Eight-day Undersea Mission Begins Experiment To Improve Coral Reef Restoration
Friday, June 13, 2008 - 17:28
in Earth & Climate
Scientists have begun an eight-day mission, in which they are living and working at 60 feet below the sea surface in an underwater "space station," to determine why some species of coral colonies survive transplanting after a disturbance while other colonies die. The team of "aquanauts" is to improve the restoration of damaged reefs.