Around this time last year we shared with you some tantalizing stories from the Solomon Islands aboutforests of soft corals,feeding wild corals和restarting coral farming effortswhere they began in Marau Sound. But in traditional Reef Builders fashion, we held onto the best story and footage, and at long last have spent nearly a year producing one of our most immersive reef diving videos to date.
去年夏天,我们嘲笑了一个令人难以置信的礁石地点Simon’s Nature Preservewhich is one person’s quest to rehabilitate the reef zone in front of his village. Protecting and preserving this place began by designating it as a Marine Protected Area where fishing is not permitted, and the entire place is cordoned off from any boats or pretty much any activity except diving and snorkeling.
但西蒙的珊瑚礁不仅是protected, it has also beencuratedby Simon himself by looking after the corals, making sure they are in the right places – in the shallows that he can easily reach. But perhaps the most exciting part is of this reef zone is how Simon has collected and transported various corals from other reefs and neighboring regions; imagine collecting your own corals and growing them in your own reef tank – now imagine doing the same thing but instead of planting the coral in your tank you planted them on your own reef!
从理论上讲,拥有自己的野生珊瑚收藏的想法听起来很棒,但是我们可以从访问这个地方来证明自己的生命珊瑚礁更加令人难以置信。尽管在其他礁石上,我们有一个我们想检查一次的各种物种的清单,在西蒙的自然保护区,我们正在列出不同物种的品种和颜色菌株,例如我们在内部记录的多样性Acropora florida.
We spent hours diving and snorkeling this fantastical place and did everything in our power to condense as much of the journey as possible into one transportive, vicarious diving experience. We sincerely hope that this video will give viewers some sense of what it’s like to be in the Solomon Islands, diving a tropical environment surrounded by a living catalog of the most diverse corals in the world.