MikeJacobs
Guest
Thanks Marvel for a terrific if not sad end to a perfect birthday.
Coral Reef Adventure provides terrific visual illustrations of "healthy reef" and "unhealthy reef." I'm saddened tonight to reflect that most of our reefs here favor the "unhealthy" scenes.
Being new to reef diving (they don't do coral in CA), I hope that the degredation in our local reefs I've seen during the summer is seasonal and the result of temporary warming and sedimentation (these are the two major reef killers according to the film).
I was also sickened at the carniage folliwing mini-season - toppled sea fans and crushed barrel sponges wherever a tenatious bug-hunter attempted a prize (and I was one of you). We compound the trauma every year.
Clearly, whatever the causes, there are stretches of stone dead reef nearby that once clearly flourished... never to return.
While the IMAX will make me much more careful about dragging equipment or what I touch, there's little more I can imagine doing. I've had first hand experience lobbying for governmental solutions - imagine a shore-dive license or permit requiring a test and continuing education... I fear the necessary fees and typical ineffectiveness of the government program would be a tremendous disappointment and a setback.
So, tonight even though there are dozens of issues to warrant my concern - 9/11 and its aftermath, world hunger, I'm another year older, etc., I'm just damned saddened by the condition of Broward reefs.
I keep comparing them to the "unhealthy" reefs in the film and thinking that one day we may only see... rubble.
Comments? Consolations? Words of wisdom?
Coral Reef Adventure provides terrific visual illustrations of "healthy reef" and "unhealthy reef." I'm saddened tonight to reflect that most of our reefs here favor the "unhealthy" scenes.
Being new to reef diving (they don't do coral in CA), I hope that the degredation in our local reefs I've seen during the summer is seasonal and the result of temporary warming and sedimentation (these are the two major reef killers according to the film).
I was also sickened at the carniage folliwing mini-season - toppled sea fans and crushed barrel sponges wherever a tenatious bug-hunter attempted a prize (and I was one of you). We compound the trauma every year.
Clearly, whatever the causes, there are stretches of stone dead reef nearby that once clearly flourished... never to return.
While the IMAX will make me much more careful about dragging equipment or what I touch, there's little more I can imagine doing. I've had first hand experience lobbying for governmental solutions - imagine a shore-dive license or permit requiring a test and continuing education... I fear the necessary fees and typical ineffectiveness of the government program would be a tremendous disappointment and a setback.
So, tonight even though there are dozens of issues to warrant my concern - 9/11 and its aftermath, world hunger, I'm another year older, etc., I'm just damned saddened by the condition of Broward reefs.
I keep comparing them to the "unhealthy" reefs in the film and thinking that one day we may only see... rubble.
Comments? Consolations? Words of wisdom?