00:00Making headway on marine research. This is all of the areas of operation.
00:07This 40 year old state government owned research vessel will in four years time be replaced with a bigger $44 million boat.
00:16This investment will enable the construction of a new vessel which will be state of the art with technology that will set us up for the future.
00:24It will give us the capacity to respond quickly to any biosecurity events, whether it's harmful algal blooms.
00:31While planning for the new vessel gets underway, researchers are continuing to monitor the algal bloom off South Australia's coast.
00:39It's now spread to the fragile saline environment of the Coorong, killing thousands of marine worms, crabs and fish.
00:46And what strikes me is the colour of it. It's not a bloom that I've ever seen before.
00:52It's like a very strong black teeth.
00:56How we're going to get it out I'm not sure because once it's in here it's a confined set of bays.
01:01One potential measure could be freshwater flushing.
01:04The Environment Department's working on modelling to determine how effective that strategy could be.
01:10All of the options that may be able to have an impact on dissipating that or flushing it through are being looked at.
01:16It remains to be seen whether they will be appropriate.
01:19For now it's hoped the weekend's wet and windy weather has helped dissipate the bloom along the coast.
01:25It's like still warm water and we are now getting cooler waters and increased agitation and movement as a consequence of the storm.
01:35So these are the things that we would expect to break down that halfway algal bloom.
01:40An expectation that many around the Coorong and coast hope becomes a reality.
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