Vets, teens transplant corals in Florida Keys

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BIG PINE KEY, Fla. (AP) — A dozen wounded veterans submerged in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary to help transplant corals on a special section of the reef set aside as a remembrance area for fallen American service personnel.

The vets were joined Monday by teens from two organizations to sow staghorn corals on a section of a patch reef permitted to Mote Marine Laboratory.

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