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lapfog_1

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1. As a former scuba diving instructor

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Original post)

Tue Feb 10, 2026, 03:34 PM

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who went diving all around the Caribbean in the 1980s, I have been telling everyone that asks me about diving to "go now, right now... the corals and the fish that live there won't be around in 20 years" And I've been saying that since 2000.

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