You certainly have.
jepuskar, is there some reason you couldn't just post in your thread from 3 years ago on this very topic for an update?
Cozumel damage after the hurricane
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jepuskar, is there some reason you couldn't just post in your thread from 3 years ago on this very topic for an update?
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The Rip Van Winkle of the Cozumel board.
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So I take it the reefs haven't recovered?
Assuming that your comment was serious...
Reefs never "recover", as in returning to exactly the way they looked before an incident, whether it be a hurricane, a collision by a ship, a change in water temperature, a coral blight, or whatever. The processes involved in the development of a reef system continue, and where they take the appearance of the reef depends on the conditions that influence those processes, which are always changing. Some of the changes wrought by Hurricane Wilma (assuming that that damage is what your comment is addressing) are permanent and some are temporary, and there is a lot of variation in the time scales involved with the different aspects of "recovery" from the temporary changes.
All I can say is that after nearly 30 years of diving Cozumel at least once a year (except the pandemic year 2020), I still find the diving at Cozumel excellent. It is different to some degree every time I go there because change is constant, and hurricanes are part of the process, but the general conditions that enabled the development of the reef system that we know and love are still in place.
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