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Archive for February, 2011
This is The Solomon Islands where a gentle drift dive is possible at Uepi Island Resort.
We need to find something similar in Taiwan. Water depth less than 100 feet. Visibility greater than 100 feet of horizontal vision. Warm clear water.
Orchid Island probably has a good potential. Green Island possibly.
We know there is an east coast current running south. Offshore there is blue water. Perhaps to the north of Taiwan there are good conditions – that is good visibility before the fresh water flowing down the mountains clouds vision with silt.
International underwater photographers are now keen to see blue water marine species. Mako shark, giant tuna, dolphin.
Wealthy spear fishermen who seek big fish from blue and crystal clear ocean water. These guys are prepared to drift on the surface in bottomless conditions offshore, in the hope of encountering a giant fish.
In Australia we began our adventure diving with the help of professional fishermen who were prepared to take us offshore.
Perhaps the same can be achieved in Taiwan?
Professional fishing boats willing to take capable and world-class free divers in a search for underwater adventure with big fish.
These divers would pay toward the boat charter and give their fish away, possibly for free.
Blue water free dive fishing does no harm to the coastal ecology.
Scuba divers on the other hand need different conditions as per the above picture of mine. Pristine reef conditions are not going to be easy to find around the small island of Taiwan. Perhaps the outlaying islands offer something?
This is the tourism of the future for Taiwan. Eco scuba diving.
A professional fisherman and good friend shows how he took the best cuts of fish from hundreds of tons of Coral Trout during his career hand line fishing in The Swain Reefs, (Tropic of Capricorn zone, east coast of Australia).
55% of each fish was ‘recovered’ the balance became food for other fish – which is not a bad thing.
Coral trout are not wasted like this in Taiwan. For a start the fish is used in soup where everything can be eaten.
In Australia most fish was eaten the English way, fried in an egg batter and served with chip potato (French fries).
Today people worry about shark fining and the waste that is involved by illegal fishermen (outside of Taiwan).
If they realized all the other waste still occurring they would be better informed to make judgments.
The current trend for what seems like instant action via a few mouse clicks falls a long way short of any real progress. Click and forget?
