Coral Bleaching

I think that coral bleaching would be more popular near the equator in the warm waters. I think this because corals become bleached when the zooanthellae can't protect the corals anymore from the UV rays. Also i think coral bleaching would be more common in the shallower waters since they would be near the surface which gets the most sunlight again causing the corals to die. A way humans could help with coral bleaching is not polluting the waters such as dumping oil in the water. Another thing would be to help stop global warming because this plays a big part in helping the corals survive. Without the corals, many organisms such as the zooanthellae would die out because they wouldn't have the corals to live off of.