Last Saturday, a scubasurero team from the Carabao Dive Center went back to San Juan Reef to remove the ghost net that we discovered the previous day. We did two dives at the site, but we were only able to extract about 60% of the offensive fishing net.
Talking with fellow divers on the boat during our surface interval, some believed that the net was discarded on purpose. The reason: the net had no floaters attached to it, or lead weights. The was neither any rope still strung across its perimeter.
Please take a look at the pictures below (clicking on one will show a larger version), and please talk about this with your friends, family and colleagues. Help spread the word about how destructive ghost nets are underwater.
We’ll be back again this Wednesday to retrieve the rest of the ghost net from San Juan Reef.
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- Unsightly
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- Offensive
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- Depressing
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- Table coral
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- Table coral
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- Delicate coral
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- Staghorn coral
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- Stalked sea squirt
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- Tube coral
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- Divaricata coral
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- Humilis acropora
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- Fire coral
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- Hopeless
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- East
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- Blogie
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- Carefully now…
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- Clean-up
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- Scubasurero
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- Freeing a crab
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- Blogie
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- Jun Laud
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- Stargazing no more
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- Whitemargin stargazer
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- Floral wrasse
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- Three-spot squirrelfish
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- Orangetail filefish
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- Dehaan’s sponge crab
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- Squat lobster
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- Caught
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- Sabre squirrelfish
Photos and video by Christian Te. Thanks to WhatsThatFish.com for identifying the poor undersea victims for me.
Good job Blogie, i started underwater-photography because of dynamic fishing practice in Malaysia, now i can see the NEXT generation fighter like you fighting for our Coral reef! Keep it up, will support your good job!
Thanks, Shauming! :)