How to Restore a Damaged Coral Reef
Channel: usoceangov
Date: 01/10/2015

On February 5, 2010, the cargo ship M/V VogeTrader ran aground off the Hawaiian island of Oahu and was later removed from a coral reef in the brilliant blue waters of Kalaeloa/Barber's Point Harbor.

NOAA and the State of Hawaii worked quickly to implement emergency restoration for the damaged corals, clearing rubble from the seafloor and reattaching more than 600 coral colonies. They began work in October 2013 and wrapped up in April 2014. A year after restoration, 89 percent of the reattached corals had survived, while fish and other marine life were making themselves at home in the new reef habitat. 

Learn more at http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/about/media/how-restore-damaged-coral-reef-undersea-vacuums-power-washers-and-winter-storms.html

Original video source: http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/vogetrader-coral-restoration-video_final.mp4