Comments on: Beautiful Oceans’ Top 10 Things You Can Do to Protect Coral Reefs Now On Club Med Insider!

By: Jan Ahlman

Jan Ahlman — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:01:31 +0000

Hello, we are meeting a lot of resistance to bringing SeaTrek to Ambergris Caye. Will you please provide me with any info possible to understand how we can provide this to tourists without damaging the ocean bottom?
thank you ,
Jan

By: Stephan

Stephan — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:46:27 +0000

Hi Jon - as with everything we do when visiting the oceans, it all depends on how we do it. In the case of Sea Trek underwater helmets, ill all depends on the guide: is the group of visitors led through an area of life coral - or are they walking on sand or any other form of ‘barren’ substrate? See, Scuba could be considered a potentially low impact activity as scuba divers are ‘floating’ through water - yet in reality, scuba divers touch, trample and otherwise negatively impact the environment - be it by the mere fact that you need a boat and fuel to get to the dive spot in the first place. So again, I think that it all depends on what we as humans do with new technology, new tools of exploring the underwater world - technology itself is not ‘good’ or ‘bad’. Just my five cents. Cheers, Stephan

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:57:07 +0000

This article involves doing what you can to protect reefs worldwide, and I would like to ask a question about an ongoing program that I feel is detrimental to the coral reef off Ambergris Caye, Belize

Sea Trek underwater helmet program lets users walk directly on the seafloor, crushing potential organisms and stirring up sediment which can find its way onto the coral (sediment loading). The proposed site is at Mexico Rocks and people would be walking on the ground just feet from coral heads.

What are your opinions on this? Personally, I think it is a terrible idea to put even more sediment into the water column which could eventually harm the local species of coral.

Thank you for your time, any insight would be helpful.

By: Taylah Mong

Taylah Mong — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:59:12 +0000

I love corral reefs they are so beautiful and its so sad to see it be threated by US!! its so upsetting knowing that us humans are coursing alot of these problems, but then again it good knowing that there are people out there doing things like this to try and help the coral reefs. keep it up :) xxx

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