Showing posts with label Andamans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Andamans. Show all posts

March 2011 Andamans

Diving with Barefoot Scuba’s newly certified PADI instructor Martina, visiting three dive sites: Johnny’s Gorge, The Wall and Aquarium, and floating over desolate coral cemeteries in this previously pristine marine environment, witnessing at first hand the worst coral die-off that I have ever seen, driven by human-induced global warming and the second wave of El Nino (after 1998) and learning that the sea-surface temperature had risen by almost 5 degrees only ten months before (from a long-term average of 28°C to a peak of 33°C) which changed a once colourful u/w world into a monochromatic tristesse...


giant moray eel, andaman sea, india, el nino

goatfish, andaman sea, el nino, india, havelock

moorish idol, barrel sponge, andaman sea, india, havelock