Coral Reef Buildings... for humans???!

Fishista · 06-23-2008, 07:19 AM

http://www.wolfhilbertz.com/
does anyone know what this guy is about?
can you imagine having a coral reef of your own to live in?
how would it be waterproof? so cool!!!

fishfool · 06-23-2008, 07:20 AM

no dingbat it's for building coral sites underwater to replenish damaged areas, read the link...

Fishista · 06-23-2008, 07:21 AM

d'oh I'm sorry,
I have a Little Mermaid complex

ChrisPrusha · 06-23-2008, 08:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fishfool

no dingbat it's for building coral sites underwater to replenish damaged areas, read the link...

Please refrain from name calling. Thank you.

tims · 06-23-2008, 09:19 AM

i have been folllowing that type of work for many years now. it does sorta work but no long term studies are done yet..

Fishista · 06-24-2008, 04:06 AM

thank you, I appreciate that defense, Chris. I didn't take it badly though.

Loverotties · 06-24-2008, 06:20 AM

But some would.

Sambo · 06-24-2008, 08:31 PM

I read about the biorock stuff ages ago - it looked like a really exciting way to regenerate reefs. I didn't really the inventor died last year though - sad....

Sambo · 06-24-2008, 09:38 PM

Try this link - the pictures explain it all very well:

http://www.globalcoral.org/Pictures%...rch%202008.pdf