Figure 1. Monitoring coral transplant media at the Coral Garden Samalona Spot (GGI SCUBA Dokumentation)
The Coral Garden Samalona Spot is a coral transplant location that began to be developed in September 2021 through PT's CSR program. PLN UID SULSELRABAR with GGI SCUBA by lowering spyder media and Coral trees. In 2022, coral transplant locations will be developed or expanded by lowering the spyder, table, and attachment media to dead massive coral. In its implementation, coral monitoring will be carried out every 2 weeks until 2023.
Figure 2. The ship crashed into a coral reef (Coral Transplant) at the Coral Garden Samalona Spot
In early 2024, there was a maritime accident where a ship from a company accidentally entered and turned towards the transplant location on Samalona Island, which was thought to be due to negligence on the part of the ship's crew so it entered and ended up at the transplant location at the Samalona coral garden spot which has a depth of 5 meters.
Figure 3. Coral Conditions Before the Ship Collision Occurred (GGI SCUBA Documentation)
On February 24, 2024, we took the time to monitor the condition of the transplanted corals that the team had sent down. As a result of the monitoring, the team found that the media spyder that was sent down in the first stage in 2021 was badly damaged or destroyed due to being hit by the ship and 2 media coral trees were lost. not found. Meanwhile, the condition of the transplanted corals in Phase 2 which will be launched in 2022 will not be affected by the ship collision.
Figure 4. Conditions after a ship collision (GGI SCUBA Documentation)
The condition of the Trasnplan Coral which was lowered to Phase 2 in 2022 is classified as having quite good growth and is starting to become lush. Especially the spyder media has quite good coral growth. This can be seen in the monitoring results carried out by the GGI Scuba team in the image below.
Figure 5. The condition of the coral in the spyder media (Stage 2) is starting to become lush.
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