"Haitian Divers Hope to Aid Ailing Reef"

Newly trained Haitian divers hope to survey and one day help save Haiti's endangered coral reef with the team that taught them how to swim. Haiti's Coral reed is in a disastrous condition thanks to climate change, sedimentation but most of all, over fishing. Haitian fisherman were once able to catch larger predator fish,but after the fishes dwindling numbers had to move onto smaller herbivore fish.. Soon after the numbers of the herbivore fish dropped, algae and other plant life, that were once eaten by those fish, ran rampant and killed off 85% of the Coral. Thanks to the low amount of aquatic life now in the reef ,fisherman are catching less and less fish. Many of the volunteers to help survey and count fish, did not know how to swim and had to be trainer by the team. For many, the swimming and exploring of the reef is like exploring a whole new world that they previously did not know was so extensive and beautiful, and even proves to be very helpful in helping loosing some stress the earth quake left behind. In my opinion , helping to get the coral reef back to its original, thriving state would benefit not only the fisherman but many of the Haitian Divers.