[Coral-List] new book with lots of photos showing what the Caribbean was like

Fri May 5 10:35:50 UTC 2023

As part of this thread -

A reminder that there are YouTube videos of the reefs in the Florida Keys at Grecian Rocks and Dry Rocks from 1987 and from Cuba in the 1970s archived below, thanks to Dr. Vassil Zlatarski.

https://youtu.be/LIbmsHmuxWk
https://youtu.be/QV-XJZdPbk0
https://youtu.be/DMa-82-bIwU

The Florida Keys videos are particularly interesting because the narration mentions that coral diseases have been seen and questions what the future may hold for the vibrant reefs recorded in the footage.

I would encourage anyone who posts coral reef video to internet sites to include as much information on location and time of recording as possible as these posts may become valuable data for future research.

Regards,

Joe

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From: Coral-List <coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> on behalf of Charles Delbeek via Coral-List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
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To: Douglas Fenner <douglasfennertassi at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Coral-List] new book with lots of photos showing what the Caribbean was like

[This email originated from outside of UNCW]

Like many on this list, I dove the Keys from 1972- 1977, and did one dive
in 1992 off of Islamorada, big difference even then by 1992. I dove Bonaire
in 1976 and Curacao in 2013 for the first time. I am sure there have been
changes between the two since then. Back in 1976 they said that the reefs
and viz on the north part of Bonaire were not as pristine due the
construction of an oil refinery in that area a few years prior to that, and
the dredging to build a new pier in Kralendijk impacted some of the down
current reefs in the south. The windward reefs were still pristine but I am
sure to anyone who dove there in the early 60s it would look impacted ...
shifting baselines as work even back then.

Best regards,

*J. Charles Delbeek, M.Sc.*
Curator of Aquarium Projects, Steinhart Aquarium
California Academy of Sciences
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On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 12:04 PM Douglas Fenner via Coral-List <
coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:

> The Caribbean Coral Reef, a record of an ecosystem under threat
> by William Sacco
>
> Photos of the reefs in Jamaica, Panama, and Curacao in the 1970's.  It is
> extremely important for us to know what reefs were like before they
> degraded, so we know what we have lost.  It is way too easy to have
> "shifting baselines," thinking that the way we first saw reefs is the way
> they always were.
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