MOUA Coral Greenhouse

The Coral Greenhouse is the flagship of the Museum of Underwater Art: a skeletal chapel of stainless steel seeded onto the sand at John Brewer Reef in late 2019, filled with sculpted figures tending planters of transplanted coral. Sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor built it to age, and it has: corals thicken along the frames, baitfish stream through the naves, and batfish and trevally treat the roofline as a cleaning station. It is an easy, shallow dive with a purpose beyond novelty, doubling as a coral nursery and a place to talk about reef stewardship, and it photographs like nothing else in Queensland.

اللحظة التي جئت من أجلها: Underwater sculpture pavilion, growing coral transplants, fish life colonizing art, easy depth

التضاريس: Sand and rubble flat beside reef, holding a large stainless-steel sculpture pavilion

نقطة الدخول: Day boats from Townsville moor inside John Brewer Reef's sheltered lagoon edge; the structure sits on sand nearby.

المخاطر: Mind fins around transplant planters; otherwise a benign lagoon-edge dive.

الحفاظ على البيئة البحرية: An active coral-restoration installation: no touching the frames or planters.