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.
Before you go
Step 01 · Find a programme
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. Submit a short form; the resort gets back to you within a couple of days.
On site, day 1–2
Step 02 · Build & deploy
After a brief with the resort's marine biologist, you assemble your Popstar from the flat-pack kit on the dive deck — glass fibre rods clicked into 3D-printed nodes, about fifteen minutes start to finish, ending with your signature on the structure. That afternoon you and the dive team take it down and place it on the reef.
For years afterwards
Step 03 · Watch it grow
Every quarter the dive shop sends new photos of your reef. Coral colonies expand. Fish move in. Your Popstar shows up on the public Seaforms map forever — and you can share its profile link with anyone, anytime.
Before you go
Step 01 · Find a programme
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. Submit a short form; the resort gets back to you within a couple of days.
On site, day 1–2
Step 02 · Build & deploy
After a brief with the resort's marine biologist, you assemble your Popstar from the flat-pack kit on the dive deck — glass fibre rods clicked into 3D-printed nodes, about fifteen minutes start to finish, ending with your signature on the structure. That afternoon you and the dive team take it down and place it on the reef.
For years afterwards
Step 03 · Watch it grow
Every quarter the dive shop sends new photos of your reef. Coral colonies expand. Fish move in. Your Popstar shows up on the public Seaforms map forever — and you can share its profile link with anyone, anytime.
The Popstar
A reef-star kit of rust-free glass fibre rods and 3D-printed PETG connector nodes — shipped flat to any partner resort, assembled in fifteen minutes on the dive deck. Once anchored, coral colonises every surface of the structure. Within a few seasons a PopStar disappears into the reef it helped build: anchored at depth, overgrown, no longer something separate from the coral.
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.
Free-floating plastic in the ocean is dangerous because marine animals mistake it for food, get entangled in it, or it breaks down into microplastics in the water column. PopStars do none of that. The structure is anchored at a designated restoration site, the printed connectors are sealed PETG rather than microplastic-shedding film or fragment plastic, and within a few seasons coral colonies grow over the entire structure — including the connectors — making them substrate inside the reef rather than debris floating around it. The alternative most degraded reefs face today is no restoration at all.
Programmes run year-round across the partner network. Most divers book 2–3 months ahead of their trip.
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