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发表于 9-5-2009 21:54:45
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This year, this small south Pacific Nation set aside the world’s largest marine reserve, Phoenix Islands Protected Area, 158,000 square miles of diving bliss. Scientist believes this area has the most pristine reefs left in the world. They are confident that many of these reefs have had little to no impact from human interaction. One scientist stated that “It was the first time I had seen what the ocean may have been like thousands of years ago”. Huge schools of all types of tropical fish, sharks, manta’s, napoleon wrasse, turtles, etc can be seen on almost every dive. The reefs are absolutely pristine.
今年(应该是去年,因为这个帖子是2008的),这个太平洋小国划定了世界上最大的海洋保护区,Phoenix Islands 海洋保护区,158,000平方英里的潜水天堂。
科学家相信这个区域有世界上现存最多的原始珊瑚。这里的珊瑚几乎没有受人类活动的影响。
一位科学家说:“这是我第一次看到,这里的海洋就像几千年前的样子。”
在几乎每一次潜水中都可以看到大群大群的热带鱼、鲨鱼、Manta鳐、napoleon wrasse、海龟等等,珊瑚则绝对保持原貌。
So are you ready to plan your next trip? The downside for all of us is they are located 2,000 miles from Hawaii and 700 miles from the nearest airport. Luckily, part of Kiribati’s plan is to develop scuba diving tourism in the next few years.
http://www.phoenixislands.org/movie.html
So my question to the 100,000+ members of SB, what would you be willing to pay to see the ocean’s reefs and fauna the way they were thousands of years ago? I know that I am in. I might sell a nice car or more to get to go to a place to dive that I thought didn’t exist anymore in my life time.
Scubaboard的网友数量超过十万,我问你们一个问题:你愿意付钱去看保持几千年前原貌的珊瑚和海洋生物吗?我知道我一定会去。我可能会卖掉我心爱的汽车或者其他更多东西,去这个我以前认为在我有生之年都没有机会去的地方潜水。
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