Essay Structure

Introduction

Positives

- Conservation

• volunteers carrying out surveys
  http://www.coralcay.org/volunteer/montserrat/
• recreational divers trained to report sightings
  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2004.00015.x/abstract

http://www.mcsuk.org/press/view/21

 

- New species discovery

http://www.mcsuk.org/what_we_do/Wildlife%20protection/Conservation%20in%20action/MCS%20Seasearch%20divers%20discover%20new%20sponge%20species

- Tourism and Recreational diving – entrance fees and donations finance conservation

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X00000229

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0964569102000492

- Clean-ups after coastal management failures

http://www.projectbaseline.org/gulfstream/category/osborne-tire-reef/

 Negatives

- divers damaging reefs
http://www.dive.in/articles/a-scuba-divers-impact-on-a-coral-reef/
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/4314577?uid=3738032&uid=2134&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21104060715513


- over crowding and effect on environment
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320701000854

Conclusion