Invasion Of The Snowflake Coral

For more than a year, conservation workers have been quietly battling one of Hawaii's most serious aquatic invasive species -- snowflake coral -- under the only commercial pier in Kauai's Port Allen. The battle is being waged with plastic stretch-wrap -- the kind shippers use to bind products to pallets. Scuba divers enter the murky, 30-foot-deep water under the pier and tightly wrap the columns that support it with stretch-wrap. They bind it with a saltwater-resistant tape. And they leave...