There is no one that is clean of the charge of interaction with wildlife. I personally have no concerns about it. I think more damage is done by nature than any human contact could ever do. That does not mean I deliberately would go out and modify the environment, just because I can.. My point is that while there are those who are on the poor fishies ,dont touch them bench , they shed no tears while running that boat with fueled exhaust discharged in the water to be with them and not contact them. Its funny how people draw lines such that they themselves are not party to what they object about. There are those that if you spill a quart of oil everboard it is a crime against mankind. and then,,,, the earth spews millions of gallons of oil without mankind assistance and heals itself. As many times,,, I just want to just throw a log on the fire but have to remind myself that that log has feelings too, so I just turn on the electric heater instead. sniffle sniffle. We have listened to these complaints for years. The responce is many times positive such as cleaner automobiles, and the like ,,,,,,,yet a couple of volcano's blowing thier tops produce ( as claimed), 10,000 years of auto emissions per blow. Any cleaning of autos is moot when you include what nature itself does. Would I like to have the 60's cars back again,,,,, absolutely not. Do i think the new cars have gone any distance to help the ozone. not one ioda. Have we made the exhaust smell better in the mall parking lots YEPPER. I am one of these divers that believes that anywhere I go I do so for the enjoyment of it. I avoid touching things because i want them to be there the way they have always been to enjoy agian and agian. I dont consider the waters equal to a garden where you pick what you want and plow it under each year and start over. Not a single one of my concerns are in regards for the inhabitants of the dive area. Its for the preservation of what is an untouched area to enjoy. For those that may think i dump my car oil in the bay to get rid of it, that is not hte case. Every time we enter the water environment we change it. we have chemicals on us and chemicles in our wet suits and gear. Face it we change the area. We go to coz and eels come out for photo ops when they sence us coming. Heck its like disney land and getting your pic taken with micky. The frequent presence of divers alone does change sea life behavior. So its where the line is drawn and how extreem we react to where others draw thier line. Look how many times the huggers have interviened with wildlife by hunting controls. Someone behind a desk decides there are too many 4 legged widgets in the area and raises the huntine limits jsut to find the negative inpact later is not good because of someone elses intervention. The planet has taken care of it self pretty well for the past eternity. In most cases. unless you interject some incident that the earth can not handle itself,, most likely you are doing more harm than good. by trying to redesign the planet blueprint. The greatest danger comes in when you have someone with the authority to force thier misguided wants on others. Even worse yet arre those that have no authority but do more harm stirring the pot and gettng nothing done. AL GORE comes to mind. Just how large of a footprint does he have whining about ice melting off the top of active lava flowing volcano's. There are those that get all teared up about contacting the .000000001% of a species and dont think a minute that of the 80% of them are consumed by other sealife. Most often we become victoms of our own misplaced over sensitivity. Dont get me wrong I am not the enemy here. I am all for additional protections being put in place where we are allowed to interact as a means to ballance our passing. You just cant allow a popular dive spot to irradicate what made it a popoular dive spot. Out fedreal reservations accomplish this. We also have those that put them selves on equal standing with all life. So if humans have a 99% chance of living to an old age then sea life should be able to do the same. Sealife is part of the food chain for other sealife. Untill humans are part of the food chain for other humans we should not thnk of sealife or any other life the same as us. SOILENT GREEN anyone. The main attraction of sealife for me is that it is natural and mostly unaltered by humans. It is the environment whrere I go to get away from the effects of what humans has screwed up above the water line trying to make it better.
