The Marine Foundation is in the process of designing an installation for Reef Seen Divers. Sculptors, Toin Adams and Celia Gregory, will collaborate to create an exciting new structure attracting a new wave of interest in the project and providing valuable visual material as well as generating an emotional connection with the ocean through innovative design. The project is planned for later this year and will use solar energy to power the structure.

The decision to actively restore the devastated reefs using the Bio-Rock Technique was initiated by The Taman Sari Hotel and now they have created the biggest series of these structures in the world. The reefs were destroyed by dynamite, cyanide and over-fishing. It was clear that the fishing eco-system had almost completely disappeared and their very livelihood had been destroyed.

The success of the Bio-rock Technique is undisputedl and the local fisherman have established their own patrol to ensure that fishing practices remain sustainable. Illegal equipment is confiscated and there is a real sense of taking responsibility for the health of their local marine eco-system. The young Balinese are employed in the hotels and trained to work in the diving industries. Tom Goreau and Wolf Hilbertz, his co-inventor of Bio-rock technology, trained these divers to manage and monitor the living coral reef Bio-rocks and ‘the Reef Gardeners’garden these reefs; removing star of thorns and other invasive species.