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Could mass of floating seaborne pumice help replenish depleted reef life in Great Barrier Reef MP?

Writer: Dave Harmon, PW editorDave Harmon, PW editor

MELBOURNE, Australia — The first thing the sailors noticed was the smell of sulfur.


Then, Larissa Brill and Michael Hoult, a couple sailing in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, saw it: a floating mass of volcanic rocks, with some boulders as large as basketballs, blanketing the ocean as far as their boat’s spotlight could illuminate.


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/world/australia/pumice-raft-coral.html

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