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By Capt. David Bacon, Noozhawk Columnist
April 15, 2021
| 4:00 p.m.
In 2019, Sant Barbara resident Chris Goldblatt set out to design the world’s most advanced ocean reef unit. The result of what became a monumental research and development project is the Sea Cave, which is a thing of engineering beauty in the eyes of someone like me who works hard for a healthy, thriving ocean full of sustainable life.
Sea Cave inventor Chris Goldblatt with a flatbed of reef units on way to help ocean life thrive.
(Courtesy photo)
A miniature model was fabricated and temporarily deployed as a short-term experiment on the sea floor off Santa Barbara. Lush kelp grew up from the structure and critters quickly adopted it as home. The Sea Cave held small kelp holdfasts and showed excellent stability in the currents and swells.