Coral Academy · Flagship course
Spend four weeks
growing a reef.
Four weeks living as an ocean gardener. Become a certified coral diver. Four weeks on the Tevana House Reef learning coral ID, reef restoration, shark ecology and freediving — and plant a reef that outlives you.
Full course $2,750 · certifications & lodging included
Life as an ocean gardener
For four weeks, the reef is your workplace and your home.
Mornings begin below the surface. You'll descend onto the Tevana House Reef, coral fragments in hand, and spend your days doing the slow, deliberate work of regeneration — building nurseries, out-planting, monitoring, learning to read a reef the way a gardener reads a season.
By week two you're freediving the nursery on a single breath. By week four you've certified as an Advanced Coral Diver, studied the sharks that keep the system in balance, and planted coral that will still be growing long after you've flown home.
This is not a holiday with a volunteer afternoon bolted on. It's a genuine apprenticeship in reef restoration — small cohort, real certifications, and a house reef you'll come to know intimately.
Reserve your place
Only 4 of 8 spots left
Balance of $1,375 due before the course begins.
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The curriculum
Five certifications, one continuous descent
Each week builds on the last — from reading a reef to restoring it. Every module is taught in-water by working ocean gardeners.
Coral Diver ID
Learn to read a reef — identify 18 coral genera and the fish and invertebrates that live among them. The literacy every ocean gardener starts with.
Freediving Certification
Drop the tank. Certify as a freediver so you can move through the nursery on a single breath, quiet and unhurried.
Advanced Coral Diver
Buoyancy, navigation and deep work refined until hovering millimetres above living coral becomes second nature.
Reef Restoration
The heart of it — build nursery structures, fragment and out-plant coral, monitor growth and log the data that proves it's working.
Shark Ecology
Understand the predators that keep a reef in balance, and why a healthy reef needs its sharks as much as its coral.
Everything you need
What's included
Before you arrive
Requirements
Advanced Open Water + 30 logged dives
You'll want to be comfortable in the water and current on your dives. Everything beyond that — freediving, advanced coral technique, restoration and shark ecology — you'll learn here.
2026 cohort
6 – 31 July 2026
Tevana House Reef · Bira, South Sulawesi
Your reef outlives you
The coral you plant keeps growing long after you leave.
This course isn't a simulation. Every fragment you out-plant joins a living nursery — part of the reef our ocean gardeners have been rebuilding since 2020.
Good to know
Questions, answered
4 weeks · 6 – 31 July 2026 · 4 spots left
Plant a reef that outlives you.
Reserve your place with a $1375 deposit. Certifications, lodging and your ten adopted corals are all included.