Photos: Conservation

While some of the villages we visited protected their local reefs in exchange for things like proper water wells and schools, most did not. We found an abandoned gill net deep on one dive, and ended up spending much of the dive cutting it loose and floating it to the surface. The gill net had remnants of a sea turtle in it (a flipper), who might have torn off its own limb in its efforts to get away.

We also frequently came across rubble patches that were the result of bomb fishing.