I know someone who is directly involved with the re-attachment of corals. PM me if you want their email.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomhauburn
Dave
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I know someone who is directly involved with the re-attachment of corals. PM me if you want their email.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomhauburn
Dave
"Cindy, I'm not sure how useful the original video would be for the project, as the stalagmites tend to lie right next to their stumps, but I'd love to view it. I don't have any video of the system, but if I could view the original I could organise a videoing of similar areas as a comparrison."
Send you address to me at cindyb3007@yahoo.com and as a reward for your hard work I'll send you a copy of the video. :D
the epoxy thing works well. we use it to re-assemble coral reefs in guam. we had a fishing vessel ground in Apra Harbor last year toppling over some enormous coral heads. the university of guam, dept. of nat resources, and guam tropical dive station worked as a team to re-construct the reef after the ship had been removed. i participated as a safety diver/bag opperator (the heads were in excess of 6 ft diameter) and gently lifted and rotated the heads while the students applied a basic plumbers epoxy. the heads are doing well these days. on a side note- i've spent most of my diving life avoiding contact with coral, it was wierd handling it. in some of the areas of smaller corals, we re-assembled them as well, but couldn't reunite all the pieces so we consructed our own reefs out of the unmatched remains. if you take the "gay" conotation out of it, it was kinda like flower arangement. yes, i designed my own reef and it is still flurishing to this day. the UOG and DNR have been using epoxy for years on other reefs to offset some of the diving damage as well as other types of damage.