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AP Photos: Saving Jamaica’s coral, an undersea labor of love

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AP Photos: Saving Jamaica's coral, an undersea labor of loveThe tropical turquoise waters near the coast of Jamaica are beautiful and inviting, but they disguise the devastation that lurks beneath. Diver Everton Simpson kicks up some sand as he moves closer to the coral nursery and harvests some of the precious crop to be transplanted in a protected area. The years of care that Simpson has devoted to trying to bring back Jamaica’s coral reefs are shown by the cuts on his hands as he painstakingly works to transplant the new coral.

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