Coral Reef Damage in Jamaica (fwd)

[Coral Health and Monitoring Program]

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Date: 29 Aug 1996 18:25:32 -0400 
From: "Deslarzes, Ken" <kdeslarzes at ocean.nos.noaa.gov> 
To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program <coral at aoml.noaa.gov> 
Subject: FW: Coral Reef Damage 

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From: Dodie Guffy on Thu, Aug 29, 1996 15:11 
Subject: Coral Reef Damage 


        Coral Reef Damage.  In mid-August 1996, Jamaica's Natural 
Resources Conservation Authority confirmed reports that a fiber optic cable 
had fallen across the popular Widow Makers Cave coral reef dive site and 
damaged coral.  Telecommunications of Jamaica, Ltd., agreed to move a 
section of their Cayman-Jamaica cable to a sand channel and avoid further 
contact with live coral formations. [Assoc Press] 

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