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Volunteer Haitian Divers Hope to Aid Ailing Coral Reef, and Themselves.
- Source :
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New York Times . 9/2/2011, Vol. 160 Issue 55516, p9. 0p. - Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- COTES DES ARCADINS, Haiti -- It was an immaculately clear midsummer morning, a perfect day for diving. No trash had yet washed up on the beach. A dozen volunteers, all excited, some a bit apprehensive, donned flippers and masks and shimmied into the bathtub-warm sea, eager to join a team of eco-divers responsible for surveying, and perhaps one day helping save, Haiti's endangered coral reefs. Only one thing stood in their way: For most of them -- like Jessika Laloi, 21 -- this was their first time swimming in the ocean. Until a few months ago, Ms. Laloi had not even known how to dog paddle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *VOLUNTEERS
*DIVERS
*CORAL reefs & islands
*UNDERWATER propulsion
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03624331
- Volume :
- 160
- Issue :
- 55516
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- New York Times
- Publication Type :
- News
- Accession number :
- 65126584