From: Thomas mountain (thomascmountain@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Aug 28 2008 - 10:57:52 EDT
These days Massawa is much to hot for us, but the very heat itself has forced the sealife, especially the coral reefs, to adapt or die for the past millenia since the last ice age.
Coral reefs all over the world are feeling the effects of the solar driven warming trend (notice how i am not a believer in the so called global warming caused by carbon emmissions hysteria sweeping the world, and funded, in large part, by the nuclear energy junta).
Coral reefs in Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the largest tropical coral reef complex in the world, are dying at an alarming rate. Everywhere from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Island in the West Indies to the Sechelles in the Indian Ocean all the way to the North West Hawaiian Islands in the Northern Pacific are seeing alarming rates of coral "bleaching", the warm water driven killing off of the micro-organisms that form coral reefs.
In general, most tropical coral reefs can only withstand water temperatures of 25-27c. The Massawa-Dahlak reefs in Eritrea can tolerate temperatures of up 33c+.
What this means is that as the times grow hotter, Eritrea will gradually become one of the only places left where a vibrant coral reef complex will continue to thrive. Coral reef experts have been visiting and talking about using our corals to replant the worlds coral reefs.
The BBC/Discovery team spent weeks last March delving into the wonders of the Dahlak Archipelago and should be airing their special in Dec or January.
Another stark example of how Eritrea holds the future of the world in our hands.
Now all i need is a sailboat big enough to explore all the Dahlak archipelago in safety and comfort. Maybe than I can begin to search out the thousands of shipwrecks going back thousands of years to the days of the Egyptian Pharoahs, sent to bring back the ebony and ivory, the gold and white gold, salt, and most sacred and awe inspiring, etan, frankensense and myrrh, without which the Pharoahs of Egypt could not enter the afterlife...
Until next time,
a view from Asmara, shukar, shukar Asmara,
tom
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