A Search Thousands of Feet Underwater
Locating the black boxes of Air France Flight 447 is not easy: The plane fell hundreds of miles away from any coast, in an area where ocean depths vary from 2,800 to 15,000 feet. To make matters worse, pinging signals emitted by the data boxes are expected to stop in less than two weeks.
And nobody knows if the boxes have been damaged in the crash, which could make recovery impossible.
Caught Up Technical Diving
Fish nets caught on dive sites are increasingly becoming a major issue. For years divers have been aware of these issues and even the fishing men themselves know there is a dive site in the area and still somehow catch their nets on wrecks or pinnacles. The most concerning aspect beyond the environmental impact is the risk of entanglement to less experienced divers who might want to “pitch in” and it’s a terrible eye sore for the biggest diving certification destination in south east asia.
Today Cory Lewis and James Thornton-Allan went for some fun technical diving at a relatively shallow dive site called “South West Pinnacles” and ventured to the “secret pinnacle” where the most preserved and pristine soft coral and marine life are. It was supposed to be some simple fish watching but as the divers arrived at the secret pinnacle it was covered in a fine plastic fishing net with several species of marine life trapped alive amongst decaying less fortunate fish.
We’re not particularly against fishing, everyone understands that commercial fishing is an important role and industry around the world, however these fish we’re trapped and dying slowly and would attract larger marine life to get trapped in the same way.
As we started to remove the net, slowly trying to not get entangled and at the same time to not damage the coral the net clung to, we found about 6 scorpion fish (poisionous), baner fish, damsel fish, angel fish and the rest of nemo’s friends. We we’re able to remove wat was alive and wouldn’t kill us and removed the entire next that stretched well over 100m
On the topic of fishing is a new movie, much like all the recent environmental documentaries, this one focuses on commercial fishing call the End of the Line which should help to improve general education of commercial fishing and the impact of fish lines.
Thankfully the dive site has been returned to it’s normal condition even if took dives 50 minutes and a bit of decompression to clear it.
