[Coral-List] Fwd: Re: Reassessing Coral Reefs
John Ware
jware at erols.com
Thu Apr 2 11:41:53 EDT 2015
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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>
Hi List,
As an anecdotal addition to Peter's comments:
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.
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.
Depends on your perspective.
John
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
>
>
> sale at uwindsor.ca @PeterSale3
> www.uwindsor.ca/sale www.petersalebooks.com
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