In April, the Oceans Without Borders Benguerra Island team came to the rescue of the local house reef. In mid-March, tropical cyclone Filipo made landfall in Mozambique, bringing torrential rainfall, sustained winds of up to 116 km/h and heavy storm-surge. As a result, substantial amounts of debris, including tree trunks, branches and roots, were washed onto the Benguerra Island House Reef, smothering and damaging the coral. Their team spent a week diving and clearing these multiple deposits from the reef, before moving all this flotsam out of the water to a beach collection point for removal.