Coral Reef Fact:
photo: Paige Gill - Florida Keys NMS
The National Marine Sanctuary Program was created in 1972, to protect marine & Great Lakes areas of special significance. In 1975 the first sanctuary was established in the area surrounding the sunken remains of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor now an artificial reef.
Learn more about US National Marine Sanctuaries
Fact source: http://kids.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry?id=NatlMarS
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