It never ceases to amaze me how fast we can grow those corals and... by Ken Nedimyer

It never ceases to amaze me how fast we can grow those corals and how well they are doing.

Ken Nedimyer

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We started with three corals and built that up to 5,000 corals, we have at any given time 40,000 corals in our nurseries in Florida. Last year we put 20,000 corals on the reef.

We started with one species and now we are working with seven or eight, we started with just three genetic strains of staghorn coral, now we have about 150 genetic strains. ... It's just getting a lot bigger.

So now we are growing corals that are resistant to the heat, we took advantage of really bad conditions to find something that is going to survive.

The goal is to set up a program, train these people, and let them own it, that's already happening in two of the countries we've been in for a while. I don't want to be the only one doing it. That would be a failure if it were just me.

I'm just wondering if I have enough lifetime left, can I train enough people? ... Can we plant enough of those to be able to bring the corals back to life?