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Famously, it's the male that gets pregnant. it's a protected species, and studland bay is a marine conservation zone. but boats in this popular area of the dorset coast can create problems. we've counted up to a50 boats here in one day. it's the noise, the anchors, the general movement of everything seems to affect the seahorses. they're very prone to stress, and so if you can sort of reduce that stress then they're quite happy, relaxed seahorses. if they have a lot of stress, then they move back out to sea. the wildlife presenter steve backshall has dived here, and says boat anchors and moori...

Have their habitat damaged by traditional anchors. john maguire reports. these underwater meadows of seagrass provide a vital habitat teeming with wildlife, and it's where you can find the spiny seahorse. it's a protected species, and studland bay is a marine conservation zone. but boats visiting this popular area of the dorset coast can create problems. we've counted up to a50 boats here in one day. it's the noise, the anchors, the general movement of everything seems to affect the seahorses. they're very prone to stress, and so if you can sort of reduce that stress, then they're quite happy,...

Then they move back out to sea. the wildlife presenter steve backshall has dived here, and says boat anchors and mooring chains can damage the sea bed. they completely destroy all the substrate around it, which means that all the seagrass dies, and it gets rid of that binding substrate, which then washes away as sand. and so you just end up with these big, barren circles around all the moorings. and within that, nothing can live — and particularly not sea horses. so here's a solution. the sea horse trust is installing this environmentally friendly design. instead of a chain, the mooring is a...

It's the noise, the anchors, the general movement of everything seems to affect the seahorses. they're very prone to stress, and so if you can sort of reduce that stress, then they're quite happy, relaxed seahorses. if they have a lot of stress, then they move back out to sea. the wildlife presenter steve backshall has dived here and says boat anchors and mooring chains can damage the sea bed. they completely destroy all the substrate around it, which means that all the seagrass dies, and it gets rid of that binding substrate, which then washes away as sand. and so you just end up with these b...

Kraken to Join LifeMoor Mooring Chain Inspection Project May 27, 2021 06:00 ET | Source: Kraken Robotics Inc. Kraken Robotics Inc. Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador, CANADA ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland, May 27, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kraken Robotics Inc. (TSX-V: PNG, OTCQB: KRKNF), Canada’s Ocean Company™, is pleased to announce that it has joined the LifeMoor project, an industry collaboration focused on improving the lifetime estimate of subsea mooring chains. This 4-year “Knowledge Building Project for Industry” started in 2018. Li...