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| | _________ |  Despite Sudan's ongoing civil war, clumsy tourism by untrained divers continues to damage its Sha'ab Rumi and Sanganeb reefs, among the richest in the Red Sea. A London Times reporter in April 1997 filed this lament: "Corals were being hung on to and dislodged in the strong currents, fragile staghorn and fire corals were being broken into pieces by careless fin kicks or being landed on as a result of poor buoyancy control. A diver was seen to sit on a large brain coral to pose for the camera. Photographers regularly sit, lie or kneel on corals while taking photographs. In one case I observed a pair of divers remove large chunks of the reef to get a closer view of a moray eel hiding in a crevice, only to find the eel swim off in a panic. Much worse: at the Cousteau Precontinant II study area, on Sha'ab Rumi reef, many of the corals are dead. Some of the extremely large table corals...stand now as great, lifeless skeletons." | ||
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