[Coral-List] Reassessing Coral Reefs
Alex Brylske
brylske at me.com
Thu Apr 2 21:40:11 EDT 2015
John:
This is precisely the issue. I was diving with my research class today off Key West. We had green water, 15-feet of vis and the “reef," of course, is nothing but non-descript carbonate rock covered with macroalgae. There were also several new tourist divers aboard from Michgan. Their comment: “That was awesome!” But I’d probably say the same thing if I had never even seen the ocean before, and was up to my armpits in snow last week.
Alex
> On Apr 2, 2015, at 11:41 AM, John Ware <jware at erols.com> wrote:
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> Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Reassessing Coral Reefs
> Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2015 08:41:13 -0700
> From: John Ware <jware at erols.com>
> To: Peter Sale <sale at uwindsor.ca>
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> Hi List,
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> As an anecdotal addition to Peter's comments:
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> Some time ago my wife and I visited Curacao for a dive vacation. She
> came up from the first dive and expressed my feelings very well: "It was
> like diving over a graveyard." All dead coral and few fish.
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> However, the younger (20s, 30s) folks on the boat, with only a
> short-term view, were commenting about how beautiful the reefs and fish
> were.
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> Depends on your perspective.
> John
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> On 4/1/2015 11:01 AM, Peter Sale wrote:
>> Hi listers,
>> The issue of sport divers not knowing the difference between a living,
>> healthy reef and a dead reef is real, and a sad commentary on our times.
>> The main reason Alena Szmant and I put together the booklet, Reef
>> Reminiscences, in 2012, was because I realized that large numbers of
>> younger reef researchers and managers had never seen a healthy reef. In
>> it, 12 older researchers reminisce about reefs they worked on when they
>> were young.
>> Perhaps the dive industry could also make use of it. Its available for
>> download at http://www.petersalebooks.com/?page_id=1428
>> Its even free. And it even has the story of Jack Randall's first wetsuit.
>>
>> Peter Sale
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>> sale at uwindsor.ca @PeterSale3
>> www.uwindsor.ca/sale www.petersalebooks.com
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