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Tollie:It was very dramatic. Some of the older hands here had seen this before but it was a shocker to me.
I’d like to be flip and say that well wreck diving is really cool or some such thing. The truth is that it horrified me. I can only hope that it is part of some long cycle natural process.
Yes, it has been noted, and it is cyclic.
I have seen it come and go, but I am certain only that I have never seen any reef get better and more florid overall. It is a steady decline. I absolutely attribute this to siltation from run-off... man turning the soil and it washing seaward.
I also hear posters bemoan the end of the reefs when hurricanes smash through. But I know and have seen the long term truth. It is a natural process.
Long after the earth shakes us off her back, and she will- the reefs will return to their natural state. We are merely a blip on the screen.
The Earth is not in stasis. She is on an evolutionary path, cooling down, trying to attain and reach that stasis, trying to become absolutely round, wearing down mountains and making this planet a gooey mass of a muddy sphere.
Go and dive it, enjoy it for what it is.