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Old 03-14-2017, 06:21 PM
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Default Cruise ship destroys reef

Tony posted this on FB a few days ago, and here is new story for those who may have missed it. It's a damn tragedy and the owner better be forced to pay.
Cruise ship crash causes more than $18M in damage to pristine Indonesian reef, experts say
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Old 03-14-2017, 07:34 PM
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Interesting someone could put a price tag on that.
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Very disheartening.

I am curious how compensation would work on something like this. Even they did pay something, how does that work towards recovery? Is it better to leave this to nature to recover on its own, or should there be remedial/coral planting efforts to reclaim the damaged areas? I suppose that comes with its own set of questions too...
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There goes a beautiful Reef for divers across the world. The worst part is the article speculates that they didn't have the required authorization to be in that area. That alone calls for negligence on th company's part.
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Here is a BBC story with a video showing whats left of the reef:
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And the cruise ship company calls it an "unfortunate incident". Grrrr. Understatement much?

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😱 am planning a trip to Raja Ampat reefs in November, the reef area destroyed reported at 145,000 square miles is impossible - 100 x 1500 miles - the correct unit should be square feet - yeesh, FoxNews 😏
JakartaPost states 13,000 square meters - still, an outrageous crime against nature.
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for two years 24/7 the chinese have been openly destroying coral reefs:

https://youtu.be/hohzrU86RU0

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35106631
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That's enough to make you feel sick!
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what gong show!!
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IMO:

- as long there is a demand there will be a supply -- at any cost
- weve been terraforming the land, and now weve turned to mariforming
- with 8,000,000,000 people wanting to live like Canadians and Americans the anthropecene age will be short lived anyway 💣 💀

- we exceeded the carring capacity of our planet in the 1930's
- after years of living dangerously, were all now just swirling around the drain
- the organic unity of mankind is the culmination of human evolution - yay, now lets go and make more n more n more babies 👶👶🏻👶🏼👶🏾👶🏿⤴️

I have no clue how all of this is going to end, but ill be happy if Noah has 2 of every fish, and a bunch of frags on board 😁
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