| Cave Sites:
There is a certain dilemma when providing
information about caves and caverns. On one hand, there is
the onus on us to share our discoveries, on the other, there is
the very real fear that telling the stories, revealing the
presence of caves such as the one which may be described in written
media, is the beginning of their end. That the basic, inherent,
unforgivable greed and stupidity of a
certain part of mankind will rush forward in all its vanity and
treat the caves as another plaything to be exploited.
I am pessimistic for the simple reason
that I have already seen this play in action. Playing with
caves, or treating them as toys, will destroy the very
reasons that many responsible divers venture into these
places.
Caves may and will and have taken some of their despoilers with them
for this environments suffers no fools. For millions of years
life has been surviving beneath the Bahamas. The most
unnecessary addition is man.
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Photo: Dr. Stephanie Schwabe
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