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Sailing The Sea Of Stones

submitted by newtboy

4 years 8 months ago

On August 9, 2019 a couple sailed through a pumice field for 6-8 hours, much of the time there was no visible water. It was like ploughing through a field. They estimated the pumice was at least 6” thick.
The raft of rock, the size of 20,000 football fields is floating towards Queensland. The pumice was created when an underwater volcano erupted off Tonga. Scientists say it'll bring millions of new coral to the Great Barrier Reef.
Video footage starts at :50

7 Comments

00Scud00 says...

Looks like a sea of wet concrete, better hope it keeps moving.

cloudballoon says...

Reading that last sentence.... so it's a good thing right?

Reading closely, it has the potential to be beneficial in certain ways, but there's no guarantee any of the infant coral it brings will be able to establish themselves.

I keep wondering what it's going to do to beach ecosystems in the area. I'm sure it's going to be bad for tourism, and could be horrible for fish. I hope someone is studying what it's done to the ocean chemistry.

cloudballoonsaid:

Reading that last sentence.... so it's a good thing right?

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cloudballoon says...

I think we humans can afford a few beach destinations for a couple of years to help out the GBR, especially considering the dire state the GBR is in now.

Reading from Wiki, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumice, it is not harmful to the fishies and even got lots of commercial value to it.

Reading closely, it has the potential to be beneficial in certain ways, but there's no guarantee any of the infant coral it brings will be able to establish themselves.

I keep wondering what it's going to do to beach ecosystems in the area. I'm sure it's going to be bad for tourism, and could be horrible for fish. I hope someone is studying what it's done to the ocean chemistry.

Our government doesn't give a flying fuck about the GBR or the environment in general as evidenced by all the GBR scandals and the Adani mine.
To use an Aussie expression "It's fuckin fucked mate"

6" of the gelcoat on that boat is gone...

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