[Coral-List] Getting old is no fun.

[John Ware]

Dear Peter and List,

Peter Sale's recent comment, extracted below:

"...that over the next decade or so, the world is going to lose a lot of coral reef scientists along with our memories of what reefs could be like in a Holocene ocean that no longer exists."

This reminded me of a recent trip my wife and I made to Curacao.  We have been diving ~40 years, maybe not long by the standards of many coral reef scientists, but long enough to have seen many changes to our reefs.

We were on a boat with quite a number of much younger divers (it seems everyone is much younger these days).  When we came up my wife's first comment was that "It was like diving on a cemetery!"  However, the younger divers were raving about the beautiful reef referring to algal-covered mounds that were once live coral.

John

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