Offshore Oculina Bank Reef Ball Projects

Picture of Reef Ball with Oculina Coral 800 Feet Below Sea Level

No map...hey, it's just deep water...

• Update on Success of Reef Balls in Oculina  Banks!
• From the NOAA website, "In the late summer of 2000, scientists deployed one hundred five reef balls at three sites on Oculina Banks to determine if the artificial structures could help to re-establish fish habitat that was once provided by Oculina coral heads. A year later, during the Islands in the Stream, South Atlantic Bight Expedition, scientists are encouraged to see fish beginning to aggregate near them."
• Reef Ball Foundation gave a matching grant to NOAA for this project.
• NOAA Ocean Explorer Reef ball at Sebastian's Reef 600-800 feet deep! May 2, 2003
• Experimental Oculina Marine Reserve

• January 2002, Experimental Oculina Project, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce

• Deep Water Oculina Banks Report from The Slate, Jan. 2002 by John Reed, Senior Research Scientist Specialist, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution 

• NOAA Expedition Page

  

  A speckled hind about to enter one of the reef balls deployed at Sebastian's Reef in September 2000. Scientists are encouraged by an increased number of fish at these reef ball sites during the Oculina Bank leg of the Islands in the Stream Expedition.
  
  An Amberjack, Angelfish and Grouper on a deep water Reef Ball.

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