She came round into the wind like a top, and the next moment struck the reef with such a dunch as threw us all flat upon the deck, and came near to shake Mr.
The reef on which we had struck was close in under the southwest end of Mull, off a little isle they call Earraid, which lay low and black upon the larboard.
A carrier pigeon on a passage can achieve a high rate of speed, and Winn reefed again.
He reefed hastily to the uttermost, and at the same time depressed the angle of his flight to meet that upward surge.
The Martha missed stays going in, and inside five minutes she was on the
reef and in possession.
"It has been a beautiful dream in the making to help bring this revolutionary project to life as a solution to help save our vital
reef systems, it will be an incredible accomplishment when these artificial
reefs start enhancing our
reef systems and.
"Climate change seems to be redistributing coral
reefs, the same way it is shifting many other marine species," said Nichole Price, a senior research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences and lead author of the paper.
According to recent findings, Coral
reefs are retreating from equatorial waters and establishing new
reefs in more temperate regions.
Marine Artificial
Reef Research and Development: Integrating Fisheries Management Objectives
Coral
reefs provide food and shelter for 25% of the world's marine species and they support fish stocks that feed more than one billion people around the world.
Read more: Coral
reefs in Thailand's Maya Bay begin to recover
Its paper, published in the Philippine Journal of Science, titled 'Initial Findings of the Nationwide Assessment of Philippine Coral
Reefs,' resulted from data gathered from 2015 to 2017 from over 166 stations, including 108 in Luzon, 31 in the Visayas and 27 in Mindanao.
Artificial
reefs are manmade structures that are "aquatically recycled" to provide habitat for fish and other aquatic organisms.
