Dive Operator Spends Lockdown Repairing Coral

Queensland, Australia dive operator Passions of Paradise has opted to make use of the lockdown productively by constructing its scientific partnerships and planting coral at two of its dive websites.

The work is at the side of the College of Abilities Sydney’s Coral Nurture program.

Passions of Paradise donated a vessel to the program, with the just of planting over 2,000 corals at two areas on Hastings Reef, per Alan Wallish, the founder and managing director of Passions of Paradise:

“Hastings Reef affords an supreme alternative to take this program and in actuality put apart an intensive effort in supplementing the natural ability of the reef to heal itself. Hastings has faced many challenges within the closing decade, from Cyclone Yasi in 2011, the Crown-of-Thorns Starfish outbreak of 2012-2013, and the mass bleaching events of 2016, 2017 and now 2020.”

Since the open of lockdown, Passions of Paradise has performed four coral planting journeys, and grasp managed to plant round 1,500 pieces of coral in total. They just to continue their work except they hit and surpass their goal of 2,000.