Possible southern reef closure

[ggunn]

Our informants were both at the official meeting and are unimpeachable. In fact, we double-checked the information against the PDF from Aldora Divers too.

I have been diving Cozumel for more than 25 years; how much diving there have you done? I can assure you, despite what your "unimpeachable" informants say, that whatever is causing the blight that is affecting the hard corals in the waters off Cozumel, it isn't due to divers handling, kicking, or rubbing up against them. In all my years of diving there I have never once come into any kind of contact with a brain coral, and I have never seen another diver do it, either. I cannot say that it hasn't ever happened, but to say that all the occurrences of this disease are due to contact with divers is, as charitably as I can put it, ludicrous.

 

[Manatee Diver]

I have been diving Cozumel for more than 25 years; how much diving there have you done? I can assure you, despite what your "unimpeachable" informants say, that whatever is causing the blight that is affecting the hard corals in the waters off Cozumel, it isn't due to divers handling, kicking, or rubbing up against them. In all my years of diving there I have never once come into any kind of contact with a brain coral, and I have never seen another diver do it, either. I cannot say that it hasn't ever happened, but to say that all the occurrences of this disease are due to contact with divers is, as charitably as I can put it, ludicrous.

Not only that but if it is primarily driven by divers then why are rarely visited east side reefs just as badly affected by SCTLD?

 

[gopbroek]

Probably about 20 metric tons after that Lakam Ha development around Palancar is finished.

Do you have any info on this development?

 

[gopbroek]

Not only that but if it is primarily driven by divers then why are rarely visited east side reefs just as badly affected by SCTLD?

Perhaps dissolved cocaine from the lost loads on the east side.
Large network of cocaine discovered along Cozumel coast - Riviera Maya News
Borderland Beat: Isla Cozumel: Huge Ball / Haul of Cocaine Found Underwater
Package of cocaine washes up on Cozumel beach - Riviera Maya News
Military finds cocaine washed up on Cozumel beach - Riviera Maya News

 

[Manatee Diver]

Perhaps dissolved cocaine from the lost loads on the east side.
Large network of cocaine discovered along Cozumel coast - Riviera Maya News
Borderland Beat: Isla Cozumel: Huge Ball / Haul of Cocaine Found Underwater
Package of cocaine washes up on Cozumel beach - Riviera Maya News
Military finds cocaine washed up on Cozumel beach - Riviera Maya News

Ok, now I am planning another trip to Cozumel. East side here I come.

 

[JFS]

Do you have any info on this development?[/QUOTE

Looks to be at cielo.

 

[gopbroek]

So................ surveyors and topographers are out and working onshore near Ceilo, I think I smell a rat here. No boats below Palancar and no near road access from the road means no way to monitor the activities in progress. Perhaps the closure is to allow a new development in a very environmentally sensitive area without prying eyes.

 

[CajunDiva]

At last...the voice of reason.

 

[horn34]

So................ surveyors and topographers are out and working onshore near Ceilo, I think I smell a rat here. No boats below Palancar and no near road access from the road means no way to monitor the activities in progress. Perhaps the closure is to allow a new development in a very environmentally sensitive area without prying eyes.

That's been the popular tinfoil hat opinion on Cozumel facebook all week.

 

[gopbroek]

That's been the popular tinfoil hat opinion on Cozumel facebook all week.

When I here an action is for the benefit future generations ('the children') I know it's about money.