Burnaby Now: Crumbling ocean: Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip on a diving expedition. He was lead researcher in a study that involved two other SFU biologists and two international researchers. It was already known that coral reefs in the Caribbean are dying, but this study discovered the dead reefs are collapsing much more quickly than expected. Beneath the blue Caribbean skies lie vast stretches of bones crumbling on the ocean floor. That is what’s metaphorically happening to the Caribbean coral reefs. …