Why is the belize barrier reef in danger
Danger to the Belize Barrier Reef
the 200-feet vessel named Samadhi the
true anchor on the Belize Barrier Reef
has absconded the line Belize and has
made it sweep to Honduras on Sunday
February 9 localism divers as well as
tourists on various dive expeditions
were astonished and in this me to see
the huge vessel had anchored inside
popular dive site known as the aquarium
situated at Long Key inside the
Lighthouse Reef atoll the huge anchor
holding the 1036 ton vessel was attached
to over a hundred feet of chain that was
observed dragging and breaking the
beautiful coral reef formation the shank
of the anchor at the Fluke stock rung
and triple ring was hooked to a patch of
life around the images of the dragon
chain shows part of the damages caused
so the popular dive destination by the
loser yet the yacht in question has 16
cabins and can hold 15 crew members and
12 guests it has an estimated cost of
the u.s. fifty million dollars an
internet document traces the owner to
Daniel set lobe of New York USA
according to lieutenant rocky Canole
Operations Manager at the Belize Coast
Guard they received information late on
Sunday evening and by the time they
arrived at the area it was learned that
the vessel had left from 6:00 p.m.
kunal indicated that information
gathered is that the vessel departed to
Honduras he did indicated that they are
currently working with their Honduras
come to part to see what can be done
Janell Chianina vice-president of Oceana
in Belize said that the government of
Belize should impose penalties on
whoever posed the damages and
destruction of the reef and further
calls on a government to put in place
stringent policies to ensure that such
destructive occurrences does not repeat
itself footage seeing
the the chain and the anchor we can't
believe that that not only that it was
done but then that it was subsequently
pulled open and the boat just left
Malaysian waters we certainly join
wholeheartedly the call by the
government of Belize that that company
means to take responsibility for its
actions immediately and once the
assessment has been completed that that
company should pay our fines and levies
because of this incident it's just
horrendous to look at our marine
resources so we certainly echoed that
call underlined it bolded they need to
take responsibility in every way shape
and form for for what they have done so
we understand I mean several tour guides
and shop owners have contacted on saying
you know this kind of thing happens all
the time but they were I guess looking
at the silver lining that here is very
clear evidence of what happened in this
instant and documented it in such a way
that it can be leveraged as evidence and
we we therefore look forward to
everything that anyone anywhere can do
to make sure that they are repercussions
for the people that that did this damage
and caused this destruction because it's
absolutely unacceptable
so whereas this may happen often it is
not often that we have hard evidence to
show exactly what was done I mean the
anchor was still connected to the vessel
so I believe investigations are underway
to review all the footage that may have
been captured and provide that so that
as part of the investigations the owners
can be identified and and brought to
bear the consequences of their actions
to safeguard Corral's mooring points
were installed many years ago to prevent
the need of dropping anchor and the
fragile ecosystem love news understand
the Department of Environment is
investigating the incident
all attempts to get comments from the
chief
our mental officer at the Department of
the Environment mr. Martin Alegria were
futile it is uncertain if other beliefs
and authorities will be working with any
international authorities to try to
bring sanctions on the captain and owner
of the yacht what is certain is that
divers were using the dive site on
Sunday indicated that the constant
drugging of the anchor caused serious
damages to that particular portion of
the reef reporting full of news from San
Pedro Tong am her hail Donna
