HelifaxNZ Posted March 16, 2006 Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 Found this article on the Xtra site. http://xtramsn.co.nz/travel/0,,12734-5529066,00.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostface Posted March 16, 2006 Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 "We lost 90 percent of them in 1998 and the little that was left is recovering slowly and is apparently under frequent threat." dam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HelifaxNZ Posted March 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 Yeah, 90% is a huge percentage! I just can't visage this amount of dead corals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie extreme Posted March 16, 2006 Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 i was living in the maldives (veligandu island, north rashdoo, aari atoll) in 1998/99 and would say that 90% is a bit over the top. maybe in certain locations. true is that lots of corals were dead by the time i arrived. sad part was that most tourists went "oh look at the beautiful white corals aren't they pretty" until they got told the corals were dead hence the white colour. but in saying that this was only in the top 3-5 meters and mainly in the inner lagoon. the outer reef with a lot deeper water and heaps more water flow didn't seem to be affected much. but like i said this could be different from location to location. if anybody around akl is interrested to have a look at the under water pic' i took they more then welcome. the other thing i did notice was the speed that new small acro colonies pop up everywhere. (mortality on those was quite high IMO at about 50% but i couldn't comment if this is the norm). it was acro's that suffered the highest mortillity overall. the diving was still awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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