The 11th installment of the “What Can be Saved?” series, produced by Patrick Whittle, Bob Bukaty, Sarah Blake Morgan, David Phillip, Terry Chea and Manuel Valdes, profiles a small marine sanctuary off the coast of Georgia, established nearly 40 years ago, that helped give rise to one of the most critical conservation priorities in the world: How to protect the two-thirds of our planet that is covered by ocean.
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How a small stretch of ocean stirred a conservation movement
Kimberly Roberson, foreground, research coordinator for Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary, and Justin Miyano, vessel operations coordinator, surface after diving in the sanctuary off the coast of Savannah, Ga., Oct. 28, 2019. The site is named after Milton “Sam” Gray, a biologist who studied it in the 1960s and identified it as an ecosystem worth saving – a reef not far from the U.S. coast that teemed with life, especially an “abundance of diversity of invertebrates,” says Roberson.
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