[Coral-List] Getting old is no fun.

[Charles Delbeek]

Sadly that is a common occurrence, and not just with reefs.


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On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 9:43 AM John Ware <jware at erols.com> wrote:

> 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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