Amazing Coral Reef grew on a sunken ship of World War II (photo)

It turns out that artificial reef structures can help coral withstand the threat of a climatic crisis, IFLSCIENCE writes. In focus, technology appeared its Telegram channel. Subscribe to not miss the most info and interesting news from the world of science! Amateur scientists, who often do diving, have gathered a lot of data, which then marine biologists from the University of Bologna in Italy used biodiversity to study the wealth on the wreckage of the "Tistleorm" ship.

The results prove: a strong and healthy coral reef has grown on the sunken ship, which settled many species belonging to more than 70 groups of plants and animals. Climate change and fever in the world is a difficult challenge and high stress for coral reefs. If you do not solve the existing problems, it is likely that by the end of the century we will live in the world without coral.

However, science is not yet complete whether artificial structures such as fragments of sunken ship will help corals cope with the load from warming water. The author of the study and associate professor at the University of Bologna, Eric Karoselly, shares: "Sving ships, especially large ships, is one of the possible examples of artificial reef structures. They are explored how much they can help coral reefs in the fight against climate change.

" The researcher explains: "One of the options is the possible use of artificial reefs to help species of coral reefs move to cooler waters, since global warming causes increases the temperature species living on a solid day (eg corals that should settle on solid soil). Therefore, we believe that such artificial structures, including fragments of sunken ships, can become those "bridges" through the hard bottom and allow these ecosystems to pass through these ecosystems Sandy barriers.

" The results of the study have not yet confirmed whether it is possible. However, as you can see this sunny ship, there are relatively stable coral reefs. It was the Tistlegorm vessel 126 m in length and was a British cargo steamer. During the Second World War, he was shot by German bombing aviation in the Red Sea. As a result, the ship itself quickly flooded, it went to the bottom, taking with him the lives of 42 people on board.

Although his death was a tragic loss, he seems to have got a second chance and created incredible opportunities for new creatures. Karoselly says: "Jacques Cousteau has discovered a sunken ship in 1955, and since the 1990s" Tistlegorm "has become a popular diving place. The biodiversity we study in the study is the result of about 70 years of natural colonization ". So, the coral reefs not only settled on the artificial structure, but coped with mass diving tourism.