Madalen Howard of Coral Restoration Foundation™ explains the entire process of massive scale coral reef restoration. She breaks down how CRF™ utilizes corals’ ability to asexually reproduce to raise thousands of reef-ready corals in offshore Coral Tree™ nurseries, and how volunteers, staff, and interns have made this work possible. Because of divers like you CRF™ has returned over 215,000 endangered corals to the wild, restoring over 34,000 sq m of reef habitat!

Finally, Madalen directly answers the big question in the room: Does coral reef restoration really work and will it actually help?

Video credits:

The vast majority of this (truly amazing) footage was kindly provided by Alexander Neufeld of Coral Restoration Foundation. VERY BIG thank you!

Alexander Neufeld (All coral nursery footage, including in-action nursery boat & working shots, water entries and exits)

Sweetwater Scuba b-roll includes the following clips:

In-person podcast interview, aerial drone of land/Key Largo area, Katie Reich dancing underwater (buoyancy control), toting flag over reefs in West Palm area, underwater basketball shot, grabbing buoy, Spiegel Grove, pool training, Blue Heron Bridge reefs (Robin Powdrill waiving) and Keys land shots (dog driving, shop with giant lobster)

Mermaid footage of “The Alchemist” of Seattle Mermaid School by Kenny Dyal

Contacts:

https://www.coralrestoration.org

Headquarters

89111 Overseas Hwy, Tavernier, Florida 33070

Exploration Center

5 Seagate Blvd, Key Largo, Florida 33037

(Next to the Pilot House Restaurant & Marina)

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