Sri Lankan Reef Ball Projects and Photos
The Boxing Day Tsunami changed Sri Lanka forever. Our Reef Ball teams were there to develop projects only a few days before the Tsunami hit. Since the Tsunami, we have been planning a huge Tsunami memorial consisting of over 6,000 Reef Balls deployed in the shape of a Lotus flower. That project is sceduled to be completed before the 2nd anniversery of the Tsunami. Other projects are being assessed around Sri Lanka by various governmental and NGO organizations. Click here for World Mapping System Information on Sri Lanka
Lanka Princess Hotel Reef Ball Project
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Artificial reefs
Nearly everywhere operated before the coasts Sri Lankas in the past predatory exploitation at the corral reefs, also in Beruwala. Today that is forbidden, but until on natural way new reefs formed, it takes centuries. Michael Weyland, director of the Lanka Princess hotel in Beruwala, started therefore an initiative for artificial reefs. The basis for it ship wrecks or also Reef so mentioned of ball could be: ?One can introduce oneself like balls like a Swiss cheese, thus very strongly perforated. It is amazing, like fast then the small micro organisms settles there.?
Apart from the Tsunami protection Michael Weyland of it promises itself also an attraction for dipping tourists.
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