Message #152
1) Southwest Florida Fishing News has an article in the March 2000 Issue,
page 10, “Your Eternal Reef Can Help Save The Oceans” A related item is
that Eternal Reefs just completed production of a fantastic 15 minute
video detailing the process of creating a memorial reef. The video is
available by contacting Eternal Reefs (www.eternalreefs.com).
2) Several Reef Ball companies (Reef Ball DG, Reef Ball Coalition, Reef
Innovations and Reef Ball Foundation) attended the TILT educational
conference in Roanoke Virginia this week and gave presentations on Reef
Ball educational programs. During the conference, a meeting was held with
the Marine Resources Commission, Living Classroom Foundation, Institute
for Connecting Research to K-12 and representatives from the concrete
industry. A plan was developed to create a statewide Reef Ball educational
and production project with the goal of producing thousands of Reef Balls
by the schools for the State’s artificial reef program. If you are
interested in joining the committee for this project (which communicates
by e-mail in an e-groups format) send us your e-mail address and interest
perspective and we’ll sign you up. If you are from Virginia and you have
a stake in education or reef building….this is your chance to participate
in the development and support of this grand effort!
3) Manatee County, Florida revealed its five year artificial reef
development plan and it includes 9 sites with Reef Balls including
experimental arrays for studying deployment spacing. Each site will
ultimately contain between 100-300 Reef Balls.
4) 2 Scientific Papers on the Malaysian Reef Ball project are being
presented today at the 20th ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON SEA TURTLE BIOLOGY AND
CONSERVATION. Reef Balls were used extensively in Malaysia to deter
illegal netting which affected threatened sea turtle populations with
great success. We’ll get a copy of the papers for posting on the website
as soon as they are released.
5) Reef Ball is executing contracts this week to bring in a new authorized
contractor to cover New Zealand, Cook Islands, Tonga, Tokelau
Islands,Western Samoa, and the Fiji Islands. The Company being formed is
called REEF BALL NEW ZEALAND LTD and will be located at 38 McDonald
Street, Napier, New Zealand. Reef Ball New Zealand is also in longer term
negotiations with the Reef Ball Development Group to secure these areas to
be Reef Ball’s sole representatives in these areas.
6) Tauchen Magazine, the largest Diving Magazine in Germany, is writing
an article about PADI Aware and the Reef Ball program being undertaken by
PADI Aware.
7) Press contacts are invited to join the Tanya Streeter (World Record
Free Diver) lead Reef Ball Coalition trip in April at a special price for
reporters….contact the Reef Ball Coalition (www.reefballcoalition.org) for
details.
8) We now have a web page showing our best hi-resolution available
pictures for the Press online at www.reefball.com/presspix.htm
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