On Tue, 3 Oct 2000 00:58:57 -0400, Reef Fish wrote:

>On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 22:48:12 -0400, Krazy Kiwi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>Our Leeuwin Current is flowing so strongly tha tit has raised sea levels
>
>A careful reading that I am <BWG>, I can't help but picture some gigantic
>tit in a Woody Allen movie ... until you spoiled it. :-)

Awww shucks ... if I knew you were such an observer of TITillating convo I
would have mistyped on purpose yonks ago ;-))

>Thanks for a SCUBA post for some realty check.  :)

We've just had a newsflash on the radio that a shark giving birth off one
of our most popular swimming beaches has cleared the waters pretty fast.
Our anklebiters are in the 2nd week of their school holidays.

>>>Some of the benefits of this warmer water are:
>>* an expected boom for commercial fisheries, especially the rock
>>lobster business
>>* significant change in the tropical fauna
>>* coral reefs increasing in size & diversity
>
>* not to mention it's easier to remove a lycra skin or bikini bottom
>  than removing a thick wetsuit ... at 60 fsw ... when nature makes
>  an urgent call.  :-)  I won't repeat the story of an "advanced skill"
>  I performed (removing a skin UW, in current, when an urgent call
>  for number 2).

Go-on ... do tell us ;-))  Im sure Strike could work the *call of nature*
in to a scuba article somehow :-))
Bet there are lots of funny happenings UW that a lot of folk wont fess up
to ie caught out during an UW nookie <G>

>>During our last fishcount survey at Parker Point we noticed a
>>spectacular increase in tropical fish settling in this study area.
>>An increase of 50 per month several years ago to well over 2000 a
>>month now. The curator of fishes at the WA Museum believes that if
>>the trend of the past couple of years continues in 50 years time
>>the coral reefs around Rottnest could be almost as diverse as
>>those of the Abrolhos Islands off Geraldton.
>
>The past decade or so had some really severe cases of El Nin~o and El
>Nin~a, and in increasing frequencies, that I think the effect being
>observed is just part of this global pertubation -- hopefull for the
>better for scuba divers, in the LONG RUN!

Yeah, thats a good point! I would luv to see clownfish around Rottnest
Island. Interestingly enough we have had minimal coral bleaching on this
side of the island, considering how much coral we have. A particular type
of coral in the Rowley Shoals area was stressed out badly .. and small
parts of the Ningaloo Reef too ... but pretty minimal compared to the
amount of coral bleaching reported around the Maldives.

>>Fingers crossed our inter-tidal zone doesnt cool down. While many of
>>these tropical fish species can tolerate the harsher conditions & are
>>better suited for survival in the more temperate conditions around
>>Rottnest Is. I dont think I AM, especially during our winter season ;-)
>
>Don't people dive with bikini or naked in ice water, suitably trained?  :-)

Yeah sure! All the time mate, all the time ... we are amazons .. feel
nuffink ;-)
Viv