Using fewer household chemicals, especially on your lawn and garden, can help prevent marine pollution. It is also benficial to support reef-friendly businesses, such as snorkel or dive operations that take steps to avoid damage to the reefs. Always check that the anchor is well secured in the sand before diving on the reef. Even experienced divers have at some time in their life accidentally bumped or broken coral, so the inexperienced should be particularly careful . A careless mistake could wipe out a whole community.
Coral reefs are the essential breath for a vast and still unknown marine life.
The zoothanthellae which live in the coral, provides the essential oxygen for the coral to live and proliferate. Without the algae, the reef would not grow and without the coral a score of marine organisms would not exist. When coral reefs are foolishly destroyed by the use of chlorine bleach or other deadly chemicals for fishing practices, this kills the algae and corals. When you destroy the coral, you strangle the marine life of its breath and deprive our future children of nourishment from the sea. All rights reserved.