Deeper waters are cooler, and may give corals a fighting chance for survival.
Just offshore near Key Largo Florida, a small armada of boats gathers for an unprecedented mission: saving corals in critical danger.
"If a coral bleaches, it doesn't mean it's dead, but if conditions don't improve and it can't recover within a couple weeks to a month, it will die," Lesneski says. "They go from a brown color to a clear color the tissue is clear and when that happens, they're basically starting to starve to death," Nedimyer says.
Teams of divers are mobilizing to quickly gather corals from shallow underwater and transplant them into deeper, cooler water. Coral reefs are often called the rainforests of the sea, supporting a quarter of all sea creatures, creating barriers that protect against storm surge, and contributing nearly $10 trillion a year to the global economy.
He says one potential key to survival is finding and growing corals that are more resilient to the heat.
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