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Sailors encounter floating pumice ‘raft’ drifting across the Pacific Ocean

(LONDON) — Sailors in the South Pacific were surprised this month to find themselves sailing through a sea of stone. Australian couple Michael and Larissa Hoult were on their yacht en route to Fiji ...
Channel 3000

Giant pumice stone could help heal Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

A “raft” of floating pumice rock the size of Manhattan is drifting towards Australia, bringing along with it new marine life that could help with the recovery of the Great Barrier Reef’s corals, half ...
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Giant Pumice Raft Floating Toward Australia Could Help Replenish Great Barrier Reef

An underwater volcano is thought to have produced a sheet of pumice that stretches 58 square miles. A massive raft made of pumice stones is floating toward Australia, carrying marine organisms that ...
Bristol Herald Courier

There's a giant volcanic rock 'raft' floating in the ocean. It might actually help boost habitats.

Michael and Larissa Hoult were sailing from the Vava’u islands of Tonga to Fiji in the South Pacific Ocean when they saw it — a “total rock rubble slick” extending for miles around them. The rocks, ...