First underwater marine habitat built in Sussex waters

The first underwater marine habitat in Sussex waters has been completed.  Video courtesy of Sussex Underwater

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00:00So here we're actually launching a big concrete structure to put into the water

00:07to basically create a three-dimensional habitat for a range of different species

00:11to start to hopefully colonise in this area that's just recently been protected over the last four

00:17years. We need to put this in because the tallest through this area of the years they've knocked down

00:21every little edge anything they've ripped the bottom of pieces they take the crust away actually

00:28and and we need to put something back. And these habitats that we've made are just mainly for

00:34lobsters and for the wheat to grow on and try and get the kelp back. The inshore trawling band has

00:41helped in certain areas and it is trying just to give nature a start. So the commercial dive team

00:48here will be kind of lifting the structure dropping it in the water the commercial dive team will be

00:54in the water making sure everything's in place. Put the top of the hotel onto the base and that now

01:01leaves a three and a half tonne block in situ ready to go for marine life to move in. And then we're

01:11going to have an additional concrete block dropped in just off of the reef so that anyone who comes to

01:17visit any of the divers or free divers that come to this area they could take video footage or film

01:23or camera and record what's actually there. So we've got change over time it's really really good.

01:28Coming back in a week I would want to see a couple of days starting to appear on it but if I came back in

01:34a year that would be part of the sea. We'd be part of the sea we'd be stuck living on it.

01:38It would just be well we'll see we'll see we'll do a very good report and see what happens.

01:43It's definitely something that's a real positive and I'm hoping that we'll get a few more of these

01:47out here so that we get some of these some of these really good structures so that people can come

01:52here visit and kind of see what our marine seas actually hold and it's a huge amount of life.

01:59I'm feeling related actually, I'm related. That's the first thing to go back in the sea in Sussex.

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