SNORKELLING OR SCUBA DIVING
- Don't touch the coral. It's alive, and you'll crush the polyps.
SWIMMING
- Apply a biodegradable sunscreen, then wait at least 15 minutes before you jump into the water. Some 20,000 tons of suntan lotion washes off beachgoers each year; the chemicals boost viruses in seawater and block the sun corals need to grow.
SAILING
- Use moorings, not anchor chains, which break coral branches.
EATING
- Avoid fish, like grouper and shark, that are caught in ways that harm other marine life. ( Get a pocket guide on the Monterey Bay Aquarium website; click on "seafood Watch.")
JEWELLERY
- Don't buy anything made from endangered coral.
GOLFING
- Tell the club manager that pesticides and fertilisers, good for fairways, are bad for coral. What happens on land does not stay on land.
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