The Dive Club and members of Save the Great South Bay, the Long Island Diver’s Association and Sayville Schools’ Rise (research) program participated in an eelgrass collecting dive …
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The Dive Club and members of Save the Great South Bay, the Long Island Diver’s Association and Sayville Schools’ Rise (research) program participated in an eelgrass collecting dive on Saturday, June 15 at Oak Beach.
The group is supporting Rob Vasiluth’s pioneering use of a method he invented to plant eelgrass. Vasiluth’s method consists of gluing eelgrass seeds to clams using a non-toxic glue and dropping the clams in the water; the clams bury themselves, thereby planting the eelgrass seeds.
Eelgrass is the bedrock nutrient source of all sea life. It also sequesters four times more carbon per acre than trees. It cools the earth, thereby reversing climate change.
Text James Bertsch if you’d like to help (516-987-6453).
Their effort will be the largest eelgrass collecting project in New York and perhaps anywhere in the world.
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