Coral Reef Adventure Page #3

we set quest to another island

there we joined up with John Michealgusto

who is the son of the legendary explorer

John Michealgusto comes to Fuji every year

to help marine biologists

like marine's world read records

we guild Howard and Michael to a nearby reef

where siltation is not a problem

thanks to mangrove trees

their roots traps the silt

protecting the reefs

many fish sees mangroves as nursery

to protect the young

my fellow Fijians

have set aside this beneficial as mangroves

as part of marine preserve

making the reef offshore a wonder land

healthy beautiful and strong

this is the way I want my reef to be

tropical coral reefs are found worldwide

Fuji is the soft coral capital of the world

corals are beautiful

but they are also beneficial

chemical components from coral reefs

have been reproduced in the lab

to provide relief from pain

ease child birth

and even extend the life of AIDS patients

corals share their foods

in fact many of them share the same stomach

when the current fix up speed

time lap photographs shows

how these soft corals inflate like balloons

to trap passing animals

on a healthy reef like this

you see so many different creatures

we preferred not to approach these animals

it's better of they come to us

this distant cousin of the cobra

can kill a person in a matter of minutes

but they rarely bite humans

Michael is counting on that

we learned a lot of our reef from its animals

and so do the children

there is more to the reef than meets the eyes

observation is the first step in science

who would notice

that yellow fish got their tiny eggs

before they hatch

all that the sea cucumber eat the waste

leaving the reef clean up for all

some of the finest marine biologists are Fijians

we could expect scientists mixed

we've learned that we don't inherit the earth

from our parents

we borrow it from our children

children love this spot fish they've never seen before

that same discovery drives many scientist

like Richard Pile

Richard Pile calls himself a fishman

he study fish on the deepest parts of coral reefs

the deeper down we go on the coral reef

the less we know

I want to find out who lives there

you can't get a true picture of coral reef

if you only look at part of it

but deep dives could be really dangerous

even using a special breathing devises

we could still get a fatal disease

called "the bangs"

we nearly lost Howard on a deep dive

only two months ago

ha had a bad case of "the bangs"

it could have killed him

to stop the progression of the illness

I began breathing pure oxygen

but it didn't seen to help

I was losing all the feelings in my right legs

one of the terrify moment for me

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