Buoy System Invented in the Florida Keys Helps Protect Reefs Everywhere

By Tim Grollimund

The Mooring Buoy System started with an idea, was implemented on a small scale, and grew to become a world dominating practice. John Halas told me that as an employee of the Key Largo National Marine Sanctuary in 1981, the light bulb went off, and he thought through his idea, presented it to the powers that be, and got permission to set 6 experimental mooring buoys on French Reef using Harold Hudson’s core sampling technique. Those first 6 mooring buoys, with years of maintenance, are still on French Reef today. Today in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, we have nearly 800 mooring and special use buoys. The number worldwide is over 4,000. In a modern era where most of the world’s reefs are in trouble, the implications for reef conservation from the mooring buoy system are incalculable.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tim Grollimund
• Release date: Mar 2, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370345212

Tim Grollimund

Tim spent nearly a decade in Key Largo, Florida. He wrote the scuba diving column for the local newspaper, The Reporter, for over three years, and also served as a Working Group member and Alternate Representative on the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council. His ebooks are all based on his newspaper columns. Each ebook has a collection of underwater images shot by Tim. The ebooks cover a wide range of marine life species and ocean conservation topics.

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Buoy System Invented in the Florida Keys Helps Protect Reefs Everywhere

Tim Grollimund

Author: Tim Grollimund

Date Published: March 2, 2017

ISBN: 978-1-3703452-1-2

Publisher: Smashwords Edition

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Table of Contents

Buoy System Invented in the Florida Keys Helps Protect Reefs Everywhere

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Reporter

Mooring Buoy System

About The Author

Other eBooks, Prints and Keepsakes

Articles I used to write this column

Acknowledgments

To Dad, who knew I loved the sea, and always encouraged me to pursue my passion.

Introduction

When I moved to the Florida Keys in