Boat left yesterday to study corals south of Hawaii

[Matt Rogers]

Some of you might recall my interview on board the RV Heraclitus.

Well there is another similar expedition that just left shore not far from me to study corals (wish I had known sooner so I could have gone down to see them too. ) check it out!

The White Holly, which served in World War II as a Navy yard freighter on San Francisco Bay, is beginning a new life -- as an oceanographic research vessel for a scientific expedition that seeks to discover how and why so many of the Earth's coral reefs are dying.

The ship is scheduled to embark tonight from Oakland on an extraordinary voyage: a 7,000-mile roundtrip cruise to explore the mysteries of the world's most pristine coral reefs, and at least one uncharted atoll, halfway across the Pacific.
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The 10-week voyage, led by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, will take the 133-foot White Holly to the Line Islands archipelago in the central Pacific, about 1,300 miles south of Honolulu, and explore some of the least-disturbed coral reefs in the world.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...NGR7DNPOS1.DTL

[Birdlady]

Cool! I would be very interested as to their findings!