⚠️IMPORTANT WARNING FOR ALL DIVERS ⚠️ Fast-spreading lethal disease (potentially SCTLD) has reached Bonaire’s reefs.

[tursiops]

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IMPORTANT WARNING FOR ALL DIVERS

A fast-spreading lethal disease (potentially SCTLD) has reached Bonaire’s reefs. Our primary focus is to limit the spread of this disease and minimize the damage as much and as quickly as possible.

ALL divers, please abide by the following:

Decontaminate all gear BEFORE, BETWEEN, and AFTER every dive. Proper decontamination protocol: https://bit.ly/3KdjD50

Dive within areas of same concern – do NOT move between areas of different concern within the same day. This map by STINAPA shows areas where the disease is actively spreading, areas where caution is advised, and areas of no concern. Divers are encouraged to dive in the green zone ONLY – but if you have to travel between areas of different concern levels, please be extra stringent when disinfecting your gear.

Practice perfect buoyancy – it’s more important than ever before to avoid touching anything.
Please refer to this updated STINAPA map: https://arcg.is/0Dbf0u1
We are asking for the collaboration of ALL divers in the face of this disease - only together, we can limit the spread and the impact it has on Bonaire’s coral reefs.

First discussed here on SB a week ago....https://scubaboard.com/community/threads/fast-moving-coral-disease-alert-on-bonaire.631586/post-9939325.

 

[scubadada]

Also, see Fast Moving Coral Disease Alert on Bonaire Posted March 24, the day the Info Bonaire was published.

Edit, as usual, @tursiops beat me by mere seconds

 

[Kimela]

If you actually read the article "cruise ship poop" isn't mentioned. It's ballast water that's suspected, and that's cargo ships. The article was actually amended at one point to remove "waste water" from the title.

Now back to your regularly-scheduled cruise-ship bashing.

Do cruise ships also utilize ballast water?

 

[OMyMyOHellYes]

I was there in November 2022 and there were plenty of cruise ships making stops. It is not like cruise ships just started returning to Bonaire in Feb/Mar 2023.

I was there in Novembre 2021 and there were unsightly crisis ships making daily stops even then.

(Now a couple of them were REALLY cool 4+ masted sailing ships and that was cool as frack to see!)

 

[OMyMyOHellYes]

I was there in Novembre 2021 and there were unsightly crisis ships making daily stops even then.

(Now a couple of them were REALLY cool 4+ masted sailing ships and that was cool as frack to see!)

I didn't type "crisis" it was some strange auto correct to some fornicated version of "cruise" but it's apt so I'm leaving it.

 

[Jake 10]

You are espreading rumors, here and on Facebook.

I am asking a question, hint the ? sign
\Because I seriously worry about the effect of SCTLD on any coral reef around the world. I like debates, not confrontation or txt fight among user/divers which has become very common in SB the last few months, and the main reason why so many great members have left the board.

Also, ,I will be there in July and don't want to find myself stranded on the beach after paying $$$$$ and not be able to shore dive

 

[Jake 10]

thank you

First discussed here on SB a week ago....https://scubaboard.com/community/threads/fast-moving-coral-disease-alert-on-bonaire.631586/post-9939325.

thank you very much for the link. I was unaware this was posted earlier in the week

 

[Jake 10]

Also, see Fast Moving Coral Disease Alert on Bonaire Posted March 24, the day the Info Bonaire was published.

Edit, as usual, @tursiops beat me by mere seconds

Thank you very much @scubadada for the link.

 

[Eric802]

Do cruise ships also utilize ballast water?

I'm not going to pretend to know that 100%. My impression was that they don't, and I would feel pretty confident saying they certainly don't use it to the extent that cargo ships do - cruise ships are pretty consistently weighted, whereas cargo ship drafts can vary widely based on how they're loaded.

Regardless, logically the spread can't be solely blamed on cruise ships, because it's been spreading to areas where cruise ships don't go, and was spreading while that industry was shut down. And ballast water on cargo ships is a well-known vector for spreading nasties around.

 

[Jake 10]

Update : just received a response from Amiee at STINAPA Bonaire . It helps clarify some of the concerns previously presented.