I used to dive out there in the 80s and it was starting to die.I always thought it was from the chlorine runoff from the hotel swimming pool or there's something that drains into the stream near the hotel from a house.
It is too bad that there seems to be no video of the Kauai reefs back when they were healthy...I'm curious if they ever appeared as thickly covered with live corals as the reefs off Kona? if so, is this what Kona would look like in the future?
The bacteria and algae do not kill the coral, the high nutrient levels kill the work. Algae is only capable of growing in high nutrient rich waters, also algae will only grow on coral that is dying from high nutrient waters. The high levels of nutrients is what kills the coral and feeds the algae and bacteria. All of this is constantly demonstrated in home salt water aquariums that house SPS. This isn't rocket science and it very disturbing that people want to spend millions on research instead of taking appropriate actions What Hawaii needs is accountability, stop dumping wast production into your waters, stop allowing neighboring islands to dumps waster products into the water, stop ships from dumping waster products in the water Being located to a massive plastic island isn't helping either
I did my student teaching in Koloa in 1976. I snorkeled nearly every day in many spots near Poipu. When I came back in 1987 it seemed those same reefs didn't have the color they once had. Am now having second thoughts about returning to Kauai in 2018. What are your observations in Poipu? I'm guessing it's the same story? Thank you for the work you're doing. I love Hawaii, but after loads of snorkeling in Bay Islands, Roatan and Utila, in the Caribbean off the coast of Honduras, even the best snorkeling I've done in the Hawaiian Islands (Kealakekua Monument and Two Step on Big Island) doesn't compare, I'm sorry to say. Swim out a couple hundred yards in Roatan in calm seas, and have miles of multicolored reef, and not see another snorkeler. But it's a third world country with no-see-ums that seem to seriously mess with 25% of the people who visit.
I used to dive out there in the 80s and it was starting to die.I always thought it was from the chlorine runoff from the hotel swimming pool or there's something that drains into the stream near the hotel from a house.
It is too bad that there seems to be no video of the Kauai reefs back when they were healthy...I'm curious if they ever appeared as thickly covered with live corals as the reefs off Kona? if so, is this what Kona would look like in the future?
The bacteria and algae do not kill the coral, the high nutrient levels kill the work. Algae is only capable of growing in high nutrient rich waters, also algae will only grow on coral that is dying from high nutrient waters. The high levels of nutrients is what kills the coral and feeds the algae and bacteria.
All of this is constantly demonstrated in home salt water aquariums that house SPS. This isn't rocket science and it very disturbing that people want to spend millions on research instead of taking appropriate actions
What Hawaii needs is accountability, stop dumping wast production into your waters, stop allowing neighboring islands to dumps waster products into the water, stop ships from dumping waster products in the water
Being located to a massive plastic island isn't helping either
I did my student teaching in Koloa in 1976. I snorkeled nearly every day in many spots near Poipu. When I came back in 1987 it seemed those same reefs didn't have the color they once had. Am now having second thoughts about returning to Kauai in 2018.
What are your observations in Poipu? I'm guessing it's the same story? Thank you for the work you're doing.
I love Hawaii, but after loads of snorkeling in Bay Islands, Roatan and Utila, in the Caribbean off the coast of Honduras, even the best snorkeling I've done in the Hawaiian Islands (Kealakekua Monument and Two Step on Big Island) doesn't compare, I'm sorry to say. Swim out a couple hundred yards in Roatan in calm seas, and have miles of multicolored reef, and not see another snorkeler. But it's a third world country with no-see-ums that seem to seriously mess with 25% of the people who visit.
nuclear waste from fukishima
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@@savagepaul- it is due to human waste coming out of the Hanalei Rivermouth.