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Well, now to another of our CNN Heroes, ordinary people making an extraordinary impact on the world.  

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And it's viewers like you who tell us about them on our Web site.  

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This week we want to introduce you to Todd Barber.  

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He's an avid scuba diver trying to save dying coral reefs around the world, and he's making a difference.

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Reefs are dying.  

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Human activity around the world is impacting what's happening underwater.  

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If we don't do something to save our coral reefs, we will lose them all and the impact will be devastating for humanity.

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In 1988, I was on a trip with my father and we went to the Cayman Islands,  

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and we're looking at a coral reef that I had been taking pictures of since I was a baby and the reef was gone.  

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My heart sank, and I had a strong passion to try to change that,  

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and my father and I sat down one night and came up with the idea of how to fix it.

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My name is Todd Barber and I make reef balls used to help restore reefs around the world.  

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Reef balls serve as the base habitat for a natural reef to grow upon.  

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They were designed so that you can plant corals on them.  

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My goal was to mimic nature, not dictate nature.

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Reef balls are made with a special cement that lasts over 500 years.  

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They're portable, inexpensive and they're environmentally friendly.

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I call this hatching a reef ball.

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For me personally, the satisfaction comes from diving on a reef ball and seeing that the environment has been rehabilitated  

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and that the reef is actually there and that our grandkids will be able to see the same thing.