Day 76 - 20th April 2010

Marine Resource Management - Day 3

This morning we completed all the theory covering:

The Effects of Marine Tourism
What Science says about divers
Marine Protected Area's
Sustainable Dive Practices

We had lunch and then our next task was to construct a coral nursery.  It just had to be simple so we all popped up to the wholesalers with Nathan and bought pvc piping with connectors, netting and conctrete pillars.  We cut the piping into 2 x150cm and 2 x 100cm lengths and joined them together with the connectors forming a large rectangle.  Then covered that with netting, holding it in place with string.    I must say our first attempt wasn't bad at all, we could have overlapped the netting to make it slightly stronger, but we'll see how it holds up when it's in the water and has coral on it.
So, with the nursery nearly complete, we just needed the concrete pilars, which will act as table legs.  Unfortunately they're being deliverered tomorrow, so work came to a stop.

For a change we finished pretty early so headed home for a shower after a sweaty day in the Crystal workshop.