Pemuteran reef

In the north-western corner of Bali, close to a ferry to Java and a national park, there is a fishing village of Pemuteran. It was famous for excellent coral few decades ago. Eventually most of the coral was broken, partially because of a high tech fishing (using explosives and cyanide)

After local ppl found that stream of tourists has nearly vanished, they decided to re-grow a coral. Explosives fishing was banned, but normally new coral would take tens of years to appear. So they decided to help coral by creating a steel frames underwater, connected to direct current generated by small wind turbines. The current performs electrolysis releasing calcium that is used by newly planted corals to build themselves.


Few pics under cut.
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In spite of lacking a lot of colorful fish, the reef is interesting on it's own. I wish I could go there in few years to check up the improvements.