Living with Corals Again: A Diver’s Diary
Date & Time: September 15, 5:30 p.m.
____ a sad day for me.
This morning, I went scuba diving at my ____ spot in the sea.
It was a place that was full of beautiful and ____ corals.
But today, I saw that ____ were getting sick.
I was ____.
Because of the warm seawater, corals have turned ____.
____ types of waste have harmed the corals, too.
Now the ____ has lost its colors and beauty.
I’m ____ worried.
Date & Time: October 2, 10:00 a.m.
I have thought about ____ to help corals.
My plan is to ____ a team of divers.
My team can go underwater and take ____ of the sick corals.
Many corals get ____ because they don’t get good care in time.
I’m ____ that other divers are worried about this, too.
I’m going to ____ a message online to look for volunteer divers.
Date & Time: November 7, 9:40 p.m.
For the last two weeks, my team ____ put ointment on sick corals.
We also took some healthy baby corals from the sea and ____ them in tanks of seawater.
We feed them clam parts and seaweed ____.
This food helps baby ____ grow stronger.
When they are ready, we’ll plant them onto the ____ in the sea.
Our ____ is to grow many healthy corals.
I look ____ to seeing the results!
Date & Time: November 27, 11:30 a.m.
____ night, some healthy corals in the sea laid eggs during the full moon.
This morning, hundreds of baby corals were born from the ____ like magic.
They were cute and ____.
I hope this miracle will happen to ____ sick corals, too.
Although it took time to heal the sick corals and grow healthy ones, it was worth the ____ work.