Re:Another Blow for the Future of Corals
by diveanon on Saturday September 07, 2019 @12:14PM
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I believe it could be industrialized quite easily. We are currently experimenting with using crushed glass bottles as a substrate and then transplanting the corals once they have established.
This allows us to kill two birds with one stone by recycling waste products and growing coral.
It is difficult to grow coral outside of the ocean, so the transplantation is very laborious. However this is where volunteer divers can be a huge assistance. The work is safe and easy, just time consuming.
Re:Another Blow for the Future of Corals
by mistermann on Saturday September 07, 2019 @02:30PM
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> It is difficult to grow coral outside of the ocean, so the transplantation is very laborious.
With proper specialized equipment (say, a budget of $10 million), what kind of an improvement change could be achieved in your opinion?
Do you have much familiarity with this? I assume it's where they build some sort of a frame and then attach small pieces of living coral to it to start a new reef?
A comment below says: "The threat to them, as I understand it, is that global warming will happen so quickly that they will be unable to adapt by migrating in latitude or evolving defenses."
I was watching a documentary the other day where environmentalists on some remote island were doing this and it seemed to be working, but they were doing all the construction themselves and clearly didn't know what they were doing. Is this something that could be mass-industrialized (the structures) with crowd sourced labor to do the laborious coral attachment part?