Reef Cells was founded in 1990 as Bio-Marine Technologies to develop materials and methods for protecting, enhancing and creating marine ecosystems. Emphasis on the development of artificial reef modules with interconnected cellular interior habitat spaces prompted the renaming of the organization to Reef Cells. Though the name changed, the goal remains the same, to design, develop, build and deploy artificial reef structure to enhance marine environments, build organism habitat, support coral restoration, protect coastlines, and use art to attract divers away from fragile natural reefs.


Reef Cells primarily specializes in designing innovative and adaptive materials, devices and methods to enhance the marine environment by uniting with other research institutions, experts, partners, stakeholders and organizations. Our primary goal is to design and construct structures that mimic natural reef habitat and use submerged artwork to lure divers away from fragile natural reefs. We sincerely believe marine habitat loss can be mitigated and even reversed through restoration practices including building new artificial habitat reefs, supporting coral settlement techniques, coral cultivation, out-planting and using art to lure divers away from recovering fragile natural reefs.



