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24/03/24

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Originally posted by Tarvold: ↑

This guy has obviously not actually been out to the reef.
I scuba the GBR off Cairns in 2002 doing my Open Water, visited exactly the same sections in 2013 for my Advanced Open Water.
The difference on the reefs visited were stark, some sections had zero living coral & the rest had a lot of dead coral covered in brown algae.

There are two main types of coral. One that takes approximately 5 years to recover from a bleaching event & another approximately 10 years.
The problem is that the bleaching events are occurring more frequently to such an extent that the 10 year corals are not recovering at all between events.
So even an apparently 'healthy reef' may have lost significant biodiversity.

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All that dead coral would be the stuff thats getting washed up onto the beaches to make the islands larger. Shame the idiots cannot figure that out as it's really not that hard. Or do they think it's all live coral and the beaches are all pretty colours after a storm?
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