Editorial

Staff · Issue 106, Jan/Feb 2019 · pp. 4

Products mentioned: Nikon full frame mirrorless, Canon full frame mirrorless, Nauticam underwater lenses, Nikonos, Nikonos RS

Editorial Plastic response Dear Peter I read your words in your recent issue of the UwP magazine about plastic pollution, and it is a subject close to my heart, in that on all my recent (over last three or four years) dive trips to Asia, including Tanzania, Philippines, Indonesia (Bali) I have witnessed the most dreadful pollution of the once beautiful and pristine seas by plastic of all kinds, both floating on the surface and on the sea bed. Likewise the use of dynamite for fishing along all the coasts where there are human populations is more and more evident with a dearth of fish life where once the reefs were teaming with life. What the solution is or can be is difficult to say, as there are no waste collection procedures in the small towns along Asia’s coasts, and the growing population has to feed itself, with no work available in so many places. Having dived in Asia since the mid …