Pioneering Smart Buoy Installed at Maui’s Mala Reef for Worldwide Coral Preservation
Pioneering Smart Buoy Installed at Maui’s Mala Reef for Worldwide Coral Preservation
Revolutionize ocean conservation with Sofar Ocean's smart buoy, the first on Maui for real-time coral reef protection data.
Dec 16, 2020
Sofar Ocean's pioneering smart buoy and mooring platform was installed in late 2020 at Mala Reef by the Lahaina-based nonprofit Kohola Film Project. The system collects real-time data that can be used to help with the preservation and protection of coral reefs that are in crisis worldwide due to accelerating rates of global warming.
The system installed at Mala Reef was the first of its kind on Maui and among the first installed worldwide as part of a new global initiative launched on October 6, 2020 by Aqualink, a philanthropic engineering organization working on building ocean conservation technology.