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Coral community recovery has been followed for five years 
since the destruction of a portion of Molasses Reef, Key 
Largo National Marine Sanctuary, by a 122 meter freighter, 
which ran aground in August 1984. Underwater repetitive and 
random photographic methods, visual counts, and artificial 
substrates were used between 1984 and 1989 to assess coral 
populations, cover, recruitment, and the fate of coral 
colonies damaged by the grounding. We report here on data and 
results from random photographic methods and underwater 
visual censuses.