Ecosurf a video recorded by a Canadian during diving in Costa Ricas coast shows the moment a streak-blanket gets in front of a diver and asks for him to remove her a piece of fishing net caught in your body. The image was made at the last day 4 September by the advertiser Tan 25 years of Monteiro, of Sao Paulo. The recording shows the Group during next expedition to the island preserved area of bat country of Central America. When they were 20 meters deep, the marine animal, which can reach eight feet wingspan and weigh two tons, approaching one of them. It is possible to observe a line attached at the front of the lane (fish of the order of batóideos which is also called Stingray). Monteiro, who dives for 13 years, claims that the moment was surreal. It was the first time I saw a streak-manta. There was a very deep interaction between her [the streak] and the diver. After the fishing net had been withdrawn, the animal was around the group for about 30 minutes, explained the Brazilian. According to him, the fishing net had about 1.5 cm in diameter and left wounds in the streak. Who had the responsibility to help the fish was the Canadian Brian Thompson. In an interview, he said he had the most striking encounter of your life. I felt a love so strong for her and joy of knowing that she was free and could enjoy life once again, he explains. Thompson, who is Director of engineering at a University in Oman, dives whenever he can. He says that during the trip through Costa Rica, helped two other specimens of rays that also had objects attached to your body. Rays-mantas are considered vulnerable animals in the wild, according to the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of nature (IUCN, in English). They are harmless to humans and have no sting, like other species of rays. Recording MARINE POLLUTION draws attention to a serious problem: the contamination of oceans and the impact of fishing. Even Costa Rica, a country that has become a world reference in environmental preservation, still unable to prevent fishing with trawls and even use of dynamite to catch tuna – fish that had a drastic reduction of its population in various parts of the globe. Monteiro said that the region where the diving is inside a national park. However, according to him, the area is not free of fishing activities, which leave traces how the pieces of the network that clamped to the rays. Another problem that has concerned scientists is the excessive plastic dump at sea. According to studies already published, up to 88% of the surface of the oceans of the world is contaminated with plastic waste that can severely impact marine life and the food chain. Mass produced for toys, bags, food packaging and utensils, plastic items arrive to the seas swept away by rainwater Researchers estimate that the total amount of plastic in the oceans of the world-between 10 thousand and 40 thousand tons. Source: (G1)Translated by Bing
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 05:11:16 +0000
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