Diving Resistant to Change?

[JamesBon92007]

You mean there are actually two divers on this website that don't dive with a BP/W!!!! No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When I do use a BC, such as on dive boats, I use a BP/W

 

[kelemvor]

When I do use a BC, such as on dive boats, I use a BP/W

 

[drbill]

Only the sea, the eternal sea, has relentlessly remained the same...SDM 111

Ah, Sam, if only that were true. The eternal sea and its critters have sadly changed quite a bit (as you well know today)

 

[Sam Miller III]

Bill,
Sadly so true...
What once was is never no more
I authored that document of then and now 35 years ago....even then the ocean was effects of the impact of modern society.
Let us hope amd pray that some day we will not have Chizzo chemical disaster in US

SDM

 

[george_austin]

Is it me or has marine life become more and more scarce in the Southern California intertidal zones in the last 20-30 years?
I know our memories play tricks on us but there sure did seem like there was a lot more to look at in the misty days of yore.

Overfishing and coastal development I figure. We'd drift while freediving between Crystal Cove and Laguna back in the 60's and early 70's and there'd usually be free swimming octo's, Morays, little Blue Sharks and bottlenoses frequently. You just don't see that anymore.

 

[Sam Miller III]

@george_austin
"s it me or has marine life become more and more scarce in the Southern California intertidal zones in the last 20-30 years?
I know our memories play tricks on us but there sure did seem like there was a lot more to look at in the misty days of yore.

Overfishing and coastal development I figure. We'd drift while freediving between Crystal Cove and Laguna back in the 60's and early 70's and there'd usually be free swimming octo's, Morays, little Blue Sharks and bottlenoses frequently. You just don't see that anymore."
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Short answer --Yes
All you mention contribute to pollution ..
The exponential growth in population and water recreation activities are the culprits

I was forecasted in the 1950s by the Chizzo disaster which prompted a phrase Polluters Pay for Pollution aka "PPP"
We are now experiences the effects of PPP

SDM

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Is it me or has marine life become more and more scarce in the Southern California intertidal zones in the last 20-30 years?
I know our memories play tricks on us but there sure did seem like there was a lot more to look at in the misty days of yore.

Overfishing and coastal development I figure. We'd drift while freediving between Crystal Cove and Laguna back in the 60's and early 70's and there'd usually be free swimming octo's, Morays, little Blue Sharks and bottlenoses frequently. You just don't see that anymore.

It isn't just SoCal, and it doesn't need to go back that far. I've witnessed it just in the past dozen years, since I've been doing photography, here in Puget Sound. Dive sites where I once found multiple species of nudibranchs on every dive I now rarely find them ... and usually only a single species. And that's just one of many examples I could cite. Whether it's due to water temperature, stormwater runoff and erosion due to coastal development, pollution, or changes in salinity the reality is that our intertidal zones are changing rapidly ... if not dying out altogether. Those are nature's nurseries, and the kids are having a hard time growing up.

... Bob (Grateful Diver)