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30/01/2007: "HARD CORALS ....... safe from bleaching"
Hundreds of kilometers of healthy reef – tourists won’t get to see any of this due to constant rough conditions.
Deep, cool waters with no chance of coral bleaching.
Charter boats only visit sheltered regions of coral reefs.
This weather-side of the outer edge of the vast chain of separate – separate to each other - is the Great Barrier Reef (s).
It is a wonderland I unfortunately have rarely explored.
A bit hazardous for groups of more than half a dozen people in the water at any time.
Currents, deep water and almost anything that swims will be there.
Plus a big surf breaking on the shallow reef area and a long trip back to home base are all part of the problem the divemaster has to consider.
Far easier to dive on a bommie in the lagoon. Which is why the weather-side remains a frontier of the reef.
Jan 31. "I noted the report on the GBR in yesterday’s press. There a quite a few scientists who would go along with that idea – and there are many scientists who get research funds because of notions of global warming. I note that Jennifer Marohasy has criticised the idea of the demise of the GBR in today’s Australian, pointing out that the GBR may simply extend further south as the oceans warm up". (1whoknows)
