Best Scuba Diving in North America

[ScubaTexan]

sharky60,
is there a difference between geology and geography?
regards,

ummm.....yes......quite a bit of difference :icon_roll

 

[vertaqua]

thought I would share this web page...

Best Scuba Diving in North America

10. Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico
9. British Virgin Islands
8. Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
7. U.S. Virgin Islands
6. Florida Keys
5. Turks & Caicos
4. Maui, Hawaii
3. The Bahamas
2. Belize
1. Grand Cayman

http://travel.discovery.com/fansites/worldsbest/scuba/scuba.html

What the discovery channel probably did to generate this list of dive locations was flip through the latest Rodales Scuba Diving and picked out the first ten ads for dive resorts and then wrote up a small piece on each one(probably copied and pasted from the given areas tourism board website).

 

[sharky60]

sharky60,
is there a difference between geology and geography?
regards,

maybe splitting hairs a little. just depends on your interpretation of the definition I guess

ge·ol·o·gy
n. pl. ge·ol·o·gies
1. The scientific study of the origin, history, and structure of the earth.
2. The structure of a specific region of the earth's crust.
3. A book on geology.
4. The scientific study of the origin, history, and structure of the solid matter of a
celestial body.



ge·og·ra·phy
n. pl. ge·og·ra·phies
1. The study of the earth and its features and of the distribution of life on the earth,
including human life and the effects of human activity.
2. The physical characteristics, especially the surface features, of an area.
3. A book on geography.
4. An ordered arrangement of constituent elements: charting a geography of the mind.

 

[RTRski]

and exactly why do they call it Greenland, anyway?

wouldn't it be more accurate to call it "Rockland" or "Barrenland"?

but then... who would move there?

...

Because, like many bodies of land, it was named long ago, when it WAS green. Not sure of the specifics, but we (as in "Man") screwed it up good. Been a while since I read the history, think it might've been part of the Viking migratory cycle. They used it to raise sheep and goats which, unfortunately, crop the grass down to and including the root, unlike other livestock. Meanwhile they lumbered the heck out of any forest cover for shelter, boats, firewood.... No grasslands/forests = no protection against erosion, and in only a couple of centuries or so all the topsoil went into the sea, leaving what we think of now as Greenland being kind of a mocking joke of a name.

Just goes to show "Modern" man doesn't have a corner on the screwing up the ecology of a given biozone. Heck, London almost strangled itself in coal-smoke during the dawn of the industrial revolution; their air was probably worse than in some of the smuttier cities (Los Angeles, etc.) in the U.S. at their worst. Primitive nations/groupings have done just as much damage to their own ecological surroundings out of ignorance. Its just now we've got bigger levers to break things with (but hopefully a bit more awareness of the possible pitfalls...whether we as a species have the intelligence/restraint to actually heed that awareness however is still up for debate).