Name: Healing the Ocean With a Garden of Coral
Uploaded: 2019-04-21T06:09:06.000Z
Duration: 2 min 28 s
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- Coral's kind of like the trees of a forest.

They're just the backbone of the whole tropical ecosystem.

And if they disappear, we're in a lot of trouble.

I was, I'd grown up diving, spent a lot of time in the water.

I've basically watched the coral reefs dying.

As the reefs died, the fish didn't come back,

and I realized, I'm tired of watching it die,

And so I developed this whole idea of growing corals

in an offshore nursery and replanting them on the reef.

- [Man] And so you're kind of like a farmer?

And we have five offshore nurseries in the Keys.

We start with little fragments that we collect.

And after six to nine months, maybe a year,

that might have 100 centimeters of growth on it.

We cut that off, and then we plant it out on the reef.

and we're gonna take 'em out to Pickles Reef

We've got a couple thousand of 'em out there

that we've already planted and we're gonna add some more.

It is a bit of gardening when you put the corals

“Ah, I think they would look nice over there,

and that would look nice over there;” and,

some of it's based on what used to be there

and what should be there, and that's how we do our planting.

Those corals will probably spawn next year.

Part of the long-range goal is to get the corals

I'm excited every time I get in the water,

A lot of people said, “Oh you can never do that,

it'll never work, can't do it on a big enough scale;”

and I think I've proven that it can be done.

And if we can train enough people and teach enough people

in other places, I think we can really see

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