[Coral-List] Nohora Galvis <william.precht at gmail.com>

[Eugene Shinn]

The you tube sites provided by Joe Pawlik are most interesting. First he 
says coral demise began in the turks and Cacos in in the 1980 and 
continued into the 1990s. The peak of coral demise in the Florida Keys 
was 1983 (and continues today) which as we have pointed out numerous 
times was the peak year of African dust flux to the Keys. I don't need 
to remind the readers of all the microbes, toxic minerals and pesticides 
we identified in  the dust. It is interesting to see in the video what 
happened to reefs in the Turks and Cacos that are not adjacent to any 
land based sources off the same ingredients carried by African dust. 
Being closer to Africa it is reasonable that Turks and Cacos receives 
more dust than the Florida Keys.

The video also show the second wave of coral demise in the Turks and 
Cacos that is likely associated to what happend in the Florida Keys that 
many attributed to the deepening of the Government Cut ship channel at 
Miami. How many miles apart are they? and does the current flow from 
Miami to the Turks and Cacos? Gene