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The Pink Seafans that had recently been residing in the centre have been returned to their original reef, 18 metres under the sea, courtesy of a kind group of local divers.
The Pink Seafan Eunicella verrucosa is a protected species and Dorset Wildlife Trust has a licence to keep them for educational purposes for a short time.
Pink seafans are a type of native soft coral and each individual seafan is a colony of thousands of creatures that feed separately and share a central stomach. Seafans and other types of slow growing coral are under threat from human activity, especially destructive fishing methods such as scallop dredging.
Seasearch divers have been monitoring the Worbarrow Reef, the most easterly known stronghold for this threatened coral, for many years now. | 
