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. Ken Nedimyer More Quotes by Ken Nedimyer More Quotes From Ken Nedimyer 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. Ken Nedimyer us-news 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. Ken Nedimyer us-news 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. Ken Nedimyer us-news 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? Ken Nedimyer us-news It never ceases to amaze me how fast we can grow those corals and how well they are doing. Ken Nedimyer us-news
