How it works
Seaforms turns a single dive into a coral restoration project that lives on long after your holiday ends. Here’s the full process — from booking to the moment you watch your structure get colonised by its first fish.
The process
Three steps over a single dive trip — and decades of impact afterwards.
Step 01 · Before you go
Browse partner dive resorts on the impact map. Each one lists its programme dates, what the local reef needs, and what your build will contribute. Pick the one that fits your trip.
Submit a short interest form with your dates, party size, and certification level. The Seaforms team routes it to the resort and gets back to you with availability — usually within a couple of days.
Step 02 · On site, day 1–2
On arrival, the resort's marine biologist gives you a 45-minute brief — the existing restoration sites, why this reef needs help, and what you'll be building.
The next day you assemble a Popstar by hand on the dive deck. It's a 1.2m steel coral nursery, takes about two hours, and ends with you signing the structure.
That afternoon you and the dive team take it down to the reef and place it. Photos and video go on your account immediately. This is the dive you'll remember.
Step 03 · For years afterwards
Every quarter, the dive shop sends you new photos of your reef. Coral colonies expand. Fish move in. The structure stays in place for decades.
Your Popstar shows up on the public Seaforms map forever — and you can share its profile link with anyone, anytime.
Common questions
For the deployment dive, yes — minimum Open Water (PADI/SSI/equivalent). The build itself happens on land and is open to anyone, including snorkellers travelling with a diving partner.
Each structure is engineered to withstand the local maximum-recorded wave conditions. If it's ever damaged, the resort reports back to you and the team rebuilds the affected section at no cost.
Yes. You get quarterly photo and video updates from the dive shop, plus a public profile page with the full history of your structure. You can share the link with anyone.
You're not paying someone else to do it. You physically build the structure with the marine team, learn the science, and your name stays on the structure for its full lifespan.
Some loss is expected — that's reef ecology. The dive team replaces failed fragments at the next monitoring visit, so your structure stays populated.
Kids 10+ can join the build session as observers. PADI Junior Open Water (10–14) divers can do the deployment dive at adapted depth. Younger kids snorkel above.
Programmes run year-round across the partner network. Most divers book 2–3 months ahead of their trip.
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