Future of Diving in 25 years or less

[Nick Steele]

Over the next 25 years I believe we will see coral reefs migrate north and south throughout our oceans as well as major losses. Even in the past 10 years of my underwater adventures I have seen sites blown away but I have recently seen sites get added to as-well.

In my mind global warming is a stupid name and causes a ton of confusion to non scientific people. The world has been hotter and colder as someone has already pointed out. Humans are just accelerating the process and not giving organisms a time to adapt.

In all honesty most of my diving so far hasn’t even been on coral reefs besides my ow checkouts. And I believe I would be perfectly fine diving on ledges and worm reefs for many years. Even in sandy areas I can find things to keep me entertained easily.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

Absolutely. There here in Nova Scotia then they must follow me to New York every summer because they're there too. Man, the poop.

California’s pretty bad with those geese. Typical, everybody comes here for a visit then never leaves. We never had very good illegal immigration policies or enforcement. I wonder if their offspring are covered under DACA? They must know it’s a sanctuary state.

 

[KevinNM]

California’s pretty bad with those geese. Typical, everybody comes here for a visit then never leaves. We never had very good illegal immigration policies or enforcement. I wonder if their offspring are covered under DACA? They must know it’s a sanctuary state.

Have you considered the SSS plan? Shoot, sauté, and shut up?

 

[woodcarver]

Just so nobody runs out of stuff to worry about, there's a whole line of active volcanos running down through all these beautiful islands and reefs we all like to visit. Both the Caribbean and in the Pacific. Some are considered past due. Another reshaping waiting to happen...

 

[Namreg 58]

......not to mention the atolls in the South China Sea being so beautifully sculpted into military bases.

Don't you just love a nuclear sunrise !!!!!

 

[Wingy]

@woodcarver - not just there - it's an incredible thing to watch the earth breath, build, bubble , consume itself and all the other wicked things seismically aware divers can see if they travel and look for more than just fish.

I've dived through 6 quakes now, inside active volcanic vents, played around in hydrothermal vents. I tend to like young islands and their opposite - atolls - from a geographic viewpoint diving wise as well as topside.

More people should dive inside volcanic vents and stick their hand inside a gap in the earth as it contracts and expands during an earthquake. That's living

 

[Remy B.]

Over the next 25 years I believe we will see coral reefs migrate north and south throughout our oceans as well as major losses. Even in the past 10 years of my underwater adventures I have seen sites blown away but I have recently seen sites get added to as-well.

In my mind global warming is a stupid name and causes a ton of confusion to non scientific people. The world has been hotter and colder as someone has already pointed out. Humans are just accelerating the process and not giving organisms a time to adapt.

In all honesty most of my diving so far hasn’t even been on coral reefs besides my ow checkouts. And I believe I would be perfectly fine diving on ledges and worm reefs for many years. Even in sandy areas I can find things to keep me entertained easily.

I guess you have not watch the video, and write what you did.

 

[Nick Steele]

@Remy B.
Actually I have watched Chasing coral and it was a good.

Why/what makes you believe I haven’t?

 

[Remy B.]

Do you understand that it takes hundreds of years for coral to grow to something substantial, the other problems is as Coral die they will not reproduce, another problem is that even some late Coral offsprings make it to reproduce the polipols appear to not be able to cope with the temperature so traveling from where they were released and finding colder waters and the same amount of sunlight seems to be very hard to impossible.

The documentary as well contradicts what you say about temperatures been higher or lower in the past and not affecting coral, the cores samples they have taken didn't show the bleaching problem they are facing now.

We probably will see other form of coral reef like the one in the UK, which is dull compared to the warmer waters corals with the beautiful colors and marine live that we find in the caribbean, atlantic and pacific water bodys.

 

[Nick Steele]

Do you understand that it takes hundreds of years for coral to grow to something substantial, the other problems is as Coral die they will not reproduce, another problem is that even some late Coral offsprings make it to reproduce the polipols appear to not be able to cope with the temperature so traveling from where they were released and finding colder waters and the same amount of sunlight seems to be very hard to impossible.

Yes some corals grow very slowly at less than an inch a year but there are others that can/will grow at 8-10 inches a year. While these usually won’t be the prettiest or most benifical they are still corals.

As far as corals not producing once dead that is true but have you forgot about the many coral farms now in operation? I’ve also heard that in the future scientist might need to look at coral reef aquarist for specimens to help repopulate areas.

The documentary as well contradicts what you say about temperatures been higher or lower in the past and not affecting coral, the cores samples they have taken didn't show the bleaching problem they are facing now.

I never said anything about corals being affected or uneffected because I simply wouldn’t know. But it is a proven fact the earth has been warmer and colder then it presently is and humans are just accelerating the process they didn’t create it.

Also I would love to see the data for how they figured the corals from back then didn’t suffer any events of coral bleaching as I would find it very interesting to read if you have any reliable sources for that information.