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Reef Damage
On 04/13/03, Vone Research continued it's monitoring of the
coral restoration project. We first dove site #27. This site was first visited
on 12/16/02 by divers hired by Hillsboro Inlet district or CSI. It was
determined that the site had 'cable injury and would be mapped and would have
restoration activities'. On 3/01/03 and then again on 03/23/03 , we reported
that little work had been done here . The only thing that has changed is the
amount of soft corals that still can be saved. There are hard corals still
upside down and dying. Nothing has been stablized . We have offered our help
and it has been refused. We tried to pull our own permits to do repair work in
the enforcement area. These too were refused. We will continue to document
everything we find in the hopes that someone will care. Next we searched for
the area reported by Captain Schmidt to no avail. Frank is now back in town
and was able to find the area.
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