Developing coral seeding devices and rapid deployment methods RRAP CAD 1-2

Updated: 2026-06-08

This study introduces a new two-part coral seeding concept to efficiently settle, transport, and deploy coral spat. We then tested this concept, with the aims of (1) identifying characteristics of effective, freely deployed (i.e. unattached) seeding devices, (2) describing suitable deployment locations to maximize the success of coral seeding, and (3) comparing surface versus diver-deployed device performance.