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AS defined and differentiated, coral is a live animal while a reef is a physical structure. Reefs are the habitat of corals which have been erected through the secretions of coral polyps over many generations. Reef-building corals are only found in shallow tropical and subtropical waters.
Want to look behind me. >> there's no one to go. >> all of those cars waiting to move in front of him, no one was moving anyway. you were dead in the water. a lot of them didn't make it from what i heard. >> i'm sure if the winds were 80 miles an hour. >> there was diesel fuel floating in the water as well in the coast guard couldn't coming too far, because of the reefs, and a lot of people can't swim that far a couple of people died of smoke inhalation as well. i know of a lady who stood in the water for 8 hours. >> this is the historic banyan tree, 150-year-old majestic tree at the center of...
Everybody else jumping in the water. flames were shooting over the top. i didn't want to look behind me, because i knew they were behind me. >> there was nowhere to go. you were pinned between the fire and the ocean. >> all those cars sitting and waiting to move, no one was moving anywhere. they all jumped in the ocean and a lot of them didn't make it, from what i heard. >> if the winds were 80 miles per hour, the surf must have been -- >> it wasn't just that. there was diesel fuel in the water as well and the officials couldn't come in because of the reefs. i know a lady that stood in the wat...
The National Marine Sanctuary Foundation awarded over $2 million in grants to support coral restoration in the US Pacific Islands, including Hawaiʻi, American Sāmoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam.
The impact of this event on organisms and on the physical state of the ocean. for myself, i am a coral reef restoration specialist, so we are working on actually restoring reefs in this event and how the reefs faired during this event will give us information as to how we can improve our methods going forward in the face of continued climate change. and katey, last question — you said it might not feel like a big difference to us, this temperature change in the ocean. what's your message to americans and people around the world really of why they need to pay attention to this? so, this is im...