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| Healthy Coral Reef |
As a diver the idea of creating more corals than you impact is something that I would like to strive to achieve.as a goal. In Cambodia we tried to do some reef projects but the locals and the goverment were not very supportive mostly becuase of ignorance.
One of the the things that I noticed was that the coral was being smothered by the sand that was getting kicked up. This site is very close to a area of high diver concentrations and there are a lot of new divers kicking up a lot of sand at the Liberty Wreck in Tulamben.
If you cleaned that sand off how much coral could you save from being negatively impacted? I wonder if you brought a little nozzle for a LP hose and blew it off gently, could you have a real impact on the health of the reef in the long term?
I also noticed that the coral was breaking off, I suspect from divers but maybe a natural occurrence as well when the big waves comes it moves a lot of water. Anyway in Thailand they have a project where they are taking corals and transplanting them into concrete and then placing in the sand. As I understand it that project is working to start new coral colonies.
I wonder if you took that and anchored it in a big rock that would be above sand level and if you planted it in deeper water say 10 meters how likely would it be to survive and thrive? and I wonder if you placed other rocks in the area that were ready for the corals to colonize could you get a chain reaction going?
The table and apcora corals all seem to have really healthy little nursuries going and the amount of coral there is less that a meter accross. Something to think about!
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