Fukushima and The Pacific ☢ Survey Reef Dive 04-20-16 - Kahekili Beach Park, Maui
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"Pacific Ocean and effects from Fukushima". Shore Diving on 04-20-16, at the reef just off of Kahekili Beach Park on Maui. Recording changes in the amount of sea life and overall health of this coral reef over the next 5 to 10 years. Depth between 15 - 30 feet. I have seen this reef much more lively then this in years past! Here is the GoPro video. "What's Fukushima?"
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The few remaining fish look as if they are just caretaking an empty place. Which it must be, as all the tiny animals ie Bryozoans that built and inhabited the coral are gone, they were 'the colour'. I don't concur with the term 'bleaching', coral itself always would be white etc and I can assume the inhabitants of the coral will never be back. As with starving marine mammals etc I assume the lower food tier ie plankton and much of it microscopic (diatoms etc) has gone. Its ocean plankton that captures CO2 and releases oxygen. It was only in the 1970's James Lovelock discovered the gas DMS that is produced by plankton and is instrumental in controlling ocean weather systems, cloud formation.
Its difficult to find newer material to read for the latest findings, I often seek text as often it allows me to get to the message quicker, its always busy here, time limited. Its only recently I'm ashamed to say I woke up to the environmental catastrophe that is enveloping the planet; trump and Pruitt need to be relieved of their jobs, their destruction of the EPA is a crime against Humanity (and all living things).
If you have video of before 3/11/2011, you should do a before and after video.
Have killed us all it would appear...
10. comment for Fukushima and The Pacific ☢ Survey Reef Dive 04-20-16 - Kahekili Beach Park, Maui
Fukushima is definitely causing some massive damage to our oceans. Here in CA our beaches are washing up star fish that have a gelatinous fall apart disease plaguing them. also CA fisheries have put a complete stop to our rock crab fishing and salmon in the pacific northwest is at all time low. this a sign of things to come if we cant locate the molten cores of reactors 1-3 and put them in a concrete coffin, reactor 4 blew up a week after 3/11/11.
tepco has been pumping sea water into the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant via fire hoses. This run off is collected as best as they can and stored in huge tanks at adjacent sites, the rest washes right into Pacific Ocean. these tanks have been leaking since they started using them and with their recent quakes it has no doubt caused even more damage. Point being, hawaii is probly gettin fucked in more ways than jus bleached coral.
FYI Chernobyl lasted 10 days....Fukushima never stopped. Cancer takes 10-15 yrs to develop, this is what Tepco and Nuclear power are counting on. In short, we should have evacuated pacific northwest the month this happened.
20. comment for Fukushima and The Pacific ☢ Survey Reef Dive 04-20-16 - Kahekili Beach Park, Maui
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Still, I hope you are enjoying being to those beautiful islands. You are brave. I'd love to go back, but, well...you know.
Disappear Plankton, Disappear Ocean Biology.
Starve, or Suffocate.