For they show the much grimmer reality of clear blue seas increasingly choked by a tide of discarded plastic.
In one photograph taken near Roatan, an island off the coast of Honduras, a diver grimaces as he prepares to enter the water almost completely covered by waste.
Another, taken from below the waterline, shows plastic bottles, bags and other rubbish on the surface blocking out sunlight.
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Dave T: Utterly disgraceful !
ReplyDeleteI dove there before. Never experienced that. Very sad to see that.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a tree hugger but get disgusted with the way our people treat our planet.
Anyone think a third world country (and many of those islands have populations living in harsh poverty) is going to be "eco friendly"?
ReplyDeleteWhere are they going to put the tons and tons of trash created every day?
They'll do what poor people everywhere do --- throw in in the backyard, the river, the ditch, or the ocean.
And tourists don't care where the trash goes either.
Entropy. It's literally everywhere.
Anyone who has been to Roatan knows the whole island is just one big garbage pile.
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