The 1.3 billion project to improve, deepen and widen Port Everglades is still in limbo because of the millions of precious corals and other endangered marine species that will be impacted once the dredging begins.
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"Some of the last remaining staghorn corals now in Florida are here around Port Everglades," Ross Cunning, a research biologist with Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, said on a warm morning off the coast of Fort Lauderdale Beach.
Local 10's Louis Aguirre joined researchers led by coral scientists from the John G. Shedd Aquarium as the team documented how many living corals there are in the waters off Port Everglades, thriving against all odds.
"We need to protect those corals from every threat that we can to give them the best possible chance to survive," Cunning said.
