshwater crayfish in lacking the joint between the last two segments of the thorax, and they differ from the reef lobsters of the family Enoplometopidae in having full claws on the first three pairs of legs, rather than just one.

* The reef drop-off is, for its first 50 m, habitat for many reef fish who find shelter on the cliff face and plankton in the water nearby.

The town gave its name to the mid-Ordovician Chazy Formation, the first true reef system, which was originally identified from limestone outcroppings in the township.

Elliott Key, the park's largest island, is considered the first of the true Florida Keys being formed from fossilized coral reef, i. e. Key Largo limestone.

At 11am the following morning, after 34 hours on the reef, Captain Jones had just given the order to abandon ship and the first 4 passengers had taken their seats in one of the lifeboats when Carnatic suddenly broke in half.

* Bigej Pass is the first pass on the East reef North of Kwajalein & Ebeye.

* Little Bustard (, ) and Big Bustard (, ) are the first and second islets respectively north of Kwajalein island on the East reef, and are the only islets between Kwajalein and Ebeye.

Archeocyathid s, the first reef building organisms, from the Poleta formation in the Death Valley area

Grey reef sharks were the first shark species known to perform a threat display, a stereotypical behavior warning that it is prepared to attack.

Dutch ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker first described the grey reef shark in 1856 as Carcharias ( Prionodon ) amblyrhynchos, in the scientific journal Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indië.

It was originally distinguished from the grey reef shark by a white tip on the first dorsal fin, a shorter snout, and one fewer upper tooth row on each side.

Identifying features of the grey reef shark include dark edges on all fins except for the first dorsal fin.

Grey reef sharks are often curious about divers when they first enter the water and may approach quite closely, though they lose interest on repeat dives.

The first gold mining was recorded at Tia in 1866 and in 1873 a reef was discovered at McLeod ’ s Creek, near Walcha.