Floaty Boat, Revolutionizing Coral Larval Restoration | Changing Planet: Coral Special

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Introducing Floaty Boat, a remotely operated vehicle designed to streamline coral larval restoration efforts. Once coral spawn matures into larvae, they're delicately poured into a 100-liter bladder. Floaty Boat employs a larval-friendly pump to transfer them without harm. Equipped with a real-time substrate assessment camera, Floaty Boat revolutionizes coral restoration with precision and care.
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In the third year of this 7-year project examining the issues facing the planet’s most threatened ecosystems, Dr. M. Sanjayan visits the Maldives to take an in-depth look at coral reefs and the urgent efforts to help them survive climate change. Stream Changing Planet: Coral Special now on KZbin, pbs.org and the PBS App: to.pbs.org/3wgjPfd

[@windlessoriginals1150]

Thank you

[@oldmare444]

What is the point of putting the larva on a reef that will be too hot.

[@ilovemyhomefries]

😂

[@nightbringerO18]

Not a specialist but my guess is that remaining reefs have a better chance to spawn heat resistant offsprings. Augmenting the number of successful coral settlements may also give a better probability that heat resistant corals get to grow altogether

[@BobQuigley]

There's hundreds of millions of acres of failing reefs. It would be easier to empty the ocean with a spoon than repairing coral this way. We must slow stop reverse greenhouse gases pollution ASAP if theirs any hope of addressing the exponentially growing ecological man made catastrophes we face. Hopium videos are not helpful